Example sentences of "if you [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With most birds , unless they 're very stubborn , if you increase the distance between perch and glove , little by little , they will readily fly the extra distance .
2 Surely if you increase the fee from £200 to £600 you may severely suffer from overkill , as I have recently witnessed in my voluntary work for another organisation .
3 If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward .
4 So if you increase the amount of oxygen present , what happens then ?
5 And again you see if you increase the load , can you take up both , back pick them up again .
6 If you situate the cable tidy as close to your tank as possible , you can cut the wires on your equipment fairly short , to get rid of all those unsightly trailing cables .
7 And if you 're playing a tape back which was recorded off air what happens if you push the text button ?
8 If you push the lever down and leave it there the flaps will reach their maximum angle and the selector will automatically jump back into neutral so that the hydraulic circuit can idle .
9 If you repaid the advance , I 'm sure they 'd let you off the hook . ’
10 Perhaps it is more courageous to break a promise if it means salvaging the economy , especially — and here cynicism rears its head too — if you stack the odds in favour of a pre-election tax give-away .
11 ( If you doubt the maths do remember that slides have to be processed at around £3.00 per roll and then mounted at around 20p per slide . )
12 Claims of up to £1,000 can be made in the small claims court , but in larger , more unusual cases you 'll probably need a solicitor whose fees will be paid by the hairdresser if you win the case .
13 Who goes first if you win the toss ?
14 Miners ' leaders committed to the baths heeded the advice of a mining engineer at the Royal Commission which resulted in the 1911 act , whose advice was : if you win the women to the cause of pithead baths you will win the baths .
15 You do n't get a cup if you win the league in first division do you ?
16 In addition to the above methods of Review/ Recall it will be found both enjoyable and informative if you cultivate the habit of discussing reading with friends and teachers .
17 Yes , but Trading Standards are part of Public Protection , and if you lump the whole of Public Protection , you do n't get five percent do you ?
18 If you shake the box , the pieces will take up another arrangement .
19 For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time .
20 Is , if you catch the joke ,
21 Er if you catch the corner of the bannister just as you 're going by , usually have a wrapper over anyway , but i it it is n't going to damage .
22 Also , if you catch the doc in a bad mood and he or she hears you taking the mickey , there are lots of particularly nasty cures which can be prescribed , such as :
23 In any case , the essential point is that the government 's running costs greatly exceed its income , if you exclude the money gained from selling fishing licences .
24 And if you exclude the points of discontinuity , then the bits in between often from minus infinity up to plus infinity
25 If you use the stake itself to make the hole , you could easily split it .
26 But if you use the function who is responsible for doing then you can often find out who .
27 ‘ Not in a laboratory , if you use the word to mean a place full of test tubes and retorts and animals in cages .
28 If you use the word conc you 're just meaning your nose .
29 Each proprietary brand of locator has its accompanying transmitter and it must be said that in all four instances these work better if you use the manufacturer 's pairing rather than permutating among the ones available .
30 If you use the art lesson to check school meal monies , or mark your books , and leave the children to get on , you will not be teaching this subject well ; and the children will suffer and so will their work .
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