Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb -s] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 2 | If she fails this test he 's allowed to send her packing and make a public announcement saying why . |
| 3 | If one relates this position to citation studies in the humanities which show that well over 50% of books cited have imprint dates up to 35 years ago and earlier , the increasing tendency to search only the OPAC , and ignore the card catalogue is doing a major disservice to scholars and their potential exploitation of the resources of research libraries . |
| 4 | If one rejects this authenticity condition , then one has to find ways of presenting comprehension tasks so that the learner 's interest is engaged in spite of the artificiality , so that they are induced into co-operating with the contrivance . |
| 5 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 6 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 7 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 8 | If one integrates this thinking with the concepts underlying the SBU portfolio grids in strategic analysis , and especially if a successful cost-leadership and limit-pricing policy such as described earlier in this chapter is being pursued , one might expect to see a product ( SBU ) shift from ‘ Fine tuning ’ , through ‘ Pursue ’ , ‘ Awaken ’ , ‘ Scramble ’ and ‘ Salvage ’ , over the product life-cycle . |
| 9 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 10 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 11 | If one knows this bridge , it also puts one ‘ in the picture ’ suspended there over the Thames . |
| 12 | It is interesting to speculate , if one accepts this classification , on the evolution of functions in each human individual . |
| 13 | If one accepts this interpretation then the third-person form would not have the negative connotations defined so sharply by John Lyons . |
| 14 | Even if one accepts this view of the social role of a doctrine of justice , and gives it the priority Rawls assigns to it , his conclusions are not supported by his arguments for at least three reasons . |
| 15 | If one accepts this point , that effective democratic mechanisms within the enterprise may depend , in many branches of production , on having a relatively restricted number of agents involved in decision-making , then a rather awkward question arises : does enterprise democracy then come into conflict with the exploitation of economies of scale and the progressive development of the productive forces ? |
| 16 | What 's more , if anybody leaves this house , it wo n't be me and it wo n't be Ben . |
| 17 | I would suggest if anybody has this problem , they drill the heads off as you would a rivet , punch the nail in a little and fill in then with the appropriate filler . |
| 18 | The G M B if it passes this motion we welcoming a proposal to extend majority voting in the Council of Ministers to new areas . |
| 19 | If it exercises this power , the purchaser acquires good title , notwithstanding any claim by the original owner — Sale of Goods Act , section 21(2) ( b ) . |
| 20 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 21 | If he loses this case he could face a jail sentence . |
| 22 | But that could mean that he never sings again if he loses this case . |
| 23 | If he gains this custodianship from the Earl of Cornwall , he will be master of a third part of Wales . |
| 24 | If he chooses this method , the landlord may serve a late notice , but the tenant will not be able to serve a late break notice . |
| 25 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 26 | ‘ If he has this horse he has a chance . |
| 27 | And Guy Husband , he 's new to the Sovbloc desk ; if he pulls this offin his first few months , he could become a living legend . ’ |
| 28 | If a tenant takes only an upper floor of a building and has no more than a right to use the entrance hall for the purposes of approaching the property demised he must stipulate for the right to put a nameplate outside the property ( other than that part demised to him ) if he desires this convenience ( Berry ( Frederick ) Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland [ 1949 ] 1 KB 619 per Lord Goddard CJ at 621 ) . |