Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best policies will also provide transport to another resort if yours has insufficient snow . |
| 2 | If she wants public disgrace she can have it . " |
| 3 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 4 | There are advantages in transferring the investments to your wife altogether so that the income arises to her if she has spare allowances , or if you are in the age allowance trap and she is not . |
| 5 | With regard to your pony , if she has creamy/mealy muzzle and eyes and light in colour on an otherwise dark coat , she is definitely an Exmoor . |
| 6 | If she has deep-set eyes her porte feminine is bound to be deep too … if a woman has a pair of big , sparkling eyes , her porte feminine is narrow at its entrance , and yet roomy in the inner part … |
| 7 | If it produces poor results , it is surely legitimate to make changes . |
| 8 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 9 | If the EEA intervenes to support sterling ( i.e. if it sells foreign currencies and buys sterling ) then the receipt of sterling by the Bank will act to drain market liquidity . |
| 10 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 11 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 12 | Even a small reduction in the susceptibility of a crop to a pest can be important , especially if it complements other control techniques in an IPM programme . |
| 13 | If it requires public money to sustain it , it then directly becomes a public project because the private sector have failed to achieve it . ’ |
| 14 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 15 | Oxfordshire District Health Authority has confirmed it will want to buy services from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre if it achieves self-governing status . |
| 16 | A museum will be able to register as a ‘ museum of France ’ if it respects certain rules concerning the management of its collections and the level of service given to the public . |
| 17 | Such responsibilities as education and social services are carried out by North Yorkshire County Council but could become those of Richmondshire if it wins unitary status under any local government changes . |
| 18 | This means that the Bank of England can not be sure of success if it uses open-market operations to expand the money supply . |
| 19 | ‘ I accept the recommendation that the licences should not be revoked , but if it becomes public knowledge that the tools are to be used to make munitions , deliveries would have to stop at once . |
| 20 | Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook . |
| 21 | By the third year , the young orang is much more venturesome and will leave its mother for short spells , especially if it meets other youngsters who are willing to play . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 23 | The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point … |
| 24 | In his refreshing book Mr Veseth looks at Victorian Britain , which improved on Florence 's commercial ideas , particularly public debt , and also went into decline ; and at present-day America , which is deeply in debt but might , he argues , avoid decline if it takes brave decisions . |
| 25 | One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow . |
| 26 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |
| 27 | The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements . |
| 28 | How near is your proposed venue to airports ( if it involves international visitors ) , and the road and rail links . |
| 29 | Not only is this desirable as a means of restricting monetary growth , but , if it involves cutting government expenditure ( as opposed to increasing taxes ) , it will also increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector and it is the private sector that monetarists see as the main source of long-term growth in output and employment . |
| 30 | ‘ The only way that 's going to happen is if it receives wholehearted support from the clubs , ’ he said . |