Example sentences of "if it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " If it happens that way , then it 's natural , " said her nephew . |
| 4 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 5 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 6 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and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 . |
| 7 | Such an experience may encourage the doctor in question to attend a course in homoeopathy to see if it deserves further study . |
| 8 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 9 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 12 | If it requires public money to sustain it , it then directly becomes a public project because the private sector have failed to achieve it . ’ |
| 13 | If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them . |
| 14 | My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week ! |
| 15 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 16 | Oxfordshire District Health Authority has confirmed it will want to buy services from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre if it achieves self-governing status . |
| 17 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 18 | It never happens completely spontaneously , even if it feels that way . |
| 19 | Indeed , he points out that traditionally the IEEE has not been swayed by big name support if it feels another technology is more meritorious . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When viewing a house we were interested in buying , we asked the owner if it had rear access . |
| 22 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 23 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 24 | UNTAC would only be successful , Boutros-Ghali stressed , if it had adequate human and financial resources . |
| 25 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 28 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 29 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 30 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |