Example sentences of "if it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strikes ended on Jan. 23 , the day on which the government rushed legislation through the People 's Assembly enshrining the right to strike , but obliging workers to give 15 days ' notice of stoppages , and authorizing the Assembly to suspend a stoppage if it threatened the national interest . |
| 2 | A new drug could become a potential blockbuster if it treated a common ailment and generated $100m-plus in annual sales ( see table ) . |
| 3 | Its leaders knew there was a serious risk of trouble if it took a mass march into Gqozo 's lair . |
| 4 | However , if an application is made to the court for an order requiring the trustee to summon a meeting to consider a resolution for his removal as trustee , the court may , if it thinks no sufficient cause has been shown for the application , dismiss it but not until after an ex parte hearing of the applicant ( r 6.132(2) ) . |
| 5 | Fortunately , one or two civil servants realise that the government could build up trouble if it allows a whole generation to grow up with a dislike for nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | If it requires a little effort from the listener , then , it is an ultimately rewarding experience , tightly and skilfully constructed , and containing passages of great beauty and spirit . |
| 7 | The procedure , if it followed the usual course , would have been this : two doctors would be taken to see her and would ask her a few questions . |
| 8 | She screwed up her face at the name as if it left a nasty taste in her mouth , adding : ‘ Ca n't abide that man . |
| 9 | In 1976 the general tenor of the Report had gained a general welcome even if it secured no specific action to strengthen local independence . |
| 10 | Labour has promised to restore Trades Union rights to workers at GCHQ in Cheltenham if it forms the next Government . |
| 11 | Southern African countries , including Zimbabwe , Botswana and South Africa , will fight any ban , and , if it achieves the required two-thirds majority , have declared they will register a CITES ‘ reservation ’ to allow elephant tusk sales to continue . |
| 12 | And if it goes the other way , and he 's called guilty of murder , then , worse , he 'll hang . ’ |
| 13 | The Whitbread brewing group was ruffled by stories it would be forced , under US legislation , to sell its US drink importing operations if it continued a trans-Atlantic restaurant build-up . |
| 14 | But that is a highly vulnerable position for any politician to take - and I doubt if it offers the whole answer . |
| 15 | He had the sort of sensitive nose that made him instantly burst into tears if it got the slightest knock . |
| 16 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 17 | The east could only overthrow colonialism if it formed a separate Colonial International to fight against it ( and , by implication , the working-class form of colonialism in the Communist party ) . |
| 18 | DARLINGTON Labour candidate Alan Milburn yesterday said his party would allow £8bn to be spent on council housing if it formed the next government . |
| 19 | The chimpanzee in the laboratory would be unlikely to solve the box-stick-and-banana problem if it had no initial interest in the bananas . |
| 20 | She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance . |
| 21 | The difficulty from the outset was that the Treasury would only give approval for mandatory awards for DipHE students if it had a two ‘ A ’ level entry . |
| 22 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 23 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 24 | There was something funny about it , as if it had a deliberate mistake you were supposed to spot or something . |
| 25 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 26 | Yes I think if it had a few |
| 27 | if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it . |
| 28 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 29 | ‘ Women and film ’ would make a great movie if it had an international , multicultural cast and would address all these questions at once . |
| 30 | They never changed the booth they sat in and they found that nobody was ever sitting in it as if it had an invisible reserved sign hanging above it . |