Example sentences of "if an [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If an error occurs the user will be given another two opportunities to correct the situation ; if the third attempt is also unsuccessful , the user will be returned immediately to VMS . |
| 2 | It may follow Aconite if an attack returns the next morning . |
| 3 | But if an entrepreneur perceives the possibility of gaining profit by offering to buy at a price attractive to sellers and by offering to sell at a price attractive to buyers , the opportunities he thus offers to the market can in principle be made available by anyone . |
| 4 | If an employee refuses the offer of another identical job he loses redundancy entitlement . |
| 5 | Some employers insist that if an employee leaves the job for any reason within a specified time limit after moving overseas , all or part of the relocation expenses must be repaid . |
| 6 | If an employee leaves the company for any reason whatsoever , the mortgage allowance will cease immediately . |
| 7 | The Conservative party has not understood that in Wales , Scotland and the north of England , it is the opposition , even if an opposition wielding the powers of the state . |
| 8 | If an employer infringes the law , resulting in an employee being sued for this infringement , the employee can require the employer to pay any damages . |
| 9 | If an agency has the power or duty to foster ties with Europe pursuant to 1992 , and has the power to award licences or grants , would a refusal to renew such a licence or award a grant to a firm with anti-European sympathies be an infringement of the principle of legal certainty ? |
| 10 | They know that if an item has the Royal Navy 's endorsement it is bound to be of good quality . |
| 11 | Its body colour is exactly that of its food plant , but if an intruder shakes the branch and alarms it , the caterpillar suddenly lifts its head from its meal , exposing a scarlet face . |
| 12 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 13 | Previously , if an applicant preferred the services of his own solicitor to those of his Union 's solicitors , then he had freedom of choice . |
| 14 | But behaviours are only consistently followed by predictable outcomes under certain conditions — for example , the child 's request for a drink is followed by a drink only if an adult hears the child 's request . |
| 15 | The patent licensing , know-how , franchising , motor vehicle , and research and development block exemptions also provide a special ‘ opposition ’ procedure whereby if an agreement satisfying the basic requirements of the exemption , and not containing any black clauses , but containing other restrictions on competition is notified to the Commission and not opposed by the Commission within six months of notification , exemption will automatically be conferred . |