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Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] if " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act .
2	As he is also chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors and regularly speaks at conferences and meetings , his timetable requires the skills of a juggler if not actually a magician !
3	The court may expunge or vary a proof which has been admitted either upon the application of the trustee or of a creditor if the trustee declines to interfere ( r 6.107 ) .
4	Alternatively , customers are requested to pay first , with the offer of a refund if the program proves unsuitable .
5	Is it best to do sort of a say if a question , Which accent do you not like ?
6	Dick does n't follow him in fact he thinks the bloke is trying to get off with him which is a bit of a laugh if you 've seen the Indian women , until the Indian runs off and fetches Miguel who 's one of the guides .
7	The offer is , apparently , to refund 20% of a fare if a train is more than an hour late .
8	It is true that embalming improves the appearance of a corpse if it is to be viewed by friends and relations .
9	Be a bit of a bastard if he pulls back .
10	As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance .
11	The rib transfer needle can be damaged and , even though it can be easily replaced , it is less of a nuisance if you can avoid damaging it .
12	‘ As a starting point we would like to see some sort of voluntary test similar to the German system which would then give anglers a discount on the cost of a licence if they passed , ’ added Robin .
13	er and then just put some er on bottom of a dish if you put a mixture
14	Even if advance disclosure is made , further disclosure may be necessary at the time of a transaction if an actual conflict arises .
15	A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) .
16	The verdicts are implicitly defining what is appropriate behaviour for women and suggesting that they do not have much of a safeguard if they stray into areas regarded as ‘ male territory ’ whether it be a barracks room or a street late at night .
17	‘ We wo n't stand much of a chance if a shell lands near or on this trench , ’ I remarked apprehensively .
18	There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons .
19	It 's so much easier to leave a child in the hands of a babysitter if you know that he or she will go to bed without fuss .
20	A unilateral right to require a dispute about the rent to be referred to arbitration is " an agreement to refer future disputes to arbitration " ( Arbitration Act 1950 , s27 ; Pitallis v Sherefettin [ 1986 ] QB 868 ) and the court has power to extend the time for service of a counternotice if undue hardship would otherwise result ( ibid ) .
21	leverosatory rotating to the left you find these this prefix appearing in front of a name if it 's the compound is optically active .
22	Others take ‘ child-centred ’ — a sniper 's victim of a concept if ever there was one — to mean that there should be no necessary variety in the diet .
23	It might be too much of a shock if we burst in on them without any warning . ’
24	The idea that we might feel , that we might be angry , that we might care , that we might even have what are disparagingly known as ‘ gut feelings ’ rather than hard scientific evidence , is held to be something of a problem if you are an environmentalist on the road to success .
25	A separate toilet is ideal because , if you do have people to stay , it is less of a problem if one wants to go to the toilet while someone else is having a bath .
26	Fallen leaves in autumn/early winter should not be that much of a problem if you have sited your pond away from deciduous trees , but often we have to make compromises , especially if space is limited .
27	It is less of a problem if the camcorder microphone is an unidirectional type , that is one which will tend to accept sound which is coming from the camera direction only .
28	It is not an easy thing to get rid of a body by dumping it in the sea , except from a boat , Of course it is less of a problem if you have access to a pier or a jetty , but most such places are public and liable to be overlooked , even at night .
29	This is less of a problem if team-teaching is a possibility .
30	The judge would be empowered to grant immediate bail to the defendant if the crimes were those of illegal possession of arms and criminal conspiracy , or to free him or her a year after the start of a trial if sentence had yet to be passed .