Example sentences of "if [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She clapped her hands together , as if dusting off the flour . |
| 32 | It must be impregnable , especially if attacked by the adherents of those long established religious beliefs that confer privileges . |
| 33 | It measures with reasonable accuracy if confined to the same subject throughout the measuring period , but this accuracy is very much reduced if the subject is changed . |
| 34 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 35 | If not in priority need , particularly if considered for the purposes of the Act to have become ‘ intentionally homeless ’ , persons may receive only advice and ‘ appropriate assistance ’ , leaving much to an authority 's discretion . |
| 36 | She felt compassionate like a mother and wanted to help him but the wheel had slowed down until its glow had died and she stood paralysed as if frozen in the aftermath of the death of the sun . |
| 37 | Coincidentally , the two young men had come creaming close into the shore , as if attracted like the small , black flies . |
| 38 | 2.15.9 such parts of the main structure walls foundations and roofs of the Centre that are not included in the Premises and that would not be included in the Premises demised by the Leases of all the other units in the Centre if let on the same terms as this Lease |
| 39 | The certificate must be signed by the transferor ( which it will be if included in the conveyance/transfer ) or by his solicitors or duly authorised agent . |
| 40 | If caught during the early weeks of pregnancy it can cause deafness , blindness and heart problems in the baby . |
| 41 | Each man in the picture was staring blankly at the photographer , a bar of soap in each hand as if caught in the act of some doubtful ritual . |
| 42 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 43 | Then she was flying off as if caught by the wind . |
| 44 | ‘ No , ’ Lucy said , and Josie reacted to the sound as if caught by the tip of a lash . |
| 45 | Now he linked corroboree , intichiuma of spring , and Crucifixion , as if to find beneath the ‘ stony places ’ of the Bible the ‘ stony places ’ of the Australian desert photographed by Spencer and Gillen and presented in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . |
| 46 | Rather — for years — he had denied himself banality , as if disbelieving in the possibility of such physical transcendence . |
| 47 | Hence , if stripping of the anal mucosa with encoanal anastomosis is used in older patients , we think that it is more likely to lead to lower anal pressures and faecal leakage after operation than the technically simpler alternative of end to end anastomosis . |
| 48 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |
| 49 | Energy radiating from one focus is reflected by a hyperbola as if to radiate from the other focus . |
| 50 | 28mm pipes leading to and from the boiler for gravity circulation , or 22mm if connected to the pumped circuit for pumped circulation |
| 51 | The decision is however profoundly unsatisfactory , not least in that two , if not three , of the members of the court attached weight to the fact that the railway company as a common carrier had sold the pregnant mother one ticket and not two — a conclusion which , if valid today , would carry the consequence that a child under three who can travel without a ticket on British Railways would have no remedy against British Railways if injured by the negligence of the British Rail employees . |
| 52 | If swallowed it kills in seconds , if absorbed through the thinner membranes in the mouth without swallowing , it kills in hours . |
| 53 | And suddenly a sharp pain as if stabbed in the gut . |
| 54 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 55 | If fed at the same time each day the fish will quickly learn to recognise their owners as a source of food and rise to the surface to be fed . |
| 56 | The head of the arrow used with it is usually barbed and if lodged inside the flesh , the shaft is liable to break off . |
| 57 | A properly-made U/V unit will clean green water in one to 14 days , and all of the units supplied should perform this task if matched to the right size of pond . |
| 58 | Nevertheless , the rapid uptake of the technology , with the implications this has for very substantial job displacement in some sectors , even if matched in the longer term by job creation elsewhere , is highly likely to create further problems for the economy and for society to handle . |
| 59 | ‘ Hand In Glove ’ , as if written in the euphoric condition of a new found love affair , holds all the ecstasy of that irrational condition with a typical defeatist twist in the tail . |
| 60 | It can be argued therefore that the restraints of Functionalism , if prepared with the genius of a Stravinsky , a Mondrian , a Nervi , a Lloyd Wright or a Corbusier permit magnificent freedom within each disciplined field . |