Example sentences of "if [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy-makers and commentators in many countries of the world have often assumed that small farmers and peasants in mountainous and/or environmentally degraded areas will abandon their hillside plots if given other opportunities elsewhere , so that the state by various means can ease population pressure on steep slopes by encouraging or at least not inhibiting colonisation of new areas . |
| 2 | If given good conditions , most plants will grow erect and above the water surface and even flower . |
| 3 | Sample tasks include asking what 3-D shapes would be made if given 2-D nets were folded up and asking for an interpretation of a 2-D diagram of a model made from cubes . |
| 4 | The function of the male is the guard the territory and to keep all intruders away ; meanwhile the female — or females , as males will maintain a harem if given several females — tends the eggs and wrigglers , and is responsible for their immediate safety when they emerge from the cave . |
| 5 | Trigonafulviventris usually forages alone but , if rewarded several times at a site , will bring recruits , their number dependent on the molar concentrations of sucrose — the first bee marking the surroundings with an oily pheromone from its mandibular gland . |
| 6 | The balance should then be forwarded direct to the hotel , though if contacted some hotels do not require full payment in advance — this is entirely at the hotel 's discretion . |
| 7 | If asked 10 years or so ago I would have said Pseudotropheus elegans , Ps. livingstonii , Ps. lanisticola , and an undescribed species ( still ) known as Ps. ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ . |
| 8 | If elected local authorities are fit to draw up development plans and to judge the vast majority of planning applications , it would be odd to say that they were not fit to judge their own development proposals . |
| 9 | If repeated endoscopic attempts failed , emergency operation was performed . |