Example sentences of "if it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reasonable guide will be if it produces results near to or better than those predicted by equation ( 6.3 ) . |
| 2 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 3 | If it says diamonds they 're real . |
| 4 | However , it will presumably be rare that a business can be held not to be acting in the course of business if it sells goods on its standard terms . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 6 | On those assumptions the state can be neutral only if it creates conditions of equal opportunities for people to choose any conception of the good , with an equal prospect of realizing it . |
| 7 | If it curbs strikes , fight it and if it creates jobs spurn it . |
| 8 | Parliament adopted regulations in late August 1990 which a required foreign publication to obtain an annual permit if more than 300 copies were distributed in Singapore or if it carried articles on politics " in any country in south-east Asia " . |
| 9 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 10 | If it uses weapons of mass destruction against our [ Arab ] nation , we will use against it the weapons of mass destruction in our possession [ see p. 37390 ] . " |
| 11 | Making a pressed flower picture as a way of welcoming someone into their new home is both a charming and original idea , especially if it uses flowers from their previous garden . |
| 12 | Colin Chapman , however , had his doubts and was convinced that if it had barriers around it , similar to those at Monaco , Clark would never have died . |
| 13 | Even if it had maggots and things in it and it was all horrible ? ’ |
| 14 | Then it would presumably spot some potential prey and come to a standstill in mid-air as if it had brakes . |
| 15 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 16 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 17 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 18 | Known as the Intrastat system , the data can be submitted by a computerised medium but only if it meets Customs specification requirements and has prior approval . |
| 19 | It will affect his livelihood if it turns sponsors away . |
| 20 | Panamanian commercial lawyers said that such a treaty should be resisted if it contained clauses covering tax evasion , as this would destroy the country 's off-shore banking sector [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 21 | If there is a real question of law , particularly if it involves matters analogous to or the same as issues of the general law , I can see no reasonable justification for refusing judicial review . |
| 22 | This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas . |
| 23 | The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it . |
| 24 | If it curbs strikes , fight it and if it creates jobs spurn it . |
| 25 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 26 | Barak hated violence , especially if it involved guns . |
| 27 | Well we can start off with the top one hundred companies and allocate them like that if you want , if it makes things easier rather |
| 28 | ‘ If it makes things easier for you I won t come in . ’ |
| 29 | The bank , Britain 's sixth biggest , will breach its agreement with staff if it makes workers compulsorily redundant , said BIFU . |
| 30 | I can confirm , however , that the company would not have won this order except as a private sector yard which will have to incur the costs if it makes losses . |