Example sentences of "if an [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an insect walks by , she grabs it and instantly drags it inside the tunnel . |
| 2 | If an automatic had been used the cartridge cases should be there . |
| 3 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
| 4 | This principle would be breached if an organisation sold information to a third party after collecting the information purely on the registered basis of an internal purpose of the organisation . |
| 5 | If an organisation does not , either by accident or design , choose one of these approaches , them its performance will suffer . |
| 6 | Thus , if an organisation chooses not to recognise its e-mail messages as having formal record status and its procedures accurately reflect this , then they would not be records and vice versa . |
| 7 | IT FELT as if an earthquake had just hit the City . |
| 8 | If an earthquake happens in , let us say , Timbuctoo , and it is a very strong earthquake which shakes erm towns in surrounding areas perhaps sort of fifty miles away erm that is clearly a disaster of one sort or another . |
| 9 | ‘ If an athlete does not like our rules , he plays tennis or rides a bike . |
| 10 | Ultimately , it does n't matter how well a band 's guitarist plays , if an act does n't have good songs they will go nowhere . |
| 11 | I believe that if an act wants to run a fan club , it should be a service rather than a profit-making enterprise . |
| 12 | His head lifted sharply as if an idea had struck him . |
| 13 | All his life Eddie would stop if an idea came to him , even in the middle of the road ; in the First World War shortsighted Dilly tried to become a night-time despatch rider , claiming that in the dark there was no difference between good sight and bad . |
| 14 | The same applies if an Australian says : ‘ Do n't come the raw prawns on me . |
| 15 | If an underwriter incurs a Rule 9 obligation unexpectedly , for example as a result of an inability to sub-underwrite all or part of his liability , the Panel should also be consulted ( see para 8.5 below ) . |
| 16 | If an underwriter incurs a Rule 9 obligation unexpectedly , for example as a result of an inability to sub-underwrite all or part of his liability , the Panel should be consulted ( see para 8.5 below ) . |
| 17 | If an explosion occurs owing to the escape of gas , it does not seem to have been suggested that the defences of common benefit or consent of the plaintiff would be available to the defendants , possibly because the plaintiff has no choice as to the source of his supply of gas , whereas in other cases he can decide for himself whether he will accept the arrangement offered to him by his landlord . |
| 18 | If an experimenter makes a few fish in the school distinctive , the predator should take more notice of them . |
| 19 | If an abseiler becomes entangled and stuck during an abseil then the only remedy is for the instructor to cut the rope at the top . |
| 20 | If an individual faced with a higher level of benefits out of work relative to expected income in work will be more choosy in job selection , the actual magnitude of the effects of these benefits on the behaviour of the unemployed becomes important to policy makers . |
| 21 | According to this controversial doctrine , it is theft of confidential information if an individual uses nonpublic information for his own personal benefit in breach of any duty . |
| 22 | Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable . |
| 23 | Then , on average , if an individual fights many contests in a lifetime , a dove wins W÷2 from its fights with other doves . |
| 24 | If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition . |
| 25 | If an individual works longer hours than he or she would wish to do in the absence of taxation , that involves a loss of welfare . |
| 26 | If an individual relies upon word-decoding skills and spelling-to-sound correspondences when reading , then the appearance of words which disobey the GPC rules will cause disruption . |
| 27 | If an individual has problems at a particular stage he or she tends to regress to an earlier stage and to be dominated , or fixated , by the behaviour and attitudes of that stage . |
| 28 | Bellsdyke unit requires nursing staff to inform medical staff and the ICN if three or more patients have symptoms of enteric illness , or if an individual has diarrhoea for longer than a day . |
| 29 | If an individual has suffered grievance at the hands of the administration , he may be able to obtain redress through the courts . |
| 30 | This means that if an individual provides an opportunity to his trust to make a gain and the trust makes a gain the individual can be taxed under s776 . |