Example sentences of "[verb] if the [noun sg] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How will you know if the blood is coming from er an artery that 's cut ? |
| 2 | Clearly such a point will have come if the child is seeking to refuse treatment in circumstances which will in all probability lead to the death of the child or to severe permanent injury . |
| 3 | Early weaning is only recommended if the baby is suffering quite badly and you have exhausted all other possibilities . |
| 4 | imagine if the family is meeting round a table , and the dish is passed round , and the children are not allowed to take any . |
| 5 | If the casual worker can not make himself available for the full length of time requested , he is unlikely to be offered the assignment , although exceptions will be made if the organisation is facing a tight labour market and can only cover its manpower requirements by bringing in " part-timers " . |
| 6 | A lot are waiting to see if the sun is going to shine , ’ said general manager . |
| 7 | I am just going to see if the cook is attending to the vegetables . ’ |
| 8 | Check to see if the heart is beating . |
| 9 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 10 | It has been said that an order of mandamus ought not to he made if the respondent is doing all it reasonably can to remedy its breach of duty . |
| 11 | The frequency changes as the train passes and the high note is when the train is coming towards us and the low one when the train is going away , and you get the same effect with light except that instead of being high and low it 's blue shifted if the object is coming towards us and red if it 's going away . |
| 12 | Eventually the blades will take on sufficient pitch to windmill the engine and provoke a normal start but there can be anxious moments , wondering if the elastic is going to wind up while the starter motor slaves away . |
| 13 | ‘ I was wondering if the analyst is taking it out of him . ’ |
| 14 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 15 | A swing can only occur if the tail is sliding sideways over the ground . |
| 16 | A person dealing with an administrative receiver in good faith is not bound to inquire if the receiver is acting within his powers . |
| 17 | The results will indicate if the child is learning from the intervention . |
| 18 | However , in the absence of factual information , we can only say that there is no scientific evidence for the theory that carp can tell if the food is doing them good and will , therefore , prefer this to what has delightfully been described as a crap bait . |
| 19 | States must also be defined if the model is replacing another model for the same class , type and subtype to define all those states defined by the old model . |
| 20 | However , I wonder if the Institute is using a different version of FRS 1 from mine . |
| 21 | She said something along the lines of : ‘ It 's all very worrying — I 've got a lot of them on my staff , you know — and I wonder if the Government is doing enough . ’ |
| 22 | As I neurotically double-check if the tape is running , I mutter by way of apology , ‘ I 've had some bad experiences with tape recorders . ’ |
| 23 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 24 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |