Example sentences of "[conj] if [art] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 According to section 15 of the 1982 Act , if the union is sued for inducing breach of or interfering with contract , or for intimidation by threats to interfere with contract , or for conspiracy to commit these torts , then the act in question shall be taken to have been done by the union only if it was authorised or endorsed by a ‘ responsible person , ’ which means the principal executive committee , any person authorised by the rules to endorse acts of the kind in question , the president or general secretary , any other employed official , or any committee to which an employed official reports , but an act by an official or a committee to which he reports shall not be taken as authorised or endorsed if the official or committee was prevented from authorising or endorsing the act by union rules or if the act has been repudiated by the president or general secretary .
2 Third party security taken by creditors would be impeachable on account of misrepresentation or undue influence by the debtor only if the creditor had knowledge of the relevant facts or if the debtor had been acting as the agent of the creditor .
3 Or if the horse has been jabbed in the mouth when it is being mounted , it goes on expecting pain in the mouth whenever it is mounted .
4 This process may take 20 years or more to complete , and is more pronounced if natural dyes have been used or if the rug has been exposed to direct sunlight .
5 It would have been different if the trapdoor had been the actual door of the furnace ; or if the coffin had been dragged by visible human operatives ; or if it had gone smoothly , as by the hand of God or the power of irresistible mechanical principles .
6 Polemis ( N.C. , 1974 ) the court held that if a person had been given insufficient time , an adjournment must be granted .
7 ‘ Oh , they 've just got plastic bows and arrows , ’ said Tess , ‘ but we reckon that if a burglar 's been squirted with ammonia and slashed with a sword and pelted with ball-bearings and wooden balls his resistance is going to be pretty low by the time he reaches the kids ’ bedroom , do n't you think ? ’
8 Note that if a package has been marked for processing it is also read out since the file name chosen by the package at this level may be different from that chosen by the package at the next level .
9 But it might well be thought that if a procession has been regularly held even for such a comparatively short period of time , the police are aware that it is likely to take place , and it is therefore outside the rationale behind the advance notification requirement .
10 The argument goes that if an issue has been over-subscribed , people who come in late already know that it has been a success and are therefore cutting down their risk .
11 It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production .
12 It is now clear that if the scheme had been adopted it would have had disastrous results .
13 It is plain that if the judge had been appraised of all these matters now before the court , he would have come to the same conclusion as we have , namely that the necessary intention had not been proved on the part of the appellants .
14 This means that if the cheque has been stolen or obtained by fraud , they will have to suffer the loss if they accept it .
15 The very existence of Article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory , on the rather tortuous argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States , acceptance of Article 23 ( which enables other States to refuse to operate the Convention in this area ) ‘ would have been most anomalous ’ .
16 Dexter guessed that if the conversation had been in private , Blanche would have said , ‘ He sat down and opened a bottle of Bollinger ‘ 59 actually — what do you think ? ’
17 Effectively , this means that if the file has been ‘ cut ’ into m sections , the effective packing density of the file — from the point of view of records colliding and causing synonyms — is :
18 This requires him to prove that if the information had been given , his decision as to treatment would have been different .
19 The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited .
20 We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work .
21 This is not to say that if the situation had been different then it would still be true that if all of either had not existed , then if the other had not , the effect would not have occurred .
22 Show that if the tax employed is proportional , there is unanimous agreement on , where Y denotes the mean .
23 Accept the fact that some buyers will inevitably respond negatively , but be confident that more will buy than if no close had been used .
24 Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters .
25 If this happened , the universe would be in an unstable state , with more energy than if the symmetry had been broken .
26 Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received .
27 Has a deal been struck ? and if a deal has been struck , what do you feel it might be ? and do you really mind , as long as these people have been released ?
28 At 0430 there are no civilians about , and if a bomb had been planted this would be an ideal time to detonate it .
29 These are tiny freedoms , and if a woman enjoys being part of a couple , they should count for nothing .
30 Sandys ’ proposed deployment of the Army might have been practicable if Afro-Asia had remained quiescent , and if the Army had been given the strategic mobility needed to compensate for its reduction in manpower .
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