Example sentences of "[conj] if it [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can claim other defences as well : for example , if you need the blade or point for work , or if it is necessary to carry it for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 2 | Or if it is impossible to do so then we will have to have a look . |
| 3 | However , if it is necessary to follow the child around from one room to another , or if it is desirable to record a child with other children or with more than one adult present , then it is advisable to use a radio microphone which can be attached to the child 's clothing . |
| 4 | Put them in the top half of a double saucepan with the sugar , and steam them ( or if it is easier bake them in a covered jar in a low oven ) until they are quite soft . |
| 5 | As he wrote to Eulalia , abbess of Shaftesbury : ‘ I am so harassed in the archbishopric that if it were possible to do so without guilt , I would rather die than continue in it ’ . |
| 6 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 7 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |
| 8 | The libido was then regarded as a kind of emotional torrent , that if it was frustrated underwent a pathological transformation into anxiety . |
| 9 | J.D. had told Sally-Anne Tunstall that if it was inconvenient to visit him she could always post her column to him ; he had seen her growing more and more responsible as the weeks went by , and he was no longer so worried about her safety . |
| 10 | increase agreement reached at the end of June , 1973 , and if it be right to regard this as having been reached under a kind of duress in the form of economic pressure , then what is said in Chitty on Contracts ( 24th ed. ) , para. 442 , to which both counsel referred me , is relevant , namely that a contract entered into under duress is voidable and not void |
| 11 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 12 | I feel you should pick and choose your events carefully , do not run each weekend and if it is hard do not go too fast . |
| 13 | This will tell you if the glider has an obvious stall buffet and if it is likely to drop a wing during a stall when thermalling . |
| 14 | Children are people , not property , they argue ; and if it is wrong to hit people then it must also be wrong to hit children . |
| 15 | And if it is advantageous to do so now , is there a point in the future when it may not be . |
| 16 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 17 | ‘ If I felt there was a part that he could play and he felt he could play it — and if it was reasonable to ask him — I would bear that in mind . |
| 18 | At a meeting in mid-September , the government indicated that if IFAW were able to increase income from international ecotourism involving the seals and if it were willing to provide for independent assistance with additional research on the interactions between Cape fur seals and fisheries , it too would be willing to consider announcing a moratorium on the killing of seals , perhaps as early as 1 January 1992 . |
| 19 | When investing offspring , when investing offspring results in increased males stay together , but if it is possible to reach by deserting a partner , then the individual is likely to be erm you ca n't decide on based on potential opportunities made parental investment . |
| 20 | But if it is desirable to assign a property to an entity , then that will far more frequently , although not invariably , be needed precisely when the property is not an inherent quality of the entity in question ; further , this will especially be so when the property is tied to some particular event — hence the high incidence of present and past participles among postnominals . |
| 21 | The ‘ unit of desire ’ however , is admitted to be a presumption , but if it were possible to prove with scientific exactitude that it really existed then it would not be within the province of religion at all , but of science . |
| 22 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 23 | you see if it was a fine stand crop you could cut quite a bit but if it was all raffled it took a while . |
| 24 | But if it was difficult to keep racism on it , it was impossible to even breathe the word heterosexism . |
| 25 | And see whether or not there is basis for an agreement on that because if it is possible to get an agreement on that it is infinitely easier to persuade the government that regulations have to be written which cover all of these issues and cover all of the sectors and that therefore makes it easier to create a situation in which it is not possible for an independent company that wish to ignore the good practice guidelines to simply go ahead and do so . |
| 26 | No , I 'm , I 'm talking about building inspectors , because if it was supposed to have been retained , and they demolished it , and used it , you know , in another way , and not , not built it back . |
| 27 | For if it is meaningful to say in respect of something " the same A " , it must equally be meaningful to say " not the same A " , " a different A " . |