Example sentences of "if a [noun] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motability is a registered charity and if a person can not meet the full cost of putting a car on the road , including any adaptations , Motability may be able to provide some financial help from special funds . |
| 2 | If a farmer can not raise more than 30 cwt. of wheat per acre , when more successful farmers are averaging twice that , it would be far wiser to use the land for other , more profitable , purposes . |
| 3 | But , as several dealers told The Art Newspaper , waiving exhibition fees is a concession which makes little difference if a gallery can not make sufficient sales to recoup costs estimated at £10,000–40,000 for taking stock and staff to Madrid . |
| 4 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 5 | If a government can not bring itself to introduce a completely free market for foreign exchange ( at least for current transactions ) , there are many possible alternative policies . |
| 6 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 7 | If a member can not carry out work for which a deposit has been paid , the fund will either ensure the work is carried out at a fair price less the deposit or refund the deposit . |
| 8 | 1.3 However , RSC Ord 38 and CCR Ord 20 are expressed to be subject to the Civil Evidence Act 1968 ( see Appendix B ) under which hearsay evidence in documents can be put in at trial if a party can not call the witness . |
| 9 | It arises directly out of the " no conflict " rule , of which it is a logical consequence ; if a director can not keep the benefit he would obtain were he to take advantage of his position , he will not be tempted to take advantage . |
| 10 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 11 | If a city can not dispose of its sewage properly , it will pollute water , and negate any progress made on that front . |