Example sentences of "[noun] if [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 A payment will not qualify under Gift Aid if it is made to enable the charity to purchase a property , or other assets , from the donor or from a ‘ connected person ’ .
2 Nor will it do any good if it is sent to the right outlet at the wrong time .
3 replace your car if it is lost , stolen or damaged so much it would not be economical to repair it ; or
4 replace your car if it is lost , stolen or damaged so much it would not be economical to repair it ; or
5 replace your car if it is lost , stolen or damaged so much it would not be economical to repair it ; or
6 The Touring Guarantee is valid for four years from the date of purchase of a new Mercedes and is passed on with the car if it is sold during that period .
7 The unit can only be used successfully with low level inputs , such as microphones and low output guitar pick-ups if it is preceded by a suitable preamplifier .
8 The risk to the firm 's image in the financial community and the industry if it is associated with adverse criticism in a large or well-publicised transaction .
9 The risk to the firm 's image in the financial community and the industry if it is associated with adverse criticism in a large or well-publicised transaction .
10 Thus , if the landlord has elected to waive the exemption from VAT in respect of a particular building , he will not be able to add VAT to the rent if it is expressed as a single figure .
11 The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) .
12 However , this identification is only ‘ to some extent ’ , and it is easier to think of locality as a useful term in this study if it is extended , as Dickens et al.
13 If some biological constraint can rule out , or make unrealistic , some normative practice or institution , then knowledge of it may not only encourage us to decline that practice if it is suggested , but may also contribute an explanation of why human communities do not in general display that practice or institution .
14 In captivity , a good memory and fear will destroy the horse if it is handled so badly that it becomes permanently anxious .
15 This Condition can only have effect if it is called into operation by the party wishing to rely on it giving written notice to the other to that effect .
16 We have no standard conventions for representing the paralinguistic features of the utterance which are summarised as ‘ voice quality ’ , yet the effect of an utterance being said kindly and sympathetically is clearly very different from the effect if it is said brutally and harshly .
17 Inevitably , the use of the soundtrack as a radio commercial involves some loss of effect , and it seems to me that in general a radio commercial is going to have a much better chance of achieving its desired effect if it is created from scratch .
18 And it will do his own prospects no harm if he is seen attempting to make up for his failure to sign Alan Shearer in the summer .
19 What is the harm if she is driven occasionally to let go with a smack ?
20 Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence .
21 A third party right can not be revoked or modified by the parties if it is established that the right was not intended to be so revocable or modifiable without the third party 's consent .
22 The other copies of the petition and the statement of affairs are either retained by the court or forwarded to the official receiver or insolvency practitioner if one is appointed under 5 273 ( see section 7 below ) .
23 The extract reads as gobbledygook if it is read as a speech by one individual .
24 Gemma will only eat her Chum if it is sliced and made into dainty triangular sandwiches — with the crusts cut off !
25 No Botham and no Larkins , but Dean Jones sat champing at the bit and it will be a great pity if he is prevented from emptying the nearby chemistry laboratories with the prospect of his thrilling strokeplay .
26 I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place .
27 For this reason , amongst others , Reid 's recent suggestion that perhaps parents in Britain should , like those in France , lose some child benefit if it is proved that their children are truanting — ‘ Fines imposed on parents should be collected directly from child benefit ’ — deserves rejection .
28 This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) .
29 If it is a nice and finely balanced question whether the statute of wills is more consistent with traditional principles of law if it is interpreted to forbid murderers to inherit , then wrestling with that question is hardly a sensible way of deciding what most people would now favour .
30 Australian test-tube teams have been freezing spare embryos since the programme began in 1981 — partly to avoid having to throw unwanted ones away — raising questions ranging from the ownership of the frozen embryo to who pays compensation if it is damaged .
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