Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To remedy these distressing conditions , UNO has calculated that if every country , rich and poor , gave 0.7 per cent of its gross national product , world poverty could be banished in a generation . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the Council for the Protection of Rural England has claimed that if the Treasury refuse to " foot the bill " then the government 's " environmental credibility will plummet " . |
| 3 | We have heard the ultimate nonsense from the hon. Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) , who has said that if a Labour Government order a fourth boat they will not put any warheads on it . |
| 4 | The British Medical Association has said that if the legislation does require authorities to keep to drug budgets , the association will see that as a cash limit and cry ‘ foul ’ after accepting assurances from Mr Clarke last week that budgets would not operate as cash limits . |
| 5 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 6 | The analysis of Section 7.3.1 has shown that if the torque producing capability of the stepping motor is to be maximised over the full speed range the switching angle must be made speed-dependent . |
| 7 | Will she tell some of her hon. Friends that a recent independent study has shown that if the basis of representation in Scotland were equated with that in England , the Conservative party in Scotland would cease to be an endangered species and become an extinct species ? |
| 8 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 9 | Experience has shown that if the distinction between these two is reinforced at every opportunity students are very soon comfortable with the difference between assets and expenses and can relate to new and unusual situations . |
| 10 | A study by the Edinburgh-based economic consultancy , Pieda , has shown that if the duty rate per degree of alcohol was raised on wine and lowered on whisky ( and other spirits ) , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks that would maintain the total tax take would be nearer the wine rate than the spirits rate as wine ( and beer ) account for 76 per cent of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 11 | None the less , it has concluded that if the backlog is to be eliminated there will need to be a similar increase in the recurrent baseline , which represents a substantial commitment of university funding . |
| 12 | The real ale group CAMRA has warned that if the Greene King bid is successful they 'll have to pay another six pence for a pint of their favourite beer . |
| 13 | And Chief Constable David Graham has warned that if the Government does not provide extra money , drastic steps will have to be taken . |
| 14 | The ADATH policy of rejecting all non Jewish offers to help assumed that if the RCM took an equally hard line , the faithful would rise to the challenge . |
| 15 | He may have agreed that if the goods were in existence he would acquire the ownership of them and if they were not in existence he would get nothing but that in either event he would pay the price . |
| 16 | The votes apportioned as provided in paragraph ( b ) above shall be totalled and the candidate receiving more than half of the votes shall be declared elected and if no candidate reaches this total on the first ballot further ballots should be held on an elimination basis . |
| 17 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 18 | I suppose I ought to have realized that if a boy could do that , then he would n't be open with anyone else . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure your wrong , ’ said Anna , but she remembered how Maria Jakob had said that if the money was not forthcoming she must think of something else , a way to make up to her for Melusina 's death , and she had not meant a donation to the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 20 | In 1924 Einstein had said that if the ideas , then in the air , of renouncing strict causality proved to be correct he would " rather be a cobbler , or even an employee in a gambling house , than a physicist " . |
| 21 | Held , allowing the appeal , the problem was considered in Mann ( 1972 ) 56 Cr.App.R. 750 where Lord Widgery C.J. had said that if an accused remained silent in response to every question it might well be that the evidence of the onesided dialogue should not be admitted . |
| 22 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 23 | I think we should look at parking spaces , because in the past we 've felt that if the universities and colleges have parking spaces we let them bring the traffic in the City . |
| 24 | The LEA had argued that if a particular type of educational provision was generally available to children of the applicant 's age in their schools , then it was not a special educational provision . |
| 25 | Dicey had feared that if the use of administrative tribunals was extended and regularized , particularly if judicial review were excluded , Britain would rapidly develop an independent and formalized system of administrative law . |
| 26 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 27 | He had indicated that if the PSD failed to secure a majority at least as big as that obtained in 1987 , he would refuse to form a new government or a coalition . |
| 28 | Cooperative women have realised that if the principle ‘ Each for all and all for each ’ is good in their shopping , it is equally good in production , in education , and in the affairs of the nation and of the world . |
| 29 | Some of those close to the Prime Minister have argued that if the artificial barrier posed by exchange controls were removed , the French franc and Italian lira would be forced to face the reality of the free market . |
| 30 | ‘ I am disheartened by C&A 's corporate clothing attitude and have decided that if the sleeve of my record must remain blank then I shall boycott C&A from now on , and my feet and bottom will remain bare until we settle this like grown men . ’ |