Example sentences of "if [adj] fail " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parties are looking at the project from different angles , so it is not surprising if each fails to see the other 's viewpoint . |
| 2 | A formal , internal appeals procedure was eventually introduced in 1927 and , if that failed , as it invariably did , individual strategies could be developed — at a cost . |
| 3 | If that failed , the next move would probably be to a Federal penitentiary where a fight in the yard or a sudden bout of pneumonia would secure his silence for good . |
| 4 | Or , if that failed , to destroy my credibility . |
| 5 | If that failed , a group of ships and boats would have to be used in an effort to drive the whales out into the Pentland Firth . |
| 6 | They may redouble their efforts to provoke others to contain benignly what is bubbling up inside them or , if that fails , to secure punishment for being so bad . |
| 7 | ‘ You can make representations to governments , but if that fails , you 're really in the cold , you 've just got to contract and go into something else . ’ |
| 8 | If that fails to dissuade you , you will be told that it is not very nice : it is frightening and ghoulish . |
| 9 | ‘ . If that fails , you may decide to disengage from the conversation . |
| 10 | But if that fails , many of us are influenced by the testimonials we see in brochures . |
| 11 | But if that fails , interest rates are set to rise . |
| 12 | And if that fails , there is always Bivouac 's bona fide Nirvana connection on which to fall back . |
| 13 | If that fails it will have to be replaced . |
| 14 | So it is not surprising that each field-worker tries to select an unstudied people , or if that fails , a community whose present circumstances render them acutely interesting for ‘ theoretical reasons ’ . |
| 15 | Even if that fails in Basquiat 's case , a new avenue of promotion may be developing , if art and popular music audiences can be seen to overlap . |
| 16 | The solvents listed above , you might care to know , make no impress on mouche excrement , so when confronted by this problem in your own home life use sputum or ammonia , and if that fails you must pick the droppings off with a scalpel . |
| 17 | They often go into the attack basing their arguments on , say , sales data , and if that fails , they fall back on another tack , perhaps new product development . |
| 18 | Application is made initially to the EAT , but if that fails , it may be renewed before the Court of Appeal : Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , s.146 . |
| 19 | If that fails , they try to modify the theory in an ad hoc manner . |
| 20 | And if that fails , and there is still no hand of man apparent in the removal , then it will be time to consider a rational judgement . |
| 21 | If that fails , or if the offender breaks his assurance , the Director can take proceedings against him in the Restrictive Practices Court , which has power to order that the course of conduct be abandoned . |
| 22 | Those cultural practices that can not be incorporated into the culture-ideology of consumerism become oppositional counter-hegemonic forces , to be harnessed or marginalized , and if that fails , destroyed physically . |
| 23 | And if that fails to resort to other means . ’ |
| 24 | It is therefore advisable to delete clause 9.1.6 , or if that fails , at least ensure that it is amended to refer to the distress or execution being levied at the premises ( 5 ) Consider adding the following two provisos : PROVIDED HOWEVER that in the event that this Lease is mortgaged at the time of the proposed re-entry and the Landlord has been given notice of the existence of the mortgage then prior to such re-entry or proceedings therefor the Landlord will serve a notice of such proceedings and proposed re-entry on the mortgagee at the mortgagee 's last known address AND PROVIDED FURTHER that if the Tenant ( being an individual ) becomes bankrupt or ( being a company ) enters into liquidation ( whether compulsory or voluntary save for the purposes of amalgamation or reconstruction of a solvent company ) or has a receiver appointed the Landlord shall not exercise the right of re-entry by virtue of such bankruptcy liquidation or receivership unless neither the Tenant nor its mortgagee shall pay the rent hereinbefore reserved on the days and in the manner provided or there shall be any breach or non-performance or non-observance of any of the other covenants or agreements on the part of the Tenant herein contained |
| 25 | That is why I will support the amendment and if that fails |
| 26 | If that fails too , the site where arguably the war was won , could be lost for ever . |
| 27 | If that fails it will be the first village school to be closed by the county council in the last five years . |
| 28 | This definition suggests two of the major deficiencies of the international legal system — firstly that there is little one country can do if another fails to abide by the rules , and this is made worse by the second factor , the lack of a comprehensive single body of law that could form the basis of a truly coherent system . |
| 29 | Claiming to speak for the eighty per cent of Kindertransporte refugees who were clearly Jewish ( though of these only twenty per cent were orthodox and at least fourteen per cent were non-practising ) , Schonfeld argued a policy of Jewish homes for Jewish children and , if this failed , for the RCM to devote its energies to raising money for hostels where religious supervision ( of a strictly orthodox nature ) could be guaranteed . |
| 30 | She had planned to appeal to Emerson 's better nature , or , if this failed , to argue that he owed her whatever assistance he could give in return for his earlier deceit of her . |