Example sentences of "if the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the mere promise of an act is sufficient consideration to induce a counter-promise , surely the complete performance of that act should be accepted . |
| 2 | They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day . |
| 3 | as if the mere sound of it would send students screaming from the premises . |
| 4 | But there are some works in a lighter vein this one being a prime example for which one wonders if the mere fact of having a man play a woman 's role was intended to provoke laughter . |
| 5 | It seemed as if the entire structure of the office block must surely collapse in a grinding , tearing , disintegrating avalanche of rubble . |
| 6 | IF the entire story of Mr Lamont 's visit was invented , why blame Mr Newton alone when he was actually on holiday at the time Mr Lamont allegedly visited the shop , and only embellished Mr Onanuga 's version of events ? |
| 7 | A crypt was analysed if the entire length of the crypt was visible in the longitudinal section and the base of the crypt contacted the muscularis mucosa . |
| 8 | For example , if the entire coding for the strength of the response depended on Kandel 's single synapse , there should be in the intact animal a direct correlation between the frequency or amount of firing of that specific motor neuron and the strength of the withdrawal reflex . |
| 9 | Today , with the regular air and sea link to Porto Santo , it seems , in the traditional holiday months of August and September , as if the entire population of Funchal has moved to Porto Santo . |
| 10 | As a comparison , he pointed out that if the entire population of China were set the same task , it would take them more than four hours to complete it . |
| 11 | In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it . |
| 12 | ‘ What were you confessing ? ’ she asked , bold as brass , walking up to him in her everyday short skirt and torn black stockings , as if the terrible incident on the stairs had not happened at all . |
| 13 | It is clear that , within the framework of a dual-route model of spelling , phonological dysgraphia is the pattern you would expect if the non-lexical procedure for spelling is selectively damaged , and surface dysgraphia is the pattern expected if it is the lexical procedure for spelling that is the damaged one . |
| 14 | If the European Convention on Human Rights is incorporated into our law , political power will relocate itself in the Royal Courts of Justice , and advocates will be deciding the law on abortion , on Sunday trading , on political and tobacco advertising , and the like . |
| 15 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 16 | Councils are poised to try to ban Sunday shopping next weekend if the European Court of Justice refers the debate back to the House of Lords this week . |
| 17 | It seems as if the Central Court at Phaistos was rather more public than that at Knossos . |
| 18 | If the central part of the retina is damaged , clear , acute vision will not be possible in any part of the visual field . |
| 19 | Something on that scale , or beyond , will be needed if the lethal cocktail of growing populations and diminishing harvests is not to create further tragedy in much of the third world . |
| 20 | Even if the estimated cost of a branch costing .1 was .0999999 , the algorithm would backtrack , exploring the search space breadth-first . |
| 21 | But if the absolute rise in eps is used , companies which begin with high eps have an unfair advantage . |
| 22 | If the absolute size of certain selected issues can be established by counting their dies , it is possible to extrapolate similar values for other issues by comparing the representation of counted and uncounted issues in hoards . |
| 23 | If the visual cortex of a monkey is exposed to a stain that highlights the enzyme cytochrome oxidase it is possible to identify densely labelled blobs , which indicate high concentrations of the enzyme , in the upper layers of the visual cortex ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) . |
| 24 | In this case planning permission is necessary , and there may be zombie difficulty in getting approval if the visual appearance of the building is substantially changed . |
| 25 | If the visual pattern on the page could contact the lexicon directly , without an intermediate orthographic analysis or GPC-decoding process , then the reader could pronounce the word on the basis of knowledge stored in the lexicon . |
| 26 | If the representative assembly in such a system finds it difficult to hold the administration accountable , this may be because the collective political leadership of the administration finds it convenient to restrict legislative scrutiny and control . |
| 27 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 28 | If the said Member of Parliament is not selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate at the special meeting referred to in paragraph ( b ) above to be the prospective parliamentary candidate , he or she shall have the right to appeal to the National Executive Committee on the grounds , and only on the grounds , that the procedure laid down in these rules and the general provision of the constitution and rules have not been properly carried out . |
| 29 | But if the determining force in human existence was unaltered , the peculiarities of environment — shortage of food , absence of women , lack of space , remoteness of the outside world — did produce corresponding peculiarities of behaviour . |
| 30 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |