Example sentences of "is [vb pp] if [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 'm still a little bit puzzled about the thirteen hectares , is that footloose depending on where the settlement is placed if it 's placed within Greater York ? |
| 2 | TIM WEBB believes such concern is misplaced if it fails to address cultural as well as environmental issues . |
| 3 | Eliot wrote of the huge scale of the Russian Revolution and of the huge scale of its violence , pointing out that only one result could justify such huge and terrible expense : ‘ Such a cataclysm is justified if it produces something really new : Un [ sic ] oasis d'horreur dans un désert d'ennui ’ . |
| 4 | Even where there is an absolute right to legal advice , the suspect can be questioned before that advice is given if he consents , or where , to wait , would cause unreasonable delay or hindrance . |
| 5 | The patient is lifted if he has not recovered his ability to balance , that is , if he tends to topple and fall backwards and towards his hemiplegic side when he tries to sit or stand up without any support . |
| 6 | Military analysts say President Bush is deluded if he thinks the 30,000 troops will be home by January 20 , when Bill Clinton takes over . |
| 7 | The change procedure is bypassed if he considers that the change is beneficial and that no significant change in the functionality of the relevant sub-system , or impact on the development schedule , will be incurred . |
| 8 | She is damned if she does and damned if she does n't . |
| 9 | Finally , a contract is excepted if it provides credit of f35 or less ( unless it is a hire-purchase or conditional sale agreement ) . |
| 10 | The system of advancement through the grades was ( and is ) tightly controlled , and was ( and is ) done strictly on the basis of seniority , and a driver is penalised if he breaks the chain : if his name is top of the list for promotion to a certain level , he is allowed to refuse such promotion twice ( Murdoch 1986 : 44 ; 30 ) . |
| 11 | There appears to be a widely , though not universally , held opinion that the degradation of the surrogate mother is increased if she receives payment for undertaking the pregnancy . |
| 12 | Surrogacy is frequently denounced as an exploitation of the surrogate mother , but the idea that the exploitation is increased if she receives payment is surely paradoxical . |
| 13 | On recounting the tale to a journalist , the victim is asked if he thinks there will ever be an end to this cycle of violence , to which he answers , ‘ No , as long as they keep shitting in our shoes , we 'll keep pissing in their Bovril . ’ |
| 14 | Brundle looks askance when he is asked if he has ever read the books of technical instruction in race-driving written by Pierro Taruffi and Alain Prost , among others . |
| 15 | He is asked if he has been booked . |
| 16 | It can not in our judgment be right that a judge can refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue before their case is concluded if he believes the evidence already called raises a prima facie case . |
| 17 | Some clergy say the Church of England is doomed if it says no to women priests . |
| 18 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 19 | The extension of a period fixed shall not be treated as relief from which the lessee is barred if he fails to pay arrears and costs within that period ( meaning the period fixed ) ( s 138(8) ) . |
| 20 | But the reader is mistaken if he assumes that the humble eat below the salt in that great hall , or that the poor come to the buttery-hatch for alms . |
| 21 | ‘ He is mistaken if he believes the United States or United Nations lacks resolve , ’ said Mr Clinton last night . |
| 22 | The Commission took the view that the responsibility of a legal service was the provision of legal advice and assistance to individuals , that community action tends to involve only one section of the community , and that the independence of a centre is compromised if it becomes a base for campaigns . |