Example sentences of "if it [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disappointing turnout of visitors to London 's Solutions for Workstations Show earlier this month has led to redundancies at show organiser EMAP Exhibitions , including show manager , John Howe : Sun Microsystems Inc has already declined a space at next year 's event — if it happens at all . |
| 2 | In this sense , the English-speaking world can be divided into two broad speech-communities : one in which [ h ] -dropping is widespread and has social significance , and one in which it is so rare ( if it happens at all ) that it is socially irrelevant . |
| 3 | The bud ( e ) has been burrowed into by the tortrix moth , and if it opens at all will be badly damaged . |
| 4 | A burning , thick discharge like cream , especially if it occurs at the time of the monthly period . |
| 5 | A miracle , in other words , if it occurs at all , is a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 6 | If it occurs at the beginning of a committee meeting where something is going to be pushed through and the agenda manipulated it can provoke the reaction , " … hypocrites " . |
| 7 | As a result of these tendencies , the market structure of the eurobond market has generally been categorised as competitive — although such aspects as product differentiation , growth maximising strategies and the inability of a firm to gain infinite demand for its services if it sells at below market prices suggest imperfect rather than perfect competition ( firms do not compete on price alone ) . |
| 8 | I do n't know if it shuts at five o'clock or what they do or if evening staff come on ? |
| 9 | If it goes at different times , it 's a different consignment . |
| 10 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 11 | ‘ If it helps at all , Colonel , it was apparently a heart attack your father died of . |
| 12 | So one is forced to conclude that the reason hundreds of dismayed tourists and walkers are stranded on stations up and down the length of the West Highland line at the height of the season , unable to squeeze into an already packed ‘ Sprinter ’ , if it arrives at all , is that somebody is doing this on purpose . |
| 13 | The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection . |
| 14 | The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research . |
| 15 | It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it . |
| 16 | If it pecks at one it receives a grain of food ; if it pecks at the other it does not . |
| 17 | If it pecks at one it receives a grain of food ; if it pecks at the other it does not . |
| 18 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 19 | The only fly in the ointment is if it starts at seven , it 's going to be a bit of a rush . |
| 20 | The subsidiarity principle ( taking decisions at the lowest practicable level of government ) , which the British government makes much of , is drafted in a form so soft that it will cut both ways if it cuts at all . |
| 21 | Moreover , physical contact , if it proceeds at all , will almost inevitably reach the point of physical stimulation of their sexual parts , so that now the reflex component also comes into play . |
| 22 | The bond strength of O-H in a water molecule is 119kcalmol -1 or 5.2eV , corresponding to the kinetic energy of the molecule if it moves at only 7.4kms -1 . |
| 23 | and then I can take you home afterwards , see if it finishes at three I wo n't be home till quarter to four at the earliest |
| 24 | The dividing line here is a tenuous one if it exists at all . |
| 25 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 26 | and conscience is either killed , or , if it lives at all , lives but to give rebellion its fascination , and disobedience its charm . |