Example sentences of "if it is to " in BNC.

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31 All food needs to be stored and prepared carefully if it is to be enjoyed at its best .
32 Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ .
33 But , while it is an extremely sporting and enjoyable method , ferreting involves a lot of hard graft and a lot of skill and knowhow is required if it is to be done effectively .
34 Serve warm , cut into neat squares for tapas , or quarters if it is to be the centrepiece of the meal .
35 But we are convinced that the housegroup group , if it is to be powerful in building people up for the fight , is the place for this .
36 If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months .
37 Any future attempt to end our oppression or to re-draw the boundaries will , if it is to be more than tokenistic , have to touch on the question of how we learn our sexuality — or , as some of us see it , how we experience heterosexist socialization .
38 You can make a move in 1993 but even if it is to bigger and better things , there may be some apprehension , possibly even sadness , attached to it .
39 The transfer price must be equal to the market price if it is to be at all relevant .
40 If it is to be truly the Church it must submit to the Lordship of Christ and live its daily life in dependence on the presence and resources of the Holy Spirit .
41 Each church , if it is to be truly indigenous , should be rooted in the soil of its local culture ’ ( Pasadena Consultation 1978:3 ) .
42 This allows the hand to grip the tacker and transmit force directly to the impact point , the operator 's hand needs to ‘ feel ’ the nose of a tacker if it is to be used accurately .
43 It is true that embalming improves the appearance of a corpse if it is to be viewed by friends and relations .
44 Burnard and Chapman go further-than this definition , by recommending that knowledge should be research based and up to date if it is to be the best for accountability in practice .
45 The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task .
46 Just as it is sensible to place notices in braille at hand level or just above so that they can be easily read with the fingers , so visual material needs to be put up near to eye level if it is to be seen or read without difficulty by all the pupils .
47 A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful .
48 It is a persistent misapprehension that the UK 1986 Act requires that a programme must be justified in terms of the weaker claim if it is to be approved by the Secretary of State .
49 For those gardeners able to cut out and plant up new beds , the nature of the rose does impose certain conditions if it is to be appreciated fully .
50 Mushroom compost is the material from mushroom beds after cropping has finished , by which time the urine content has gone , but it still needs composting if it is to be dug in .
51 This paper uses research to demonstrate the meaning and possibility of translation and its typicality within legal practice — a crucial point if it is to be identified as the specific practice and thus theoretically the defining characteristic of lawyers .
52 The party needs a shake-out , if it is to be the driving-force on the compassionate side of the new politics .
53 To survive , a butterfly must get away from it — at least 25cm away if it is to be certain of living until morning .
54 The same item may either be classified as ‘ waste ’ , if it is to be disposed of , or as ‘ residual matter ’ , if it has some further economic use .
55 Hewlett-Packard Co is not a company to rush into something just because it is the fashion , but with ICL Plc firmly in the Sparc camp , Groupe Bull SA committed to IBM Corp 's Power RISC and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's allegiance to the Alpha RISC bought dearly by Digital Equipment Corp — with Hewlett an unsuccessful contender in both the last two cases , the company may well be beginning to think that persuading Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG of the virtues of the Precision Architecture RISC is a high priority if it is to be seen to have equal standing with its three closest rivals in Europe .
56 A specified time should be set as a deadline when outgoing mail should be ready if it is to be despatched that day .
57 If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals .
58 Any local tax should meet several criteria if it is to be introduced .
59 This approach argues that the best way in which to use syntactic knowledge is to formalise the grammar and encode it as a set of rules to which input must conform if it is to be considered acceptable .
60 If it is to be held that both women and men find salvation in Christ , then it must be simply ‘ humanity ’ which is of significance as having been taken on .
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