Example sentences of "if [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This may prove more effective if the girl playing the wife has no idea of what the scene is going to be about . |
| 32 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 33 | But Northern reliance on force , necessary if the character of the state was to be absolutely preserved , was the weakest point and the eventual undoing of the apparent stability achieved by the partition settlement . |
| 34 | If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists . |
| 35 | From Carson to Paisley one finds the argument that it is legitimate to fight to regain one 's fundamental freedom if the sovereign with whom one has covenanted one 's allegiance betrays that allegiance and conducts one into slavery . |
| 36 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 37 | It would seem that catholic — nationalist morality is to remain a feature of the Southern state and of any future all-Ireland state , if the clerical church 's wishes continue to prevail . |
| 38 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 39 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 40 | But what if the motorless machine is what it is all about ? |
| 41 | And Goldberg , on his pad : If the fool had ever bothered to read what I have written on the subject in the essay on aura and the hour he would not have flailed about as he does here . |
| 42 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 43 | If the Bachelors could impregnate the Bride , he wrote , then art would flourish . |
| 44 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 45 | Only if the whole person is engaged , he wrote , only if you have the sense that the truth , in however paradoxical a form , is on your side , that reality , no matter how disguised , is what you are working towards , only then will Proteus be defeated . |
| 46 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 47 | Even if the Gallery does not buy it I do not wish to have anything more to do with it . |
| 48 | If the temperature is above 21°C you must leave the liquid to cool , covered with a lid or a tight fitting material such as Clingfilm . |
| 49 | If the temperature is too low the beer will stop fermenting . |
| 50 | If the temperature is too high , the yeast will mutate and produce unpleasant off flavours in the beer . |
| 51 | When this happens take a hydrometer reading and if the gravity is about 1010 syphon the beer into the wine cube . |
| 52 | If the pubs are taken away then the community is the poorer for it . ’ |
| 53 | As such , they need constant updating — especially if the perceived trend towards reduced pub-going is to be reversed . |
| 54 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |
| 55 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 56 | ‘ … is would be helpful if the Listing Division of the Department of the Environment could revise their own guidelines in order that certain pubs could receive more protection as an integral whole . |
| 57 | But if the children 's autumn half-term coincided with a bank holiday weekend for their parents , that would make sense both for families and for the tourist and leisure industry . |
| 58 | If the restaurant in question adds a service charge , then that is between it and the customer . |
| 59 | The computer system will only bring the returns that the company expects if the people using it are using the system fully , which can be guaranteed through investment in adequate training . |
| 60 | If the independent business has one staff member who regularly uses the computer equipment and sufficiently interested to study the manuals , that person will , given encouragement , build up expertise which can usefully be passed on . |