Example sentences of "[adj] if [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the user 's responsibility to do this if required . |
| 2 | Indeed , their own car would probably look like this if left to Anna ; but Peter tidied it , because of all the parishioners he gave lifts to . |
| 3 | There are special toothpastes which are not harmful if swallowed , and brushing your dog 's teeth is actually very easy once it has been demonstrated by a vet . |
| 4 | Like many commonplace food products , including salt or even carrots , alcohol can be regarded as harmful if consumed in very large amounts , but at low levels of consumption it is harmless . |
| 5 | No matter how helpful some of the tools presented seem to appear , they will prove useless and even harmful if taken up by those with eyes which are spiritually blind and whose hands lack spiritual strength . |
| 6 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
| 7 | Residents living in the Jennyfields area of Harrogate were warned that the pills could prove harmful if taken by children . |
| 8 | This would be very sensible if using an expensive substrate such as glass beads . |
| 9 | Nonetheless there are certain consequences which we may notice : First , an obvious prediction from ( 47 ) is that , once again , adjectives which are not ascribed to the entity of the noun would be ungrammatical if put into this position . |
| 10 | Therefore they are likely to be more reliable if used correctly ! |
| 11 | But that figure could be cut by half if falling sales and paper closures are brought into the equation . |
| 12 | The pile of three blocks shown in the drawing would be stable if pushed at from the direction of one of the arrows and very unstable if pushed at from the other direction . |
| 13 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 14 | A lepidopterist might be able to quote a going price for a preserved chalk-hill blue in good condition , wild rabbits have a price when shot and skinned , but the market price of Twyford Down itself would be low if sold with legal constraints which kept it as an open , public space and high if sold with planning permission for houses or industry ( or even a road ) . |
| 15 | This issue paid 8.45 p.c. tax free if held for five years and the maximum holding was £1,500 . |
| 16 | If you have a 2.5 or V8 the cost is nothing , or a small fee to have the ignition retimed ( free if included with a routine service ) . |
| 17 | Be very careful if ordering from a catalogue and not actually seeing the plants in full growth ; read the descriptions most carefully . |
| 18 | Bartholin 's glands , which produce a secretion to aid lubrication during sexual intercourse , become extremely painful if infected . |
| 19 | Characters looking into the mirror count as prone if attacked . |
| 20 | They have often not promoted the idea that human nature is basically sound if encouraged , but rather emphasized the need for a concept of divine grace . |
| 21 | Paul Hillyer the Club solicitor pointed out , and confirmed an earlier concern , that the Wine Sub-Committee ( established in 1962 to comply with the Licensing Act 1961 ) might be unconstitutional if voting for its members was not open to all membership categories . |
| 22 | GRANDPAPA : genuine old timer , magnificent specimen , long white beard , skull-cap if required , willing to be photographed , interviewed , quoted . |
| 23 | Marks appear weighty and assertive if driven on to the canvas with a painting knife . |
| 24 | This means running an earth wire ( 4mm 2 , or 2.5mm 2 if run in conduit ) from the main earthing point and linking it to the hot and cold pipes , the taps and any metal fittings such as metal sinks . |
| 25 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
| 26 | That is , the motivating biological metaphor of the Prisoners ' Dilemma generates a transition rule that is simple , but it would look horrendous if expressed in canonical cellular automata terms . |
| 27 | But if the Wolf-Man is one of Freud 's successes , it would be interesting if harrowing to read about one of his failures . |
| 28 | Individual whelks seem to have no " loyalty " to their own pack , readily joining another if displaced . |
| 29 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 30 | Browning 's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury . |