Example sentences of "[conj] if [art] " in BNC.

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1 If the output of a spending agency is proportional to the number of front-line workers ( for convenience we take the factor of proportionality as unity ) , an output of G requires an organization with ( ) grades where If the salary of the front-line worker is denoted by w , then the total labour cost involved in administering the output G is where h is given by ( 10–1 ) .
2 If we 're talking about using this sy er type of system for running mission critical systems where if the database goes down the business stops running and starts losing money , then we need to be able to run twenty four hours a day seven days a week .
3 Thus for or for or If t' represents the time with respect to a new origin taken at time so that , then and of course But Hence
4 Some lifts have rails that can fold up at the bottom if space is tight or if a doorway is going to obstructed .
5 Or if a rational soul should stir , perchance ,
6 Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population .
7 FROM 1984–90 guesses that cash flow could be higher if assets changed hands or if a firm 's financial structure was changed were made in $1.7 trillion-worth of cases in America .
8 Such sanctions could be implemented either by insisting that before receiving funds form the EC for a particular project the member country must ensure that the project in question complies with environmental legislation , or if a member country does not comply with environmental legislation across the board , the EC could withhold funding .
9 The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made .
10 Is a survey necessary at all if the house is new or if a mortgage inspection is carried out ?
11 The nurse brings to the relationship a maturity which permits toleration of frustration if , for example , a patient is not at home when she makes a house call ; or if a patient does not take the prescribed medication ; or removes a dressing or falls out of bed .
12 In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had .
13 The question now is whether they will all be penalised as a result of collective inaccuracy , or if a convincing explanation will be found to persuade clients , both political and commercial , that surveys are worth the paper they are printed on .
14 He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) .
15 If a Shusui 's Doitsu scales are going to turn greyish black , rather than a sky blue , or if a Kumonryu is going to lose all its black and turn into a valueless Doitsu Shiromuji , it will have done so in adolescence .
16 If the patient 's well-being is enhanced or if a problem such as asthma is cured , but joint pains flare up or a skin rash develops , the physician can reassure the patient that things are moving in the right direction and that the joint or skin problem should be transient and will also clear up in due course .
17 Planning permission will be required if the height of the ridge is to be raised , or if a dormer window is added to a roof slope which fronts onto a highway , and roof alterations caused by loft conversions will certainly require approval under the Building Regulations .
18 BT conceded that , if a merger did not take place , the System X collaboration could also exist if either company purchased the other company 's interests or if a joint company were set up .
19 Or if a round of golf gives you a lift , you can play at the foot of this legendary mountain .
20 Or if a Form knitter found that the pattern was only in the fully written version , with no Form program .
21 For example , if the keeper makes a great save I might play ‘ Superman ’ or if a player gets sent off I play the funeral march .
22 Or if a firm 's lease is due for renewal or the rent is due for review , this may prompt a firm to relocate .
23 If the adventurers specifically state that they want to look for spell ingredients , or if a spellcaster makes an Int test without specifically stating this intention , they can find the following : a fire opal ( Resist Fire ) , a crystal prism ( Destroy Illusions ) , an 8-inch diameter golden hoop ( Vanish , but the hoop is red gold , so the spell will cost 9 MPs rather than 6 ) , a magnifying glass ( Banish Illusion ) , and a polished silver mirror ( Camouflage Illusion ) .
24 Wounds only heal , and W loss is only stopped , if magical healing is used or if a character with the Heal Wounds skill spends at least 3 rounds attending to the bleeding character .
25 After many doubts as to whether the event would go as planned , or if a significant number of aircraft would turn-up , the celebrations held over the weekend went off without a hitch and the whole town was enveloped in Norseman fever or Norsemania , as the local press called it .
26 One could instead increase mutation rates artificially : if doubling mutation rates doubled senescence , or if a slight increase in the mutation rate produced catastrophic senescence ( Box 2 ) , then this would suggest a substantial effect of mutation in the original population .
27 In addition , diagnostic delay causes considerable distress to families and may result in subsequent bitterness if the child 's symptoms are not taken seriously by family or health professionals or if a second affected boy is born .
28 Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends .
29 The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence .
30 For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line .
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