Example sentences of "[vb pp] if [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the long term these things need to be addressed if the mountain areas are n't going to receive very very serious damage .
2 Power relations can not be addressed if the unconscious is evoked in such an absolute , disconnected way .
3 There are numerous complications that need to be addressed if an earlier transfer date is to deemed to apply and the complications will outweigh the advantages unless there are exceptional circumstances .
4 Central administration tends to be heavily bureaucratic and it is interesting to speculate whether the deserving would be better served and the abuses of the modern system better curbed if the administration was returned to more local control .
5 But to undertake to pay a certain sum after the sale of a property does not give rise to any implication that the solicitor will be exonerated if no sale proceeds come into his hands .
6 It could be reopened if the current status of things changed .
7 A tumour was considered mixed if the minority component comprised more than 20% of the total tumour mass according to the criteria of the British Stomach Cancer Group ( Levison DA , personal communication ) .
8 Overall , patients were deemed to be psychologically stressed if the physician had noted stress at any of the scheduled appointments .
9 Rent control leads to a decline in the rate of return on the rented accommodation , when compared to what could be earned if the capital value of the house were invested elsewhere .
10 It is also an immensely difficult decision for the doctor , who will have established over time a relationship of confidence with all but the most severely unfit of his patients ( who anyway are unlikely to have expressed a view ) , which confidence will be shattered if the patient 's request is ignored , thereby adding , if possible , to the unhappiness of the patient .
11 This gave rise to the ‘ fine-tuning hypothesis ’ which suggested that learning opportunities are maximised if the adult is able to ‘ fine tune ’ her speech so that its structural complexity is always slightly in advance of that of the child .
12 In this example the half stepping excitation scheme is being used , so the Phase is excited for half of the total cycle and the torque is maximised if the phase current is turned on when d L A /d 0 is positive .
13 Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty .
14 For no claim can be permitted if the child is not mine .
15 It had turned down an offer by the UN , under which Iraqi exports of up to 1,000,000 bpd would be permitted if the revenues were spent on humanitarian aid [ see p. 38742 ] , arguing that the conditions were unacceptable .
16 However , earlier exercise is permitted if the participant leaves the employment of the Group through death , redundancy , retirement , injury , disability , or the company or undertaking by which he is employed being transferred outside the Group ; or in the event of a takeover , reconstruction or voluntary winding-up of the Company .
17 Thus , if the clause is reasonable it will stand for all the classes of liability under the UCTA for which exclusion is permitted if the requirement of reasonableness is satisfied .
18 Follow up calls are not permitted if the investor has recently made it clear to the firm that he does not wish to discuss the matter .
19 This is not much of a problem , as colours can be varied if a simple identification is sought .
20 The 1:1 ratio between projected and camera film can be varied if the projector or , more conveniently , its lens can move back and forward .
21 Peter Dawson had , however , asked who his father was , and had then inquired if the family was any relation to Mr Heinrich Stych , who used to teach in Tollemarche Public School .
22 Indeed they may well risk their pale-faced prodigy again in the match against Egypt today — even though this must be won if a vital quarter-final seeding place is to be secured .
23 Equally , the involvement is more likely to be won if the student 's choices and decisions are genuine and not bogus , allowing him or her to feel personally responsible for at least part of it .
24 The principal offence , located at the time of field work in the Rivers ( Prevention of Pollution ) Act 1951 , s.2 , is committed if a person ‘ causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous , noxious or polluting matter …
25 If an exhaust system has two such articles this offence is not committed if the gases pass through any such article before escaping into the atmosphere .
26 Generally the rest of this phrase means that the offence is committed if the vehicle or part of it proceeds past the traffic lights on the left or nearside of the approaching vehicle .
27 ‘ did , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority ’ Means that this offence is not committed if the accused believed that he had lawful authority to do it or that he would have had the owner 's consent if the owner knew of his doing it and the circumstances of it .
28 In Totem and Taboo , the suggestion was that early groups of men killed the primal father , and in his recapitulation of the argument Freud , in this paper , uses Christianity as evidence that a murder must have been committed if the Son , Christ , had to be a human sacrifice to atone for the sin of men .
29 This has the remarkable consequence that if a man attacks his wife ( or vice versa ) in the privacy of their own home , the offence of affray appears to be committed if the evidence is that there was violence of a sufficient degree .
30 The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence .
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