Example sentences of "if it has " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it has to tell a story , he wrote , it will be the story of the machine inside the ghost , of the ghost animated by the machine . |
| 2 | Discard it if it has awkward wires or some other hazard on the approach , and choose another field . |
| 3 | If it has a story or theme the behaviour and actions of the characters are predictable and conform to the old code of courtly behaviour . |
| 4 | If it has a rounded top , projecting only about 25mm above the gravel , it will not harm the tyres . |
| 5 | Certainly , any academic who wants to write a book on a canonical author , topic , or period , is likely to get a contract without very much formality ( particularly if it has to do with ‘ women ’ or ‘ theory ’ , or ideally both ) . |
| 6 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 7 | Reading this poem urges us to ask what ‘ essential history ’ is and wonder if it has some ritual pattern . |
| 8 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 9 | If it has colour and patination and is not over-restored , it 's worth the money . |
| 10 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 11 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 12 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 13 | At a minimum , Solidarity is expected to present more than one list to the voters at the next general election — if it has not already formally split by then . |
| 14 | Any proposal will be in trouble if it has to be approved by the upper house of parliament as well as the lower house . |
| 15 | If it has not already come , First Interstate should be expecting a telephone call soon . |
| 16 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 17 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 18 | However , if part of that heartwood were found on an archaeological site , the radiocarbon result would not provide the date of usage of the wood , but rather a date three hundred radiocarbon years earlier , and more if it has been seasoned before use or re-used . |
| 19 | The object may prove to be genuine , but this is little consolation to the owner if it has been largely destroyed during the authentication process . |
| 20 | If it has , tread it firm again . |
| 21 | The horse may suffer anxiety in relation to one specific part of its life : shoeing , trailering , saddling , mounting , and so oh , but if it has been hurt in a number of situations , it is likely to learn to be anxious in relation to anything to do with people . |
| 22 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 23 | A symbolic arrow can function only if it has a target , explicit or implicit . |
| 24 | The new law says a bank is not liable if it has accepted the cheque ‘ in good faith and without negligence ’ . |
| 25 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 26 | If it has grown to £447,000 then £300,000 is taxable on her death but if it falls to £247,000 her estate will only pay tax on £100,000 , assuming that the nil rate band did not change . |
| 27 | For a start , America has proposed that Serbia be suspended from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe if it has not halted its aggression against Bosnia-Hercegovina by April 29 , the date on which delegates reconvene in Helsinki after the Easter break . |
| 28 | If it has n't , the only thing you can do — apart from continuing your garage-less existence , or renting one from a car-less neighbour — is to convert part of the ground floor of your house to construct a built-in garage , with all the upheaval and loss of living space which that entails . |
| 29 | See BALLVALVE PROBLEMS if it has n't . |
| 30 | Should the collar of the soil pipe ( if it has one ) break , this is not usually detrimental with today 's couplings , as long as the inside of the pipe is not cracked . |