Example sentences of "and if it " in BNC.

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1 It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong .
2 And if it topples over it certainly will .
3 In the standard recovery , the full opposite rudder is always applied first , and if it does slow down the rotation , the nose of the glider will automatically drop , helping to unstall the wings .
4 This will tell you if the glider has an obvious stall buffet and if it is likely to drop a wing during a stall when thermalling .
5 This is a haematoma and if it is in an area where you are likely to receive further knocks , you should withdraw from the competition .
6 No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof .
7 To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all .
8 And if it ends up in the scrap bin , we simply write it off to experience , and start again .
9 Dance is firstly a physical activity and if it is obscured by complicated costumes , props , machinery , lighting and stage effects , it ceases to be relevant to anything but the cleverness of the producer .
10 For such a beginning writer in such a situation , it may well turn out that a minor master like Landor is more fruitfully instructive than a major master like Milton or Keats : and if it does turn out so , one has a certain debt of honour that must be paid to the past master by whom one was liberated .
11 And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time .
12 ‘ It could be another two years before the election , ’ Dennis Skinner reflected between stultifyingly cordial debates , ‘ and if it is , there is going to be a lot of water flowing under political bridges .
13 And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event .
14 And if it meant that Senna were to lose the championship , then the legal ramifications would be far-reaching .
15 ‘ It 's a bit of fun , and if it appeals to the young people , that 's a good thing .
16 A World Championship conker must be exactly a week old , any less and it is too soft and if it lies any longer , the inside shrivels up .
17 ‘ It 's an unexploded bomb , Piper , and if it had gone off last night a lot of you silly buggers would have gone with it . ’
18 This is the other way : you fix the expenditure first , and you hope afterwards ; and if it does n't come off ( which it is unlikely to , if you are gambling on an improbability ) , then the result is the monetisation of debt with the consequences which we know .
19 The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community !
20 I think you have to be extremely clear-minded and unemotional about what your objectives are and if it is a public company you must remember the paramount importance of the owners of the business — the shareholders .
21 And if it really will do 122mph and manage 0–62mph in 8.6 secs , it 's going to hurt .
22 Thus , if the body clock is delayed then one tries to advance it by giving bright light in the morning , and if it is advanced then the light is given in the evening to delay it .
23 And if it can , do enough people believe it can ?
24 ‘ I can see it 's wonderful for the East Germans , and if it does n't lead to reunification I 've no objection to it .
25 ‘ This piece was n't meant to denigrate feminism , and if it comes across that way , I think I failed . ’
26 If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’
27 The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one .
28 But it will have little impact on crime and if it serves merely as a pretext for disarming honest citizens , it will prove a serious mistake .
29 But I 'm very young , and if it goes wrong , I can always do something else . ’
30 Nothing was further from my thoughts ; my reason would be simply enjoyment , and if it was the most commonplace thing to do my delight would not be decreased one bit .
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