Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighbouring vowels . |
| 2 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 3 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 4 | As to business activities , a covenant is likely to be unreasonable if it covers activities which are not relevant to the business sold . |
| 5 | An algorithm is considered to be practical if it runs in polynomial time , i.e run-time O(nk) for some constant k . |
| 6 | But it would be idle to pretend that there were not frivolous appeals and attempts by parties to delay and frustrate justice and to be obstructive if it suited them , when litigants learned how to " play " the courts to their advantage . |