Example sentences of "if [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an analysis , if vigorously pursued , will show , among other things , that all properties are ultimately functions of certain structures , and that reality in the most fundamental sense of the word is structure simpliciter . |
| 2 | Boxfish ( ostraciontidae ) release a poisonous substance into the aquarium if badly handled or attacked by other fish sufficient to kill all fish in the same aquarium and itself . |
| 3 | It is a laborious process , likely to lead to embarrassing blunders if badly done . |
| 4 | A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work . |
| 5 | If badly managed companies are no more at risk than efficient ones , however , it seems fair to assume that the disciplinary effect of the market for control is significantly diminished . |
| 6 | Argument and competition are potentially beneficial and fruitful ; both may degenerate into conflict if badly managed . |
| 7 | However , if badly designed , this can be a major source of stress at work . |
| 8 | My dogs were straining against the sledge now and yelping as if badly hurt . |
| 9 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 10 | ( Success , if skilfully presented , did bring greater independence . ) |
| 11 | Unlike Napoleon III , who believed that diplomacy could , if skilfully handled , bring results without war — and this in spite of his failures to make this work in 1854 and 1859 — Bismarck held with Frederick the Great that : ‘ Diplomacy without war is like music without instruments . ’ |
| 12 | A series of limited interests makes the alienation of the land very difficult , and , if skilfully done , impossible . |
| 13 | Generosity was expected of a king ; loyal servants expected to be rewarded , and patronage if skilfully used could bring the king much support . |
| 14 | These might be studied by ‘ serious composers ’ , as they would probably yield new and interesting effects if skilfully combined with other instruments such as low flutes , clarinets , etc . |
| 15 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 16 | Body weight is often a better indication of development in certain strains and if commercially bred animals are used weight may be the only available measure of developmental age . |
| 17 | He realized that he was short on programme , but thought that his reputation as a moderate statesman , calmly if slowly steering the country in the right direction , would overcome that . |
| 18 | In this period , the recognition of early flint scatters on the uplands or the coast , or the location of a settlement site , whether in a cave or not , can rarely be divorced from other contemporary sites in the vicinity , even if widely separated . |
| 19 | Also fitted as standard : a handy fuel store in the hump and an attitude to water conservation which , if widely adopted , would halve the price of water shares overnight . |
| 20 | The decision on prejudice is presumably at the discretion of police and tax officers ; if widely exercised it could set at naught some of the principal objects of the Act . |
| 21 | Professor Lear 's assertion that ‘ it is through love that humans , and the rest of living nature , acquire form ’ seems to me a throwback to a much earlier mode of thinking which , if widely readopted , would be about as intellectually productive as a Romanian state-run steel mill is economically productive . |
| 22 | This time the little lady stood up , if thereby adding only some seven or eight inches in stature to her seated posture . |
| 23 | Jacques Tajan 's much heralded sale of the largest collection of ancient mirrors in the world on 8 December in the Hotel George V , proved a notable if little publicised failure . |
| 24 | The practical making of silage using cheap and simple equipment is well described by Watson and Smith , and , if properly made , it is every bit as nutritious and more succulent than good hay . |
| 25 | In Greater London alone , the Bottle Bank Scheme , if properly extended , could save annually some 5–2 million gallons of oil . |
| 26 | You can be strangled from the front or behind , by one hand , two hands or the arms ; if properly strangled , you will pass out in a matter of seconds . |
| 27 | There is no extradition treaty between Iran and Britain , though this does not rule out granting a request , if properly formulated . |
| 28 | And the libel action , if it comes to trial , will give us valuable national publicity if properly handled . |
| 29 | Nearly every child if properly taught loves to draw and paint . |
| 30 | In our network 's submission on the consultation document we welcomed the opportunity for user expertise to be used in this way if properly supported and paid for . |