Example sentences of "if it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he support the Federal Reserve if it again becomes necessary to douse the embers of inflation ? |
| 2 | Before fifteen days are over , if it please God , those tambours shall be laid before you , and shall be sounded for your pleasure , and then they shall be given to the Bishop Don Hieronymo , that he may hang them up in the Church of St. Mary , Mother of God . |
| 3 | ‘ Ellen , sir , if it please your lordship . ’ |
| 4 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 5 | And you — if it please you to give me your word ? ’ |
| 6 | You can reinforce the message by holding the leash close to the ground which will make it harder for the dog to stand up if it persistently tries to do so . |
| 7 | ‘ If it simply goes back to the parliament 's corridors , lots of hard work will be wasted . ’ |
| 8 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 9 | Rehydration can occur within four hours if the spadefoot is in water , but it can also take place , albeit more slowly , if it simply sits in or on damp soil . |
| 10 | This is obviously a wrong maxim , he points out , if it simply commends doing what one is most inclined to do . |
| 11 | Neither politicians at court nor governors in the colonies were expected to live on their salaries ; having outside interests would not cause any trouble if it simply supplemented their salaries , though it would be used as an additional reason to attack them if they followed policies the king disliked . |
| 12 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 13 | Mass education will be of little value if it simply increases the number of people who are pursuing their own selfish ends . |
| 14 | If Michael Ryan is n't around , if it simply looks impossible , the whole thing , I 'm on the next boat back to Belfast and over the border and safe in Dublin before you know it . ’ |
| 15 | As with any other expert 's report the accountant 's report will have to be disclosed as a condition precedent to calling him : the defendant 's solicitor will be entitled to object to the expense of such evidence if it simply deals with calculations the plaintiff 's solicitor could make himself . |
| 16 | Even if it eventually transpires that the Lorenz equations do not satisfy the conditions necessary to justify the rigorous analysis ( but see { 33 } ) , it is none the less true that a great many ( infinitely many ) homoclinic orbits do occur in the system though perhaps not distributed densely through all r-intervals . |
| 17 | But this is hardly a convincing argument when produced by an organisation that collects some £130 million , even if it also proposes to give those of its members whose works are performed outside ‘ significant venues ’ a flat fee of £75 a year . |
| 18 | Great suffering is usually identified with unhappiness for most people , if it also generates feelings of hopelessness , meaninglessness and despair . |
| 19 | A fall in oil prices lowers all energy prices and encourages economic growth but if it also re-establishes the dependence which made the two oil shocks so effective in curtailing growth , then nothing useful has been achieved . |
| 20 | It may mean changing your own procedures , but if it also means changing your bank balance for the better it may be well worth it . |
| 21 | The Empire army may include the Tzarina if it also includes at least one unit of Kislev troops . |
| 22 | ‘ Third World ’ will , therefore , be used in this book without ( further ) apology , or scare quotes , as a positive term of radical critique even if it also necessarily signals its negative sense of economic dependency and exploitation . |
| 23 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 24 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 25 | A business which wishes to exclude liability vis-ρa-vis its business customers therefore needs two different sets of terms , if it also deals with consumers . |
| 26 | Your detector will periodically switch itself off and on if this happens , and this can be very annoying … particularly if it automatically tests the batteries each time it comes on ! |
| 27 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
| 28 | If an SFA member which has private customers is itself asked to agree to be a market counterparty of another SFA member , it can agree only if it reasonably believes that its own customers will still be protected . |
| 29 | The positioning of the reference card does need to be fairly accurate if it nearly fills the space allotted . |
| 30 | The use of OPENOUT destroys the contents of the file if it previously existed . |