Example sentences of "[adj] if it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 2 | It is tautological if all that is being said is that where there is no industrial capitalism , there are no industrial capitalists , and vice versa ; and it is fallacious if it is intended as a substantial proposition meaning that the limited growth in some Third World economies is due to the absence of innovators , intermediaries , risk-takers and the like . |
| 3 | But its food value is still very high if it is a vertebrate prey , such as a rodent , a bird or a fish . |
| 4 | It 's old Jackdaw 's — a thousand years old if it 's a day . ’ |
| 5 | If P is some occam term and x is a variable , we say that an occurrence of x in P is free if it is not in the scope of any declaration ( other than a parallel declaration ) of x in P , and bound otherwise . |
| 6 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 7 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 8 | It was certainly used in medieval times but it is doubtful if it is prehistoric , even though traces of Bronze Age and Iron Age fields lie on either side of it . |
| 9 | They also suggest that there is a critical literacy threshold of 40 per cent : in other words two-fifths of a country 's people need to be literate if it is to ‘ modernize ’ and make an ‘ economic miracle ’ possible . |
| 10 | The Chalice can be empty if it is too difficult for friends to carry with wine in it . |
| 11 | I mean it 's different if it 's clothes they need , good . |
| 12 | But I mean er , a man in his state of health never ought to be left to look after a woman like that , but different if it 's an ablebodied |
| 13 | Eaten raw in salads , it becomes more interesting if it is topped with herbs and a good quality olive oil . |
| 14 | Pasha Naiz and his death were evocative in consequential ways ; they were part of an idiom which was largely inexplicit ( though not unstructured ) but which has to be made explicit if it is to be understood by people who do not have it . |
| 15 | But even an issue such as camping can become rather central if it is of importance to one partner . |
| 16 | In two respects , however , the definition is wider than at common law in that the Act ( a ) renders a species dangerous if it poses a threat to property and ( b ) allows for a species to be considered dangerous if it is not commonly domesticated in Britain , even though it may be so domesticated overseas . |
| 17 | ‘ No book can be dangerous if it is well written ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Like any faculty , the psychic sense is more prominent if it is used and If the society in which an individual lives is conducive in its attitudes to the encouragement of such ability . |
| 19 | Denial : As with the primary illness , family members can not see their own addictive disease and may be exceedingly indignant if it is pointed out to them . |
| 20 | Does a reward become devalued if it is given routinely ? |
| 21 | Research has shown that we are normally not conscious that it takes place , but that we are uncomfortable if it is missing when we would expect it or present on inappropriate occasions — for example in a greeting from a complete stranger . |
| 22 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 23 | The report — which has taken more than a year to prepare in one of the most complex inquiries undertaken by Sir Anthony 's office — will address the question of when the department first became negligent if it is shown to have been aware of the possible difficulties . |
| 24 | My Lords , erm i legislation is complex and I agree that we should do what we can to keep a clear er , er to keep it clear and simple if it 's at all possible and erm er I agree though that one needs a fully up-to-date text of the nineteen sixty four Police Act in order to decipher every last dot and comma . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't mind doing a bit extra if it 's needed . ’ |
| 26 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 27 | ( Loss is serious if it is serious for the person who suffers it ) . |
| 28 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 29 | Other species from one particular microhabitat in the region may be over-represented in the predator assemblage if it is a favoured hunting area or under-represented if it is not ( see Append . |
| 30 | A coherent school policy on Standard English is possible if it is recognised that all these views are legitimate . |