Example sentences of "[coord] if it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has a residual power to make an appointment if the child has sufficient understanding to give instructions himself and wishes to do so or if it considers that it would be in the child 's best interests to be legally represented ( s41(3) ( 4 ) ( a ) and ( b ) ) . |
| 2 | Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents . |
| 3 | If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated . |
| 4 | This section gives relief in respect of a disposition made on the occasion of the dissolution of the marriage or if it varies a disposition made on that occasion . |
| 5 | ( d ) Action on receipt of replies First peruse each reply carefully , consider its significance ; and if the reply is benign , pass on to the next , but before you do , tick the answer in the margin , or if it calls for clarification or action , put a cross in the margin , so that when you have considered every reply , you can go over them all comprehensively , and take whatever action is called for . |
| 6 | Sadly , it no longer spouts , or if it does it has a frequency measured in years . |
| 7 | These include sending a copy of the intended written resolution to the auditors for confirmation that the resolution does not concern them as auditors , or if it does , that a general meeting need not be held . |
| 8 | Of course exactly that case never occurs , or if it does it occurs in such a way that it is not recognized as being a repeat run of the previous bitter experience . |
| 9 | If externalism is a sound stance , then the argument from error is irrelevant ; for it does no more than elaborate on a defective ( though traditional ) approach to epistemology or if it does more , it succeeds only in showing how that defective approach must lead to scepticism . |
| 10 | All too often this method fails to reach the stowaway pests , or if it does , it fails to kill them . |
| 11 | It will occur all the more if there is residual moisture in the cavity arising from the building process , or if it seeps in either from inside the house or from some external source . |
| 12 | But if it does n't ease off , or if it gets worse , you must see your doctor . |
| 13 | If " father " today means for many people a non-existent person , a drunkard , someone unkind or hateful , or if it denotes for others an exclusion of women , then it needs to be appropriately translated in different terms . |
| 14 | If walking down streets teeming with non-residents induces mild panic , or if it strikes you as undignified to whizz around a museum in 10 minutes , because entry is part of the combination ticket you have bought from the tourist office , then forget Bruges . |
| 15 | Never take the dog 's food away if you discover that it has misbehaved , or if it refuses to sit . |
| 16 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 17 | Thus , if the government receives tax payments from , or if it sells government debt to , the private sector the proceeds will act to reduce the money market 's cash position . |
| 18 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 19 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 20 | The only thing if it 's a bargain or if it looks nice or you need something new . |
| 21 | The basic rule is that if the second syllable of the verb contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that second syllable is stressed . |
| 22 | Here , if the final syllable contains a short vowel or , it is unstressed ; if the syllable preceding this final syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that middle syllable will be stressed . |
| 23 | If the final syllable of the stem contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that syllable receives the stress . |
| 24 | I think it helps if you can identify whether the the erm depression is just caused by erm the circumstances round about you which can be alleviated by changing them or if it 's caused by eating habits or erm or erm hormones or chemical imbalances in , I 've suffered , I think , from all them as well ! |
| 25 | So when we , you see there 's no good putting anything in there erm or doing anything with it if we 're not going to use it or if it 's got ta come down in another year or two . |
| 26 | The investor could back his or her judgement by either buying the share itself or if it exists , the option on the share . |
| 27 | On the one hand , it would seem that if a claim can be framed as one in contract or tort , or if it concerns a private legal right , it need not be brought under Ord. 53 even if the very ground on which the respondent 's action is alleged to be a tort or breach of contract is that it was illegal in a public law sense . |
| 28 | Or if it stands near a town , the political planners swarm into the house , turn it into a rabbit-warren of black-hatted officers of This and That , and the park becomes a site for some ‘ overspill ’ — a word as beastly as the thing it describes . |
| 29 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 30 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |