Example sentences of "[vb pp] if it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damage caused to non-business property can be claimed if it exceeds £275 in value . |
| 2 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 3 | Its transponder means it can be located if it becomes detached from its lift wire and umbilical . |
| 4 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 5 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |
| 6 | It is very important that the water remains in traps — and , in fact , the Building Regulations are contravened if it does n't . |
| 7 | An article is more likely to be accepted if it says something new but this might annoy some of his party leaders . |
| 8 | Even if reasonable steps have been taken to bring the exemption clause to the notice of the buyer , it will not be incorporated if it does not clearly cover the particular transaction in question . |
| 9 | Later on each of the souls pouring out of Narnia on Doomsday looks at Aslan as it comes through the Door-way of Death — to be saved if it loves , destroyed if it hates . |
| 10 | A company can be referred if it supplies more than 25 per cent of the total market . |
| 11 | Eliot wrote of the huge scale of the Russian Revolution and of the huge scale of its violence , pointing out that only one result could justify such huge and terrible expense : ‘ Such a cataclysm is justified if it produces something really new : Un [ sic ] oasis d'horreur dans un désert d'ennui ’ . |
| 12 | No political action may be undertaken if it makes a difference to the likelihood that a person will endorse one conception of the good or another , or to his chances of realizing his conception of the good , unless other actions are undertaken which cancel out such effects . |
| 13 | TIM WEBB believes such concern is misplaced if it fails to address cultural as well as environmental issues . |
| 14 | Dessent ( 1987 ) argues that the differentiated curriculum within a school will always be limited if it does not recognise , reward and value diversity among pupils . |
| 15 | I I 'm still a little bit puzzled about the thirteen hectares , is that footloose depending on where the settlement is placed if it 's placed within Greater York ? |
| 16 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 17 | The LIFESPAN user name should be used if it identifies the individual uniquely . |
| 18 | Nor , when a more viable alternative does appear , are they necessarily much bothered if it reopens issues peripheral to the main line of advance which seemed to be already settled . |
| 19 | In the simplest form the word will only be verified if it exists in the dictionary . |
| 20 | Behavioural : Changes in values so that other people 's behaviour that would previously not have been accepted becomes progressively more tolerated if it relates to addictive disease . |
| 21 | In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value . |
| 22 | In the industrial context , too , it might be relevant to consider whether your reputation will be damaged if it becomes widely known that you have had your work taken away from you . |
| 23 | The government insists that it will only be restarted if it passes stringent safety tests , and that a technical council composed of Russian , American , French and German experts will oversee its operation . |
| 24 | Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community . |
| 25 | Similarly , light tries to travel in a straight line , but the curvature of space-time near the sun causes the light from distant stars to be bent if it passes near the sun . |
| 26 | A company will be adversely affected if it suffers from low employee morale , for example . |
| 27 | I think it 's very undesirable that it should be seen as an issue of women versus men , because the chances of getting anywhere are reduced if it 's set up in that way . |
| 28 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 29 | The world is a patch-work of different colours : the animal is only camouflaged if it settles in the right place . |
| 30 | The wound is then debrided if it contains devitalised tissue . |