Example sentences of "if the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the numbers of deaths each month has risen to equal or exceed the number of new diagnoses , the numbers needing care will continue to rise fast , even if the number of new cases reported in official figures is relatively constant or falling . |
| 2 | For example , if the ‘ soldier ’ cells are weakened , the chest can be infected . |
| 3 | Until then an individual could obtain income tax relief for a gift to charity only if the gift was made under a Deed of Covenant . |
| 4 | Payments qualify for tax relief under gift Aid only if the donation is for £600 or more . |
| 5 | Also , if the DA is coming to the end of his/her four-year term , seeking the death penalty may improve their chances of re-election . |
| 6 | But if the books are arranged by subject , there is no certainty that The Renaissance will be put under ‘ art criticism ’ . |
| 7 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 8 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 9 | So vivid a response by a great poet must inspire respect and possibly a curiosity to see if the reader can match the experience . |
| 10 | One has only to imagine what would happen if the books on the shelf behind the sitter 's head were upright , like the others , to realize on what delicate adjustments the solidity of this amazing structure depends … |
| 11 | The auction catalogue can also quote from other authorities , which will be inevitable in a case where a scholar has written a catalogue raisonné , and advantageous if the context of the work is made clearer by the artist 's correspondence or other publications . |
| 12 | It may , for example , have been part of a private collection which itself was catalogued , especially if the collector in question was rich . |
| 13 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 14 | If the aim of an exhibition is political , the evaluation of art on purely aesthetic grounds is possible , but considered an irrelevance by the exhibitors . |
| 15 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 16 | If the term ‘ Abstract Expressionist ’ means anything verifiable , it means painterliness : loose , rapid handling , or the look of it ; masses that blot and fuse instead of shapes that stay distinct ; large , conspicuous rhythms ; broken color ; uneven saturations or densities of paint ; exhibited brush , knife , finger or rag marks — in short a constellation of physical features like those defined by Wölflinn when he extracted his notion of the Malerische from Baroque art . |
| 17 | Indeed , if the story enacted in a picture is not known , quite wrong inferences can be drawn from what is perceived . |
| 18 | All this is felt to testify , not just to a general rankness and decay , but to a conflagration of another kind — to what will happen if the political and racial tensions of the island can no longer be contained . |
| 19 | But if the work is oral history , it is literature too — a disclosure of predicament and bereavement . |
| 20 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 21 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 22 | Even if the world looked different from that height , even if it looked changed , even if what on the ground seemed important was transformed into insignificance . |
| 23 | A challenging attitude on his part , if the story in question is correct . |
| 24 | It is as if the war , crisis , living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end . |
| 25 | If the state was not present in his novels from the first , it is there in One Fat Englishman , and in Jake 's Thing . |
| 26 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 27 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
| 28 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 29 | They do great things because they are great , if the great things come along . |
| 30 | This may prove more effective if the girl playing the wife has no idea of what the scene is going to be about . |