Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] if it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He leapt forward and slashed at Yuan 's neck , a circular cut which would have beheaded the Manchu if it had connected .
3 These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years .
4 However , when Moscow threatened war on the Rada if it continued to collaborate with Kaledin and to refuse to allow the Red Army to cross Ukrainian territory to attack the White forces , the anti-Bolsheviks read out the ultimatum to the shocked delegates .
5 A complete split was also threatened when the North branch voted to withdraw from the BSP if it affiliated to the Labour Party ( ibid. 4 August 14 ) .
6 According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context .
7 Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates .
8 Dec. 31 , 1996 : Deadline for decision on whether and when to move to stage three of EMU , if a majority of countries had achieved sufficient convergence of their economies ; deadline for UK to notify the EC if it intends moving to stage three of EMU .
9 Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter .
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