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

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1 ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’
2 Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ?
3 I tell you what you 'll give 'em till next Tuesday and if it do n't come by then you still , you can just cancel it save up
4 The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders .
5 Persistent hypertension was treated by standard methods and if it did not resolve then the dose of the study drug was reduced .
6 But it will have little impact on crime and if it serves merely as a pretext for disarming honest citizens , it will prove a serious mistake .
7 Yeah , buy it in innocence and if it 's been robbed the police confiscate off you you get a piece of paper saying that they 've got it , and that 's it you 've you 've got nothing !
8 But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on .
9 The first person has to start skipping in the middle and everybody says H P W R and if it landed on P the next person would have to skip fast .
10 Then H P W R and if it lands on P you have to go really fast .
11 The consumer will be informed to keep the product away from his eyes but if it does get in the eyes , to wash them out and seek medical advice .
12 The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle .
13 Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county .
14 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 .
15 Coun Dennis Howey told the planning committee that if it closed then local butchers and farmers would have to travel to Darlington and York .
16 The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley .
17 In the Western Fells region covered by the FRCC Scafell , Dow and Eskdale Guide , Al Phizaclea continues to explore nooks and crannies with the philosophy that if it does n't move and is n't already in the guide then it must be climbed .
18 It worked on mice and if it works on humans it will be just what we 've been waiting for .
19 coach and if it comes out like Helen and Pete like that and they 're , they 're gone and the others have n't , no wonder it 's been up on your wall
20 When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad .
21 This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible .
22 … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated .
23 Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament .
24 Equally , however , if they are essentially operating as traditional institutions and if it does succeed as a multi-purpose agency , it begs the question whether UDCs were necessary in the first place .
25 So if food consumption decreases there is a danger of malnutrition and if it continues one of obesity ( with attendant heart problems ) .
26 The maximum loss ( C + P ) is incurred if the share price is equal to the exercise price at expiry but profits will be made if it is lower than E - C - P and if it rises above E + C + P. This is plainly superior to the reverse butterfly spread illustrated in Fig. 7.10(b) as there are no restrictions upon the potential profit ( only in the case of a security price fall where the maximum profit will be E - P - C , but which is still superior to the profit made in the same event with the reverse butterfly spread ) .
27 And they say you have to send in some of your product and then they come round to your stand and if it does n't comply they just take it off your stand which is our whole merchandise really .
28 Money supply is exogenous ( independently determined ) if it can be fixed by the authorities and if it does not vary with aggregate demand and interest rates .
29 However , there exists the danger that ‘ issues ’ or ‘ problems ’ seen as relevant to gay groups outside of Ireland may be automatically ‘ adopted ’ here with the problem and its solution neatly packaged without first questioning whether it applies to the Irish gay experience and if it does , whether the proxy solutions are a help or a hindrance to the developing gay and lesbian psyche here .
30 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 .
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