Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offeror must not employ any " strong-arm tactics " to prevent the board of the target from making an announcement or requesting a suspension of listing if it thinks it appropriate . |
| 2 | It is no use having a racket for volleying if it does n't help other parts of your game . ’ |
| 3 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 4 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 5 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 6 | The Bundestag is due to vote on June 20th , the Bundesrat the next day , although the upper house can not stop the lower one from leaving if it wants to . |
| 7 | In discussing if it existed . |
| 8 | Before he was murdered on 24 March 1980 , Romero made two fundamental statements : he declared that the church supported the legitimate right to insurrectional violence against a dictatorship in August 1979 and , only a day before he was shot dead while holding a mass in San Salvador , he called on members of the army and security forces to refrain from shooting if it ran contrary to their conscience . |