Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [verb] if " in BNC.

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1 The prospects for disposal of the whole building are severely limited if a third of it is subject to a subtenancy .
2 The opportunities to learn from experience are greatly increased if the normal everyday things which happen to you are supplemented by extra experiences that you create .
3 Second , those who report the presence of such a condition are then asked if it limits their activities in any way .
4 Will the historian of the future be adequately served if only the internal reports profiling donors survive ?
5 The Freight Transport Association is now wondering if the government will increase the car speed limit in line with Europe , as motoring organisations have been suggesting .
6 There are many results on reputation effects in this context , but these show that entry is always deterred if the time horizon is sufficiently long .
7 If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " .
8 The use of an experienced Patent Agent is highly recommended if a patent application is being considered .
9 S 159(2) ( C ) , ICTA 1988 is quite specific in stating that availability as a pool car is only granted if ‘ it was in that year not normally kept overnight on or in the vicinity of any residential premises where any of the employees was residing , except while being kept overnight on premises occupied by the person making the car available to them ’ .
10 • The Japanese motoring industry is meanwhile considering if it should slow down its expansion into the luxury car market , due to the Gulf crisis hitting fuel prices .
11 As well as providing a fascinating insight into the world of nature , the six titles in Pendulum 's Discovery Video Wildlife Collection drive home the message that action is desperately needed if our environment and its wildlife are to be saved from eventual destruction .
12 The result was indeed improved if , of necessity , very basic housing , at a rent low enough for the very poor to pay .
13 Arthur Browning , the son of Stamford architect Edward Browning , who was at the school in the 1870's , reports that ‘ The initiation of the new boys kissing the face of the ‘ Old Man' ’ , which forms the keystone of the church door , was seldom practised ’ and J. H. Boam of the same period recalled that the ceremony was only undertaken if a pupil had done anything to dishonour the school .
14 This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged .
15 The Shield of Cold is automatically dispelled if the wizard or unit he is with enters hand-to-hand combat , but otherwise remains in play for the remainder of the battle or until it is dispelled .
16 Practical help is also needed if they are to start again .
17 More public help is desperately needed if cuts in services are to be avoided .
18 But compensation is only granted if the adviser goes bust and is unable to pay back your money .
19 The right to apply for compensation is undoubtedly lost if the employer chooses not to seek to patent an invention which is nonetheless patentable .
20 A conference may be convened before a child is actually born if there is sufficient concern about future risk .
21 Since fleas do jump , of course , there is no certainty that they will not occasionally land on a chair , but the likelihood is greatly reduced if the dog is kept off furniture .
22 Good separation is only achieved if the flask is heated slowly to allow time for the equilibria to become established .
23 Fabia was still wondering if she needed to add anything to that when , as a complete switch , and taking her totally off guard , Ven threw the abrupt question , ‘ Are you married ? ’
24 Each part of the War Wagon is treated as a separate target , so the War Wagon/warhorses/crew are potentially hit if these actual models are within the template area .
25 Divisive questions like the Boer War were carefully avoided if at all possible .
26 Equally , in this period , the chances of becoming a beneficed clergyman were greatly enhanced if political interest was exerted on the candidate 's behalf in the case of crown patronages , while no politician-nobleman , with his own ecclesiastical patronage available , would be likely to ignore political considerations when placing a minister .
27 Any document which is to be served by post is properly served If sent by ordinary prepaid post .
28 Such approval is always required if the admissions authority seeks a reduction in the admissions limit , and thus a new standard number .
29 The representation of the interests of a particular group is greatly clarified if that group is also able to construct an antithetical image ( for the details of this argument see Miller 1984 ) .
30 The point is adequately made if we restrict gene values to single figures , that is if we allow them to range from -9 to +9 .
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