Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A party is regarded as acquiring control if it has the possibility of exercising " decisive influence " on another party in particular by ownership or the right to use all or part of the assets of the other party , or rights which confer decisive influence on the composition , voting or decisions of the other party 's board of directors or of its shareholders ' meetings . |
| 2 | Pick , squeeze seeds and pulp into a container and leave , adding water if it looks like drying out . |
| 3 | IBM made the announcement at the Semiconductor Industry Association meeting in San Jose , where it said that its Technology Products unit would have to start shuttering plants if it did n't succeed in its new initiative of selling chips to other vendors and offering them on the merchant market . |
| 4 | The Whitbread brewing group was ruffled by stories it would be forced , under US legislation , to sell its US drink importing operations if it continued a trans-Atlantic restaurant build-up . |
| 5 | Co-operative R&D may also reduce the costs of doing research if it eliminates wasteful duplication of R&D projects , and , to the extent that co-operating firms apply their research in a wider range of output markets , cooperative R&D ventures may undertake more productive research . |
| 6 | But having rejected a compromise which , for boxing , was about as good as it gets , he ca n't continue claiming innocence if it leads to the heavyweight division again disintegrating into chaos . |