Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | If copies are sent less than 21 days before , they may be deemed to have been duly sent if so agreed by all the members entitled to attend and vote . |
| 2 | Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . |
| 3 | People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre . |
| 4 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 5 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 6 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 7 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 8 | The passing of the proscriptive Combination Acts in 1799 and 1800 is a well-known landmark in trade-union history , but they are much misunderstood if they are seen as placing trade unions in a novel position of illegality . |
| 9 | Directors are especially valued if they are also on the boards of other organisations , and these interlocks bridge the worlds of manufacturing , banking and investment institutions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Our children need to be aware that the more sexual partners a person has , the more likely they are to have sex with someone who is HIV+ , although the risks of infection are greatly reduced if they practise Safer Sex . |
| 12 | Certain kinds of object are better seen if they are lit from below . |
| 13 | The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems . |
| 14 | It is important to accept our children , single or married , without making them feel that they are less valued if they remain single , or if they marry someone who is not our choice . |
| 15 | The development of classical electromagnetic theory would have been much impaired if the action at a distance approach had been abandoned earlier in the century because of the superior progress of the field programme . |
| 16 | But Mr Fallon claimed most war disability pensions were tax free : ‘ They are only taxed if pensioners ’ income exceeds £4,000 a year . ’ |
| 17 | To avoid such unnecessary storage , compounds are only stored if the frequency of the least frequent word in the compound is above a threshold . |
| 18 | These checks are only justified if the person is likely to be handling large sums of money or to be exposed to the possibility of bribery . |
| 19 | ACET is a church-based organisation whose primary concern is practical care rather than counselling , and so these areas are only covered if they are raised by our clients . |
| 20 | The adventurers are only attacked if they try to vandalise the structure of the room , the piles of bones , or the seated figure , or if they try to take the wand from its skeletal hands . |
| 21 | Articular ends broken at the epiphyses are only counted if they exceed the number of ends lacking articular surfaces . |
| 22 | Different pronunciations of the same word are only added if they cover different portions of the input and therefore provide different word boundary segmentations . |
| 23 | In particular , the benefits are only guaranteed if the rate of tax on policyholders funds applicable to Life Insurance Companies remains at 25% . |
| 24 | Lower level rules are only used if the standard grammar is unable to cope with the input . |
| 25 | Debate and questioning are only threatening if an organization is weak . |
| 26 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 27 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 28 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 29 | There are some differences , however , and these are best understood if we consider first those who may vote in local elections and second those who may be elected as councillors . |
| 30 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |