Example sentences of "this [be] [adj] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this are clear if we examine the work of two well known urban sociologists , Pahl and Saunders . |
| 2 | This is essential if renewable resources like forests are to be maintained in a state that is conducive to future use . |
| 3 | By means of the Alexander Technique I have acquired an awareness of where my body is in space which means I am now able to control my muscle tension by means of my brain ; this is essential if I was ever to maintain a posture without straining my body unconsciously . |
| 4 | This is essential if the head is to be free in relation to the rest of the body , so that the Primary Control can perform its natural function . |
| 5 | This is essential if you know it affects you badly . |
| 6 | This is essential if quite large numbers of candidates will be coming during the day as they will need to be organized and someone will have to handle any unforeseen changes in schedule . |
| 7 | This is essential if high levels are used , and the excess can not be ducted out of the room . |
| 8 | This is essential if the scientific quality of studies of biodiversity at the ecosystem and genetic level is not to be compromised . |
| 9 | This is essential if cysts or pituitary macroadenomas not secreting prolactin are to be identified and treated appropriately . |
| 10 | This is essential if assessment is to fulfil its promise of meeting better the needs of older people and their carers . |
| 11 | This is essential if the statement is to be unambiguous . |
| 12 | The vagueness of this is understandable if it was simply intended to encourage the raising of a fleet before the meeting discussed it , and the archbishop later inserted with his own hand into a version of this chapter the words " if it is decided upon " . |
| 13 | This is legitimate if we are tracing the evolution of contemporary attitudes to religion , or studying the history of ideas ; but if we wish to regain an impression of eighteenth century people as a whole we need to recall that , even among educated men ( themselves a very small minority ) , intellects cast in the mould of David Hume and Tom Paine were exceedingly rare , however great their later influence may have been . |
| 14 | And this is nice if you just use a capful in a drawn bath . |
| 15 | Of course this is tricky if you 're driving , but ask your passengers to distract you with an Ossianic ballad to keep you from thinking about the importance of Santa Claus Land and The Happy Haggis takeaway to our great Scottish heritage . |
| 16 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 17 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |
| 18 | All this is possible if you book a car through Enterprise to be collected at your arrival airport , for the duration of your holiday . |
| 19 | During a working visit to the Soviet Union on April 28-29 , de Maizière announced after talks with Soviet President Gorbachev that the latter continued to insist that " East Germany should not become a member of NATO , whereas our position is that this is possible if NATO develops a new strategy and structures " . |
| 20 | This is useful if the retailer wants to introduce a new product , or line of products . |
| 21 | This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters . |
| 22 | This is useful if the user can not remember the precise range of options on each page ( enter the option number or letter at ‘ Your Option : ’ ) . |
| 23 | The symptoms are moving in the opposite direction to suppression and this is necessary if a long-lasting cure is to be achieved . |
| 24 | This is important if you are to learn whether you have achieved your objectives and what should have been handled differently . |
| 25 | This is important if you are to gain a proper understanding of how to obtain the best results from your new machine , and it also contains some cautionary notes to help you avoid accidentally damaging it through misuse . |
| 26 | This is important if you plan to use the tacker overhead , as we did . |
| 27 | Certainly this is desirable if the Target shares have accrued a substantial gain . |
| 28 | This is obvious if we consider societies which have systems of partible inheritance , where resources are divided equally between the surviving children on the parents ' death . |
| 29 | This is inevitable if an issue is to be constituted in terms of legal discourse . |
| 30 | This is unlikely if those wearing the smocks are in the process of arguing about the lunch-break rota , or sniggering over who will go and frighten away the walker from the climber 's rope display . |