Example sentences of "if [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll probably be in the latter being short if anyones on the lookout .
2 Effective anti-syphilitic drugs , the arsenicals and later penicillin , made prevention possible , though they could not effect a cure if damage to the brain had gone too far .
3 A vehicle will fail the test if damage to the windscreen exceeds 10 mm in zone ‘ A ’ — the critical area in front of the driver — and 40 mm in the remainder of the area swept by the windscreen wipers .
4 If present at the time of the tetanus anisomycin reduces the duration of LTP to 3–6 hours r103–105 .
5 Peculiars are by definition uncommon but they are worth searching for and if present in a case would strongly favour any remedies showing that same symptom .
6 They list the specific clauses for which the exemption is granted , and so-called ‘ black ’ clauses which if present in an agreement result in its losing the benefit of the exemption , and clauses which are not generally restrictive of competition and whose presence will not affect the exemption .
7 Certain chemical substances , if present in the mother 's body during the earlier weeks of development may have dire effect ( for example the thalidomide affair ) .
8 It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless .
9 For example , if definitions within a domain can be halved , i.e. reduced to an average of 11 words in length , the processing at the second level involves some 11 2 words , i.e. 121 or 25% of the previous total .
10 Relief is calculated by reference to the difference between an assumed rate bill for 1989–90 and the community charge which your authority would set if authorities in the area were spending in 1990–91 in line with assumptions made by the Government .
11 If Roger From the Practice was doing the post-mortem , thought Henry , he should be OK .
12 As it takes approximately three or four days to clear a personal cheque , more hotels are adopting the policy of only accepting personal cheques for payments in advance , or with seven day 's notice if payment of the bill is to be made by cheque .
13 He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed .
14 If copies of the previous accounts or report have been laid or delivered the revisions must be confined to the correction of those respects in which they did not comply with the Act and the making of any consequential alterations .
15 If level of the course was mentioned , it was usually to indicate that basic , rather than advanced training , was wanted :
16 But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two .
17 The present case suggests that not only are counsel under a duty to point out errors they observe but , citing Donoghue , that ‘ it would be helpful ’ if counsel for the prosecution were to make a check list of essential directions and draw attention to any omissions before the retirement of the jury .
18 If institutions like the EEC are to play an effective part in rural development — as is clearly desirable — they must have a highly flexible yet integrated approach to the diverse problems that exist .
19 Society was changing rapidly even if institutions like the Anglo-dominated education system were slow to admit it .
20 While we have strong reserves to support the pound it is likely Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh Pemberton would advise a Labour Chancellor to combine firm words with firm deeds if support from the Bundesbank and our other exchange rate mechanism partners is to be assured and a drawn-out war of attrition avoided .
21 If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin .
22 Garages are lovely things to have , if they are attached to the house , but can be a source of grief if part of a block that is situated away from the property .
23 The Target , if part of a larger group , will have depended on the group for certain services ( such as accounting and computer services ) , which it will now have to provide for itself .
24 If part of the credit for a breakthrough could be claimed by Mr Hussein , and so induce him to pull his army out of Kuwait , why not solve two problems in a single bloodless stroke ?
25 The snag is that a clause in the civil settlement allows Exxon to withdraw from the entire agreement if part of the plea bargain is rejected by the courts .
26 What happens if part of the intersegmental membrane is missing ?
27 To this end , the analytical department is designing on-line analysers , eg on-line gas chromatography , which can analyse products and intermediates in ‘ real time ’ , and if part of the process does not attain the quality required the computer will work out the modifications needed before the process can continue .
28 If part of the deep ecologist 's rationale for saving wilderness is so that future generations of humans can savour the orgiastic blood of the hunt ( as Ortega y Gasset describes the recreational slaughter of wild animals ) , animal liberationists can and should unashamedly applaud the efforts to preserve , but not the reasons for doing so .
29 You should not worry if part of the pill comes out as well , just wait and watch the child 's condition .
30 Even if part of the tail is lost , the victim survives and swims away to safety .
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