Example sentences of "if [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no-one is connected , use procedure 2 . |
| 2 | From this it can be seen that recruitment will be most effective if everyone is involved and understands the problem . |
| 3 | If everyone is screened for genetic disorders , for which there may be no cures , what are those people then to do , and who is to have access to the information — prospective employers , insurers ? |
| 4 | Young adults ( aged 16–29 ) amount to only 5 per cent of the disabled population if everyone is included , a little more than that among the most severely impaired . |
| 5 | ONE OF the most important lessons of game theory is that even if everyone is agreed on the most desirable course of action — for example , nuclear disarmament — a collection of individuals or nations acting independently may find it difficult to achieve the most desirable aims . |
| 6 | If nothing is done , the regulations already passed will continue improving air quality until the mid-1990s but then the growth in population , and car numbers , will send pollution rising again , indefinitely . ’ |
| 7 | If nothing is done there , the government 's saying in effect , ‘ Here 's a machete and a matchbox ; , get on with it . ’ |
| 8 | Even this amount of work will cost them £420 but , if nothing is done , chairman Peter Hobbs warned ‘ The mound will become a bigger and bigger eyesore . ’ |
| 9 | If nothing is done , the game will degenerate into absurdity — and one of those hooligans we are looking to stamp out may take out his frustrations on the officials . |
| 10 | Despite the grave financial situation that Italy is in today , and despite the total suspension of spending on public works , parliament has indicated that Venice should have absolute priority on account of the grave risk of permanent damage if nothing is done . |
| 11 | Like many other colleges and educational establishments , Gateshead college is worried about that trend and thinks that it will increase in the future , particularly if nothing is done . |
| 12 | But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual . |
| 13 | They fear that if nothing is done , the fish will disappear altogether . |
| 14 | If nothing is done soon this hill will just stagnate . ’ |
| 15 | 2,500 tons of food is at risk from shelling … if nothing is done , we will stop deliveries in two more days because we do n't have any place to put it . ’ |
| 16 | In figure 7.6 the capacitances to earth are represented as lumped together from nodes A , B , C and D. Notice that if nothing is done about these capacitances , they act in pairs across the arms of the bridge ; for example , the reactance of C A in series with that of C B is in parallel with the impedance Z 1 . |
| 17 | Even if nothing is said specifically , there is an implied term in your employment contract that you owe a duty to exercise reasonable care and skill in carrying out your job . |
| 18 | If nothing is specified , it is still important to discover what steps are open to you to challenge your employer 's judgment . |
| 19 | If nothing is known about the distribution of hits in the file , the cylinder index should be placed in the centre of the file area . |
| 20 | This is never the best solution ; as pointed out above , the centre of the file is the logical position if nothing is known about hit pattern . |
| 21 | If nothing is agreed about notice , the common law implies a term into the contract that it can be brought to an end if ‘ reasonable notice ’ is given . |
| 22 | If nothing is inserted in the legislation , that will happen again . |
| 23 | We have 16 other good players here and you just have to get on with things if someone is ruled out . |
| 24 | If someone is asked a question and replies yes or no it will be understood that the question is now answered and that there is nothing more to be said . |
| 25 | The entire fabric and balance of power within the group may be shattered if someone is transferred or promoted . |
| 26 | ‘ If someone is determined to prevent an agreement or can not agree then there wo n't be one . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In any case , if someone is determined to go in the sea , for whatever reason , they can just hop over the wall , which is only two or three feet high . |
| 28 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 29 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 30 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |