Example sentences of "if it [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never take the dog 's food away if you discover that it has misbehaved , or if it refuses to sit . |
| 2 | If the acquiring company refuses to provide , or is incapable of providing , clear instructions , if it refuses to accept and/or pay for the equipment or software , if it tampers with the programs , misuses them and allows employees to copy them freely , the supplier will need to take action . |
| 3 | if it happens to give or here , and it does nay get away right |
| 4 | If it requires to seize anything with the same organ , its tongue will then divide and become forked . |
| 5 | If it proposes to amend the key diagram such that it does not indicate that the County Council intends to construct a blue route , which is what the key diagram indicates to me at the moment , then the ball game becomes very different . |
| 6 | If it breaks do n't worry , the edge of the knitting wo n't come undone , but do remove all the thread . |
| 7 | ‘ If it saves standing in queues , why not ? ’ |
| 8 | If it continues to bleed , I 'll have to apply a tourniquet . ’ |
| 9 | But if it continues to gain in stature , as is the case at the moment , then the necessary resources ought to be put into it by those who hold the purse-strings of archaeology . |
| 10 | THE BBC need not worry about its future if it continues to show programmes like Arnold Wesker 's play Roots . |
| 11 | If it continues to abdicate its responsibilities then the British government must act immediately in its place . |
| 12 | It managed to hold its own yesterday and if it continues to strengthen the pundits reckon we could be due for another prolonged rally in shares in the New Year . |
| 13 | We became good friends and I remember his comments one day when we were discussing the ever-rising cost of living ; Lawren said , wrinkling that high forehead under the white mane of hair , ‘ This high cost of living worries me ; one of these days , if it continues to rise , I 'll have to dip into capital ! ’ |
| 14 | A more radical change may be on the way : a report by the UK Institute of Health Services Management concludes that ‘ General taxation must be reconsidered as the major funding of the National Health Service if it continues to fail to deliver adequate levels of resources ’ . |
| 15 | And although the scheme has achieved its initial objectives it presently has 85 students at 11 organisations with the majority at the National Audit Office the Institute ‘ may need to re-examine its general approach to industrial and commercial organisations ’ , if it hopes to extend the range of its training opportunities . |
| 16 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 17 | ‘ It was like this when he won the Queen Elizabeth last year so I wo n't mind if it keeps pouring down for him or Lochsong , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If it feels compelled to produce its poison , it does so instantaneously by forcing its ribs outwards with such vigour that they break its skin and rip open the poison glands . |
| 19 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ If it becomes blocked over here , it can be dealt with . |
| 21 | It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , if it becomes known the lass left a child behind , the authorities will be visitin' you , and then you 'll be able to get rid of her . ’ |
| 23 | If it manages to kill me in my sleep one night , you 'll be as badly off as you were before . ’ |
| 24 | of its income from the tax , even if it manages to achieve 100 per cent . |
| 25 | If it manages to make that charge stick , it will have got itself a powerful vote-winner . |
| 26 | So if it helps do n't bring it back . |
| 27 | ‘ If it helps reassure you , Tsu Ma , I will say to you what I have already said both to Wu Shih and Wei Feng . |
| 28 | We are prepared to consider the decoy as a permanent option if it helps to slow people down and save lives . ’ |
| 29 | Certain industries will demand regulation if it helps to improve the position of the firms within them . |
| 30 | If it helps to view the circus as a horror show then it 's Carry on Screaming . |