Example sentences of "if the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 If the terrain is undulating it is also important to peg the net tight to the ground in the bottom of the hollows for otherwise rabbits will escape beneath the net .
2 The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) .
3 If the air is liquid , what temperature is it going to be at ?
4 If the air is pollution-free , your consumption of it does not interfere with our consumption of it .
5 If the air is damp .
6 The years were long , the company was colourful , and if the air was raw , well , did n't that lend a zest of danger to the enterprise ?
7 It is therefore important to know how well death rates indicate disease rates ; if the link is weak , this would be very significant to resource managers .
8 If the link is being removed , the user will no longer have automatic access to your modules .
9 The public are n't convince , if the candidate is n't convinced it 's going to be difficult for everybody .
10 When there is an appeal from the decision of the benchers , the judges of the Common Pleas join in sitting upon that appeal ; and if the candidate be called to the Bar , I say , he is called to the Bar — by the judges of the Common Pleas .
11 If the rail was surface-mounted , simply lever it off as gently as you can using packing between lever and wall to protect the plaster .
12 If the emergency is so important , why are not the penalties for these aggravated offences equally applicable in Scotland ?
13 If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it .
14 Indoors , everything is under more control and camcorder operations can be pre-planned to a greater extent , particularly if the location is in your own home or some other familiar setting .
15 So , unless there is some once only event going on — such as little green men arriving from outer space — restrain your enthusiasm and take a look round first , especially if the location is completely new to you .
16 If the strike is off-centre , the material will not break .
17 If the household was identical to the register entry , the elector on whose account the address had been selected had effectively been selected at random , and was therefore nominated for interview .
18 ( 2 ) The adequacy of pension funding Whether or not an insurer will wish to exclude warranties relating to funding adequacy will depend on whether a recent valuation is available from the managers of the fund and whether the vendor can claim against the valuation if the funding is shown subsequently to be inadequate .
19 This means that if the ice is not too steep then the first of the down points will come in contact as well as the front points , creating a more stable platform .
20 We 'll need all the cold we can get if the ice is to be firm enough for the plane to land . ’
21 Hence if the current is everywhere in the azimuthal direction the vector potential must be in the same direction too .
22 The reversal potential of that current should shift as the ion concentration shifts , if the current is carrying is being carried by tha by that ion .
23 In spoken language interpreting it is claimed that the interpreter has to improve his memory ability and his tolerance of lag and therefore , if the loop is used at all , it must contain information specifically coded to carry language markers .
24 It turns out ( though we are not going to prove it here ) that the exact shape of the current loop is immaterial ( not unreasonable if the loop is far away ) and in the general case we only need to replace unc by S , the area of the loop .
25 He refused , however , to give the isotopic content of the exported material — information that is needed to work out if the plutonium is of weapons grade .
26 If the plutonium were to fall into the wrong hands the results could be catastrophic .
27 ‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration .
28 If the mortal was able to stop her doing this , the estrie would die .
29 If the part was n't already over-subscribed , you could be the Mad Woman of the district .
30 In fact , if the course is to be ready for the opening of the season a start will have to be made at once .
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