Example sentences of "if it can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have problems in meeting the instalment plan which the council gives you , you should ask if it can be changed . |
| 2 | In his pre-conference interview this weekend the Labour leader demonstrated a restrained confidence and authority which is new and , if it can be maintained in the heat of battle , likely to prove appealing to the sort of people whose votes he must win . |
| 3 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 4 | The building owner must establish whether the structure will provide an acceptable period of fire resistance in its unmodified state or if it can be simply modified to meet mandatory requirements . |
| 5 | He is unlikely to be satisfied with an offer to re-run the reselection procedure if it can be proved that there have been any serious breaches of the party 's rules . |
| 6 | Yet , if it can be fixed , it would probably be safer to have Iran inside such an arrangement than outside it . |
| 7 | They want ties that link them more to each other — through mutual defence pacts — and to the West , if it can be done without infuriating the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | It is usually paid for via state-funded organisations and can at least be relied on even if it can be at times both economically and spiritually unrewarding . |
| 9 | Discrimination in education , as in other spheres covered by the Act such as employment ( see Chapter 9 ) is also permissible if it can be shown to be ‘ justifiable ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ If it can be made , Pringle 's will make it . |
| 11 | A second possible way in which the existence of A-X and B-Y associations might facilitate the discrimination between A and B follows if it can be allowed that different associations might differ in the ease with which they are remembered . |
| 12 | I 'd not have it happen again if it can be avoided in honour . ’ |
| 13 | To regard homosexuality as a social construction and nothing more is , potentially , to put another weapon in the hands of those who would like to see it quite literally erased from the world — if it can be constructed , then it can be deconstructed , so what are all those queers still doing here ? |
| 14 | Courses of treatment vary from one to seven days and although it is always preferable to examine the male sexual partner of an infected woman , because of the difficulties of making the diagnosis in men it is sometimes justifiable to treat the male without confirming the diagnosis , particularly if it can be shown that reinfection has taken place . |
| 15 | It 's also worth looking at your present routine to see if it can be streamlined . |
| 16 | ‘ If it can be done , it should be done . ’ |
| 17 | If it can be , and if by so doing , the patient would be able to enjoy a further period of life without increased discomfort , then the cure or palliative measure should be adopted . |
| 18 | At this point , an isolated plantation will be noticed up on the hillside to the left , and if it can be reached without damaging walls it should be . |
| 19 | And between these extremes there is a range of attitudes including the position of those who can accept whaling in principle if it can be made more humane in practice . |
| 20 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 21 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |
| 22 | not sure even if it can be done : |
| 23 | The resulting loss in crop productivity is grave cause for immediate concern , even if it can be partially offset by more intensive use of fertilisers . |
| 24 | I believe its main ingredient was quinine and doubt if it can be obtained today . |
| 25 | Perhaps this will increase if it can be shown , in a cost minimisation analysis , to be equally effective but of lower cost . |
| 26 | If it is possible to generalize from this at all , it is that presence of predator remains in a fossil assemblage gives no indication of method of origin of the assemblage , even if it can be shown to be accumulated by a predator . |
| 27 | If a literate person is asked whether the use of a surface anaphor is acceptable , they will tend to say ‘ yes if it can be interpreted by Sag & Hankamer 's copying in process and ‘ no ’ if it can not . |
| 28 | Death is not uncommon , but an anti-venin has now been produced and is effective if it can be used in time . |
| 29 | A religion can not possibly serve the world if it can be understood only by people who have been especially educated . |
| 30 | McGegan 's problem ( if it can be considered one ) is that his own orchestra , Philharmonia Baroque , is based in Los Angeles , and is therefore too expensive to bring annually to Göttingen . |