Example sentences of "if you [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 With most birds , unless they 're very stubborn , if you increase the distance between perch and glove , little by little , they will readily fly the extra distance .
2 If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward .
3 Surely if you increase the fee from £200 to £600 you may severely suffer from overkill , as I have recently witnessed in my voluntary work for another organisation .
4 So if you increase the amount of oxygen present , what happens then ?
5 And again you see if you increase the load , can you take up both , back pick them up again .
6 If you situate the cable tidy as close to your tank as possible , you can cut the wires on your equipment fairly short , to get rid of all those unsightly trailing cables .
7 If you push the lever down and leave it there the flaps will reach their maximum angle and the selector will automatically jump back into neutral so that the hydraulic circuit can idle .
8 And if you 're playing a tape back which was recorded off air what happens if you push the text button ?
9 If you repaid the advance , I 'm sure they 'd let you off the hook . ’
10 Perhaps it is more courageous to break a promise if it means salvaging the economy , especially — and here cynicism rears its head too — if you stack the odds in favour of a pre-election tax give-away .
11 ( If you doubt the maths do remember that slides have to be processed at around £3.00 per roll and then mounted at around 20p per slide . )
12 Claims of up to £1,000 can be made in the small claims court , but in larger , more unusual cases you 'll probably need a solicitor whose fees will be paid by the hairdresser if you win the case .
13 Miners ' leaders committed to the baths heeded the advice of a mining engineer at the Royal Commission which resulted in the 1911 act , whose advice was : if you win the women to the cause of pithead baths you will win the baths .
14 Who goes first if you win the toss ?
15 You do n't get a cup if you win the league in first division do you ?
16 The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ?
17 In addition to the above methods of Review/ Recall it will be found both enjoyable and informative if you cultivate the habit of discussing reading with friends and teachers .
18 Yes , but Trading Standards are part of Public Protection , and if you lump the whole of Public Protection , you do n't get five percent do you ?
19 If you shake the box , the pieces will take up another arrangement .
20 Also , if you catch the doc in a bad mood and he or she hears you taking the mickey , there are lots of particularly nasty cures which can be prescribed , such as :
21 For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time .
22 Course , I 'll never talk to you again if you catch the big feller , but might make a fun afternoon .
23 Is , if you catch the joke ,
24 Er if you catch the corner of the bannister just as you 're going by , usually have a wrapper over anyway , but i it it is n't going to damage .
25 Grown near soft-coloured rock roses , such as Helianthemum ‘ Salmon Queen ’ , the contrast is more subtle but no less effective , especially if you plant the prostrate , greeny-grey-leaved E. myrsinites so that it scrambles among them .
26 If you exclude the eight hours on average spent in bed each night , then you could be spending around 65 per cent of your entire waking life in one form of sedentary position or another .
27 In any case , the essential point is that the government 's running costs greatly exceed its income , if you exclude the money gained from selling fishing licences .
28 And if you exclude the points of discontinuity , then the bits in between often from minus infinity up to plus infinity
29 And if you died the would be paid .
30 If you use the covenant form attached to this leaflet you can make each annual payment at any time , or by any instalments , you wish as long as you make the full annual payment by the end of each 12-month period .
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