If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If you do use a cold frame be sure that its ventilation is adequate.

If the temperature is controlled properly, the avocado will delay its ripening until needed.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.

If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If this threefold division of costs were to have its counterpart in the actual rates of charge for service, as it actually does have in some rates, there would result a three-part rate for any one class of service.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

If T is the total `` length '' of the process, its feed state may be denoted by a vector p(T) and the product state by p(Q).

If anti-Semitism was on trial in Jerusalem, why was it not identified, and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press, in its connection with the activities of Eichmann's Department of Jewish Affairs, as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non-police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany, as well as in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary??

If, as a home movie maker, you shoot the inevitable footage of your child taking its first steps, you have merely recorded an historical event.

If death receives more than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives less than its share, the gift of the life eternal through Christ begins to look like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal, i.e., created, existence.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

If a man totally ignorant of America were to judge our land and its civilization based on Hollywood alone, what conclusions do you think he might come to??

If you got too many people investing by this method, their operations would begin to affect stock prices, and thus throw the charts off.

If it continues indefinitely it is nearly a statistical certainty that a mistake will be made and that the devastation will begin ''.

If activated cytotoxic CD8 < sup >+</ sup > T cells recognize them, the T cells begin to secrete various toxins that cause the lysis or apoptosis of the infected cell.

If the valid element indices begin at 0, the constant B is simply the address of the first element of the array.

If the pressure in a system remains constant ( isobaric ), a vapor at saturation temperature will begin to condense into its liquid phase as thermal energy ( heat ) is removed.

If all water flow has stopped, the loaded waste valve reopens against the now static head, which allows the process to begin again.

If an equation can be put into the form f ( x ) = x, and a solution x is an attractive fixed point of the function f, then one may begin with a point x < sub > 1 </ sub > in the basin of attraction of x, and let x < sub > n + 1 </ sub > = f ( x < sub > n </ sub >) for n ≥ 1, and the sequence

If Judge Landis was suspicious of an attorney's line of questioning, he would begin to wrinkle his nose, and once told a witness, " Now let's stop fooling around and tell exactly what did happen, without reciting your life's history.

If Japan were serious, it would begin meaningful and detailed negotiations that would be affirmed at a summit.

If the person was lucid, they often believe that they are no longer dreaming and begin their morning routine.

If one body is motionless to begin with, the equation for conservation of momentum is

If a bull moose is castrated, either by accidental or chemical means, he will quickly shed his current set of antlers and then immediately begin to grow a new set of misshapen and deformed antlers that he will wear the rest of his life without ever shedding again.

If the vaulter fails to begin an attempt within this time, the vaulter is charged with a time foul and the attempt is a miss.

If there are too many low-value, poor quality items, such as old toasters, scratched-up 20 year-old TVs, and worn-out sports gear piled into cardboard boxes, the store may begin to look more like a rummage sale or flea market.

If all the active wrestlers in a match are down inside the ring at the same time, the referee will begin a count ( usually ten seconds, twenty in Japan ).

He privately expressed concern, noting in the margin of his 1844 Essay, " Better begin with this: If species really, after catastrophes, created in showers world over, my theory false.

If you are to inject marijuanas, be advised you will begin to hallucinate and there is a higher chance of overdosing.

If and when the airport eventually goes ahead, the Royal Mail ship will cease operations when flights begin.

Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor Hadrian, when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the customary greeting " If you and your children are well, all is well.

If the death occurs during Yom Tov, shiva does not begin until the burial is completed.

If the non-registering thermometer was removed from the hot liquid, then the temperature indicated on the thermometer would immediately begin changing to reflect the temperature of its new conditions ( in this case, the air temperature ).

If they are approved, they are sworn in and then begin their duties.

If there is dancing, the bride and groom, as the guests of honor, are expected to be the first people to begin dancing.

If, for example, you begin with 100 kilograms ( 220 pounds ) of natural uranium, it takes about 60 SWU to produce 10 kilograms ( 22 pounds ) of uranium enriched in U-235 content to 4. 5 %