In his stirring order " To the Men of the Mail Guard ", Denby impressed upon his former service the importance of the high duty entrusted to them: " If two Marines are covered by a robber, neither must put up his hands, but both must immediately go for their guns.

If this was found and opened a robber would find himself confronted by an empty passage at a right angle to the passage below, closed by wooden doors, or by a passage parallel to the passage below, carefully filled with mud and stone blocking.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If the ball is dead on the pitch run on, such as from a foul ball ( except caught fly-out ), the steal is not allowed and the runner returns to his time-of-pitch base.

If a forward pass is caught near a sideline or endline it is a complete pass ( or an interception ) only if a receiver catches the ball in bounds.

If caught with a gun anywhere else severe penalties are in force, including arrest.

If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.

If caught early enough in an infestation, the cases from the previous year can be picked off by hand before the end of May.

If practising live release, it is recommended to call the fish " caught " when it is alongside a boat.

If caught out in the open, agamas are able to run quickly on their hind legs to reach shelter.

" Even seeing of the first page of the second act is enough to draw the reader in: " If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it [...]" (" The Repairer of Reputations ").

If he is caught clean shaven without his badge he may be arrested by the Posse, a group of men dressed in western garb, sporting pistols and rifles filled with blanks and, of course, facial hair.

If someone's license plate is caught by a traffic camera for speeding and they receive a speeding ticket in the mail a week later, this consequence will not be very effective against speeding.

If the killers were caught, the mob would hire the best lawyers for their defense.

* High siding – If a raft is caught in a hydraulic it will often quickly go sideways.

If caught, " wipers " are generally called out of the game, and in recreational paintball may be ejected from the field for multiple instances of wiping.

If the Bill passes, this is also likely to be felt by small-time distributors who are not linked to the ring of organized crime, and who usually face no more than a fine if caught.

If the player is caught by the IRS agent, he is audited, and always loses the audit, which takes 50 % of his income.

His performance in If .... caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who cast McDowell as the lead in A Clockwork Orange, adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess.

If the Soviet Union launched a sneak attack and the US did not respond immediately, the majority of their missiles and strategic bombers might be caught on the ground.

If a player catches a ball thrown by the opposing team on the full, then the player who threw the ball is eliminated, and the team that caught the ball can reinstate the player that has been out the longest ( or the player ( s ) whom the thrower eliminated ).

If a dodgeball hits an opposing player but gets caught by one of the hit player's teammates, the thrower is out, a player gets reinstated, and the player who got hit stays in.

If that ball however is caught on the full, the opposition can reinstate the player that has been out the longest from their team.

If I had not heard long ago from other people that you were a fool, I might now have known it of myself, since you thought I was sitting in an empty jug, and went to cover it up with your hand, as if you had me caught.

* If I am careful and smart, I will not get caught.

If caught early, the process can sometimes be reversed by vascular surgery.

If property was stolen, for instance, " the king should have any thieves caught in connection with its disappearance executed by an elephant.