If the partnership's preceding call is a natural bid in notrump, then 4NT is also natural.

* If the notrump bidder bids a major suit in which the responder does not have at least four cards, the responder may bid 2NT ( invitational ) with 8-9 HCP or 3NT ( game ) with 10 or more HCP.

* If the notrump bidder bids 2, denying a 4-card major, responder may bid his 5 card major with a call of 2 of his major with 8-9 HCP, or with a call of 3 of his major with 10 HCP.

* If the notrump bidder names a major suit and the responder has four cards in that suit, the responder bids four of the notrump bidder's suit ( game ).

* If the notrump bidder names a major suit in which the responder does not have at least four cards or bids diamonds to deny a major suit, the responder bids 3NT ( game ).

If the notrump bidder has four cards in each major suit, the notrump bidder corrects to the previously unbid major suit.

If the notrump opener responds to the 2 ( 3 ) response with 2 ( 3 ) to deny a four-card major, the responder bids three of the four-card major.

If South declares this hand at notrump and the opening lead is a club, he will probably take just nine tricks with the top cards in his hand.

If the 2 notrump bidder bids again freely, then it shows a strong two suiter.

If opener has maximum values, a fit, and strong support, he may raise to level 3, but under no circumstances may he take any other action.

If playing with more than four players and more than one deck of cards, another opener will be decided by the players.

If this last approach is used, opener must be careful about jumping in own suit without extra length.

If opener has such a good hand that a slam seems possible even following a single raise by partner, then more information about responder's hand can be obtained by using a game try bid.

If responder rejects the game try, opener can sign off in game.

If responder accepts the game try, then opener can further investigate the slam.

If opener holds exactly four spades, five hearts, two diamonds and two clubs ( and thus originally opened 1 heart ), she bids 2 clubs ( a two-card suit !).

If the 49ers host the Kickoff Game ( on a Thursday night ), the Raiders can possibly host a Week 1 season opener on Fox, unless the schedule of the Raiders ' Major League Baseball counterparts, the Oakland Athletics, creates a conflict ( the Raiders and Athletics share O. co Coliseum ).

The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

If several alkaloids are extracted from one plant then their names often contain suffixes " idine ", " anine ", " aline ", " inine ", etc.

If one has to name a famous wizard, the names would typically be Merlin, Gandalf or Harry Potter.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

If we understand the names, we should understand the information they carry, namely the identity of their bearers, and if we grasp their identity, we should understand automatically whether the statement is true or false.

If the WBS element names are ambiguous, a WBS dictionary can help clarify the distinctions between WBS elements.

If he chose to, he could turn his original nomen into an additional cognomen that followed his newly gained names.

If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor .” Ms. Rogers “ claims to have 4, 000 names in her rolodex .”

" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

If sovereigns since Tang were referenced using posthumous names, they were the last ones of their sovereignties or their reigns were short and unpopular.

# Overrides rules 1 to 3: If there is a more common convention than using posthumous, temple or era names, then use it.

If you prefer better clarification and do not want to bother with all those " names ," please refer to each dynasty, of which the specific convention is shown on top of its sovereigns.

If these patterns can be named, the names can be attached to the associated nodes in the trained net.

If the name Ruthenia has any connection to the name Rus, a theory generally held in the West connects it the Varangians whom the early Slavic and Finnic tribes called Rus, taking this name from the Old Norse root roðs-or roths-referring to the domain of " rowing " and still existing in the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden, Ruotsi and Rootsi.

If the show parodied a topic, it would use names derivative of " Rutland ".

If the names of the academic papers are reversed, they describe real mathematical events.

If five marbles are assigned names and are placed " up for election ," and it three of them are green, one is red, and one is blue, then a green marble will rarely win the election.

If true, Leota Township ( and the town of Leota ) are the only place names in all of Nobles County that memorialize specific Native Americans. The town of Leota is situated on sections 5 and 8 of the township.

If true, Leota Township ( and the village of Leota ) are the only place names in all of Nobles County that memorialize specific Native Americans.

If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.

If there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

If companies will take the time to give objective consideration to their major problems and to the questions they provoke, then a long constructive step will have been taken toward more effective marketing in next decade.

If A is the major axis of an ellipsoid and B and C are the other two axes, the radius of curvature in the ab plane at the end of the axis Af, and the difference in pressure along the A and B axes is Af.

If it is assumed that the formula given by Lodge of cosec Af applies, the pressure difference along the major axes can be calculated from the angle of inclination of the major axis, and from this the interfacial tension can be calculated.

If this analysis is correct, the suburban branches will turn out to be what management's cost accountants refuse to acknowledge, marginal operations rather than major factors.

If instead we use polar coordinates with the origin at one focus, with the angular coordinate still measured from the major axis, the ellipse's equation is

If the facts are related, this would be a unique case of a tradition that endured for more than a thousand years and that actually pre-dates most of the major splits in the Germanic language family.

Clark L. Hull, probably the first major empirical researcher in the field, wrote If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised ...

In his book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question ?, Lederman writes that, although he was a chemistry major, he became fascinated with physics, because of the clarity of the logic and the unambiguous results from experimentation.

If a clot is large enough to block one or both femoral arteries, there may be hind leg paralysis because the major source of blood flow to the hind leg is blocked.

If a wrestler has secured a rope break from a submission hold, and the offending wrestler does not break the hold on the count of five, causing the offending wrestler to lose automatically, it is still considered a disqualification ( which is kept distinct from countouts in most major promotions ), even though the automatic loss was procured through counting.

If there are no more major similarities that crop up in the next few weeks or months, with luck we can continue that way.

If so, prior to the end of the Cold War, socialist law would be ranked among the major legal systems of the world.

If the circle is replaced by an ellipse, and rotated about the major axis, the shape becomes a prolate spheroid, rotated about the minor axis, an oblate spheroid.