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If and doubtful
If he was sober, which was doubtful, he'd have him get in touch with Mr. Crombie.
If the umpire is doubtful of the legality of a service they may first interrupt play and give a warning to the server.
If it is doubtful whether a person has received one of the three sacraments in question, the sacrament may be administered conditionally, but not, properly speaking, repeated.
William Searle Holdsworth, one of Blackstone's successors as Vinerian Professor, argued that " If the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that United States, and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the common law.
If so, it has remained far more secret and " esoteric " than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful ..." The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: " I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop ".
If she advised over the designs for Waddesdon, it is doubtful he heeded them.
If the state claims just as much money from workers through taxes and levies as it pays out to them, then it is of course doubtful whether the state really " pays a social wage ".
If Remiornis is indeed correctly identified as a ratite ( which is quite doubtful however ), Gastornis remains as the only known animal that could have laid these eggs.
If a minor reaction is considered doubtful the OT test is less accurate and may fail to detect TB, producing a false negative.
If all doubtful indications are instead classified as positive, there is no significant difference between the OT test, the PPD tine test, or the Mantoux test.
Whilst Worthington-Evans was Secretary of State for War he famously said " If the Arab population realised that the peaceful control of Mesopotamia ( Iraq ) ultimately depends on our intention of bombing women and children, I ’ m very doubtful if we shall gain that acquiescence of the fathers and husbands of Mesopotamia to which the Secretary of State for the Colonies ( Winston Churchill ) looks forward.
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If and about
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.
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 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 I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.
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 one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.
If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.
If and when Hino decided to tell him about his experiences, he would do so unasked.
If such is the case, the particles within a distance of about Af of the Earth will have, relative to the Earth, a kinetic energy less than their potential energy and they will be captured into orbits about the Earth.
If the vertex is at Af, and if the interior of C is on the left as one moves in the direction of increasing t, then every such corner can be found from the curve obtained by rotating C clockwise through 90-degrees about the vertex.
If there is nothing evil in these things, if they get their moral complexion only from our feeling about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a cheer??
If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.
If the latter knows nothing about the absent sitter except his name ( given by the experimenter ), he cannot possibly give any clues, conscious or unconscious, far less ask leading questions.
If they were, Walter Lippmann would be writing the same columns as George Sokolsky, and Herb Lock would have nothing to draw cartoons about.
If Palfrey ever had any doubts about the wickedness of slavery, they were put aside after he received an inventory of the slave property he had inherited.
If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.
`` If I thought you were serious about going back to school, that you'd learned something from your experiences here and at Hanover -- well, I might consider such an offer.
If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.
If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.
If they can't chalk up big business here then let's stop this noise about how hip we are, and stick to our community singing,

If and steak
If a person picks up a package of steaks intending to steal them then changes her or his mind and puts the steak back in the meat counter, the crime of larceny has been committed but the state will have a difficult time proving it.
If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself — either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak.
If the details are to be believed, she had brought him a steak sandwich one day as a present to the radio station where he worked.

If and boldly
He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The following Sunday heard " If you are being reduced, go down boldly into poverty ".
If either sheet is then rotated 90 degrees about its axis, so that their planes of polarization are at right angles to each other, the image becomes boldly visible.

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