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 the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

If, for example, a string sounds the note C when plucked, a string twice as long will sound the same note an octave lower.

If the player concentrates on hearing the ma between each hit, in addition to the hits themselves, he or she will create a much more effective and satisfying sound.

If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole ".

If the sound of the word is emphasized during the encoding process, the cue that should be used should also put emphasis on the phonetic quality of the word.

If some specific deductive system of first-order logic is sound and complete, then is it " perfect " ( a formula is provable iff it is a semantic consequence of the axioms ), thus equivalent to any other deductive system with the same quality ( any proof in one system can be converted into the other ).

If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs learned to associate the sound of the bell with food.

In the 1990s after a Motörhead show at Hultsfred, Sweden a radio reporter asked Lemmy " If you were to play here again in ten years, how do you think you would sound?

If the consonant is voiced, the voicing is the only sound made during occlusion ; if it is voiceless, a stop is completely silent.

If I can ’ t get that sound I can ’ t play anything.

If a trill is made with the tip of the tongue against the upper gum, it is called an apical ( tongue-tip ) alveolar trill ; the IPA symbol for this sound is.

If fricative, the sound is often impressionistically described as harsh or grating.

If T is a theory whose objects of discourse can be interpreted as natural numbers, we say T is arithmetically sound if all theorems of T are actually true about the standard mathematical integers.

If it is smoked too quickly, it can produce excess moisture causing a gurgling sound in the pipe and an uncomfortable sensation on the tongue ( referred to as " pipe tongue ", or more commonly, " tongue bite ").

If a person ‘ synthesizes ’ a ‘ jet plane landing ’ sound, this is achieved mostly by altering the shape of the mouth to filter the white noise into pink noise by removing the higher frequencies.

If properly done, though, abstract interpretation is sound ( every property true of the abstract system can be mapped to a true property of the original system ).

If the BFO frequency is off, the output signal will be frequency-shifted ( up or down ), making speech sound strange and " Donald Duck "- like, or unintelligible.

If a previous sound change causes X, Y > Y ( features X and Y merge as Y ), a new one cannot affect only original X's.

Sound change is exceptionless: If a sound change can happen at a place, it will.

If the change of a sequence of fricatives such that one becomes a stop is dissimilation, then such changes as Proto-Germanic * χs to ( spelled x ) in English would count as a regular sound law: PGmc.

If a sound absorbing sheet is slid in between the prongs of a vibrating fork, reducing the waves reaching the ear from one prong, the volume heard will actually increase, due to a reduction of this cancellation.

If the gesture is abductory and is part of a speech sound, the sound will be called voiceless.

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.