If not for Sellers ' hilarious pratfalls, The Pink Panther could be mistaken for a luxuriant caper movie like Topkapi, which is precisely what makes the movie so funny.

If a shoot is damaged ( e. g. eaten by an animal ), the needle fascicles just below the damage will generate a bud which can then replace the lost leaves.

If a sunflower plant in the bud stage is rotated 180 °, the bud will be turning away from the sun for a few days, as resynchronization by the sun takes time.

:: Chubby: If love is like a rose, I will nip my rose in the bud.

If the apical meristem was removed, or has grown a sufficient distance away from an axillary bud, the axillary bud may become activated ( or more appropriately freed from inhibition ).

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 no address is provided, one is picked at random from the " base subnet ", 0.

If he begins to run too soon, the pitcher may throw to a base rather than to home — in this case, the runner is picked off, and will most likely be tagged out.

If they had wanted four, one of them would have been picked out.

After Mick Dumke, a reporter for the Chicago Reader, questioned the effectiveness of the city's handgun ban, Daley picked up a rifle with a bayonet from a table of confiscated weapons and told him, " If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is.

U. S. policy has evolved into the current " wet feet, dry feet " rule: If a Cuban is picked up at sea or walking toward shore, he / she will be repatriated by force.

Stephen J. Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, at a 1986 academic conference of Joyceans in Copenhagen, said “ If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry.

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 handled correctly early in their life, guinea pigs become amenable to being picked up and carried, and seldom bite or scratch.

Hedda Hopper wrote, " If Bette had deliberately set out to wreck her career, she could not have picked a more appropriate vehicle.

* If it is a Hand game ( in which the Skat is not picked up by declarer )

** If the Skat is not picked up, the hand value is 30 ( the base value will increase from 2 to 3 for declaring Hand ).

If the teacher picked a specific day ( say September 16 ), then the chance that at least one student was born on that specific day is, about 7. 9 %.

If I had had five more minutes, I definitely would have picked a better name " John stated.

If these minima match for each subset, then it's almost obvious that a global minimum can be picked not out of the full set of alternatives, but out of only the set that consists of the minima of the smaller, local cost functions we have defined.

If any other shaken can is picked, it explodes in the bartender / soda jerk's face, after which the right can is revealed.

If he picked them up later to addapt to the big screen, they stayed for the rest of his acting career.

If we had missed this restriction, we might have picked θ to go from π to 5π / 6, which would result in the negative of the result.

If picked too soon, the grape can suffer from high acidity.

If Conference USA does not have enough bowl eligible teams the bowl will choose an at-large team, which they did in 2011 when Mountain West Conference member San Diego State was picked to play.

If the Pac-12 or Big Ten champion is picked for the BCS National Championship Game, then the Rose Bowl must choose the highest-ranked school from a non-AQ conference instead of the respective conference's # 2 team if there is a non-AQ school ranked at least # 4 in the final BCS standings.

According to Malone's official NBA biography: " If professional scouts had correctly predicted the impact Karl Malone would have on the NBA, Malone would have been picked much higher than 13th in the 1985 NBA Draft.

: If it's raining now, there will be mushrooms to be picked next week.

If Jackie picked a straight man, they would both split the money, but if she picked a gay man, he would win the entire $ 1 million.