If the earlier England of Anglo-Saxons and Norse was tied to indigenous traditions, the England emerging from the Conquest owed a debt to the Romance languages and the culture of ancient Rome, that was not so important before the Conquest, but was maintained at a high level by the English catholic church and the clerks of England.

If postal fees were to remain ( as they were in many lands ) a patchwork of many different jurisdictional rates, the use of stamps would produce only limited gains in efficiency, for postal clerks would still have to spend time calculating the rates on many letters: only then would senders know how much postage to put on them.

If the bank clerks ( to follow the illustration above ) are serving two customers, but their accounts are contained in one ledger, then the entire ledger, or one or more database tables, would need to be made available for editing to the clerks in order for each to complete a transaction, one at a time ( file locking ).

If any of us miss, they can pick up the pieces.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??

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 Mrs. Wright doesn't accept the terms in the morning, I'll go either to Tokyo or to Holland, to do what I can.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

If there be a disinterested patriot in America, 'tis General Washington, and his bravery, none can question ''.

`` If you can firmly make the good knight sure to pleasure our Corporation '', Sturley wrote, `` besides that ordinary allowance for your diet you shall have 20 for recompence ''.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

If the manner of his passing moves the nations to act in the spirit of his dedication the sore issues that plague the world can yet be resolved with reason and justice.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If we cluster together, the redcoats can make an advantage out of it, but there's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us, and we can outrun them ''.

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 the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

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

Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.

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 you have a house which heat doesn't penetrate easily, your unit will have less heat to remove.

If the force required to remove the coatings is plotted against film thickness, a graph as illustrated schematically in Fig. 5 may characteristically result.

If the node is a leaf or has only one child, remove it.

If mistakes have been made, it may also be necessary to remove the whole intonaco for that area — or to change them later à secco.

If the physical material that will be used in production is derived from bones, dilute acid solutions are used to remove calcium and similar salts.

If the myasthenia is serious ( myasthenic crisis ), plasmapheresis can be used to remove the putative antibodies from the circulation.

If no signs of pain can be elicited, surgery should be performed within 24 hours of the incident, to remove the disc material and relieve pressure on the spinal cord.

Many authors have cited proverbs as epigrams at the beginning of their articles, e. g. "' If you want to dismantle a hedge, remove one thorn at a time ' Somali proverb " in an article on peacemaking in Somalia.

If the administrators decide to no longer distribute a file, they simply have to remove it from their servers, and it will no longer be available to users.

* If leather on the side of a shoe is scored by several parallel cuts, it was caused by someone who scraped around the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud.

* If a London doctor's shoes are scraped to remove crusted mud, the person who so scraped them is the doctor's servant girl.

* If someone cuts a shoe while scraping it to remove encrusted mud, that person is clumsy and careless.

# If the damage cannot be repaired, the cell should initiate apoptosis ( programmed cell death ) to remove the threat it poses for the greater good of the organism.

If the parent process still refuses to reap the zombie, the next step would be to remove the parent process.

If a player is able to form a straight row of three pieces along one of the board's lines ( i. e. not diagonally ), he has a " mill " and may remove one of his opponent's pieces from the board ; removed pieces may not be placed again.

He visited the tomb of Frederick the Great and instructed his marshals to remove their hats there, saying, " If he were alive we wouldn't be here today ".

If God can do absolutely anything, then God can remove His own omnipotence.

If God can remove His own omnipotence, then God can create an enormous stone, remove His own omnipotence, then not be able to lift the stone.

If a meadow be well manured, we remove, with the increased crop of grass, a greater quantity of potash than can, by a repetition of the same manure, be restored to it.

If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check, and the player must remove the threat of capture on the next move.

If either power would remove her restrictions on American commerce, the United States would reapply non-intercourse against the power that had not so acted.

If removal is desired or warranted, a dermatologist or similarly trained professional may use cauterization, cryosurgery, excision, or surgical ligation to remove the acrochorda.

If a plaintiff files suit in state court in such a case, the defendant can remove the case to federal court if a timely request is made to do so.