If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

At the end of the tale a sobered Holmes tells Watson, " If it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ' Norbury ' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you ".

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 animal moves to a high-altitude environment, or dives into the water, there will be a pressure difference between the middle ear and the outside environment.

If middle ear pressure remains low, the ear drum may become retracted into the middle ear.

If untreated, a cholesteatoma can eat into the three small bones located in the middle ear ( the malleus, incus and stapes, collectively called ossicles ), which can result in nerve deterioration, deafness, imbalance and vertigo.

If this disorder comes on immediately after the first appearance of the ear, the straw is also affected — but if the grain is nearly or fully formed, injury to the straw is less discernible.

If done improperly, upon release the string may strike the archer's ear or side of the face.

Brian Redhead was quoted, " If you want to drop a word in the ear of the nation, then this is the programme in which to do it.

If they fall from the utricle and become loose in the semicircular canals, they can distort the sense of movement and cause a mismatch between actual head movement and the information sent to the brain by the inner ear, causing a spinning sensation.

If the middle ear, which is normally sterile, becomes contaminated with bacteria, pus and pressure in the middle ear can result, and this is called acute bacterial otitis media.

( If pleasing the ear is the goal of an aural tuning, then pleasing the math is the goal of a machine tuning.

If cattle are driven into, or of their own accord enter, the water, they are commonly not molested ; but if by chance some unusually big or ferocious specimen of these fearsome fishes does bite an animal — taking off part of an ear, or perhaps of a teat from the udder of a cow — the blood brings up every member of the ravenous throng which is anywhere near, and unless the attacked animal can immediately make its escape from the water it is devoured alive.

If different pure tones ( sinusoidal signals with different frequencies ) are presented to each ear, there will be time dependent phase and time differences between both ears ( see figure ).

* If the frequency difference between the ear signals is lower than some hertz, the auditory system can follow the changes in the interaural time differences.

If they cannot, there is conductive hearing loss in that ear.

If there is conductive hearing loss, it is likely to be louder in the affected ear ; if there is sensorineural hearing loss, it will be quieter in the affected ear.

If it is necessary to walk by a confessional, it is considered polite to cover one's ear with one's hand, to show respect for the sanctity of the confessional.

Emory University neuroscience professor Michael Crutcher has expressed concern about BCIs, specifically ear and eye implants: " If only the rich can afford it, it puts everyone else at a disadvantage.

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 buried on hot coals or ashes, the heat can kill pathogens, the dry ash can desiccate, and the earth can block oxygen and further contamination.

If fermentation is allowed to run to completion, the resulting wine will ( in most cases ) be low in sugar and will be considered a dry wine.

If the dough remains sticky, semolina flour is further added and is kneaded until it is dry.

If it lies around the foundations it may cause seepage to the interior, rising damp or dry rot.

If a recipe calls for a level teaspoonful of a dry ingredient ( salt, flour, etc.

If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal ; in all other cases a liquid or liquified medium ( such as ink or wax ) is used, usually in another color than the paper.

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.

If he / she can make it to shore (" dry feet "), he / she is permitted to make a case for political asylum.

If you're walking on snow and it squeaks, chances are the temperature / humidity level won't form a snowball, because squeaking means that the snow is dry.

If August is dry and warm, the infected leaves roll up, the arteries twist, and the dead leaves dry on the tree until defoliage.

If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken .” 38 And it was so.

If potential evapotranspiration is greater than actual precipitation, then soil will dry out, unless irrigation is used.

If, as according to Axel Kock, Fárbauti as " dangerous striker " refers to " lightning ", the figure would appear to be part of an early nature myth alluding to wildfire ( Loki ) being produced by lightning ( Fárbauti ) striking dry tinder such as leaves ( Laufey ) or pine needles ( Nál ).

If left to dry on the plant, kernels may be taken off the pole and cooked in oil where, unlike popcorn, they expand to about double the original kernel size and are often called corn nuts.

If a perched aquifer's flow intersects the Earth's dry surface, at a valley wall for example, the water is discharged as a spring.

If a dry plate is used, first wash the preservative off in running water.

If the pupil of pigeon eye is smaller in size than other pigeon and its eyes are not dry then it shows that pigeon is of good breed.

If Semitic, it may be derived from the Hebrew root ' ṣiyyôn (" castle ") or the Hebrew ṣiyya (" dry land ," Jeremiah 51: 43 ).

If the blood flow is interrupted for a reason other than severe bacterial infection, the result is a case of dry gangrene.

If they dry out they will not germinate.

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If there is more air in the dry suit than is needed to counteract " squeeze " on the undersuit, that excess air creates a " bubble " which moves to the highest point of the suit ; in an upright diver this is the shoulders.

If the diver is positively buoyant and rising, the buoyancy of the dry suit becomes uncontrollable after rising though a certain fraction of depth, and there is then an increased risk of a rapid ascent which grows more rapid, as the distance to the surface decrease.