In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

If the giraffe wants to bend down to drink, it either spreads its front legs or bends its knees.

If the excess hoof is not trimmed, the bones will become misaligned, which would place stress on the legs of the animal.

If cornered, it can attack with a kick from its powerful legs.

If they can no longer flee, they stand on their hind legs to make themselves appear larger and use the sharp claws on their front paws to defend themselves.

If two people were in a room and one of them wanted to refer to a characteristic of a chair in the room he would say " this chair has four legs " instead of " a chair has four legs.

If we draw an isosceles triangle on the floor, for which our body forms the base, and our arms form the equal legs of the triangle, then h ( height of the triangle ) is that same centerline.

If the spots are on the hands and legs and have been there more than 3 years, it can take a few months.

If a bowler, usually a leg spin bowler, decides to attack the batsman's legs in an attempt to force a stumping, bowl him behind his legs, or induce a catch on the leg side, the field may stack 4-5 towards the leg side.

If caught out in the open, agamas are able to run quickly on their hind legs to reach shelter.

" If I do that, I must be paid with the lives of the people of the earth, all the human beings, the animals which have four legs, the birds and insects of the air, the fishes and all the people under the water.

If the penetrator crosses their legs instead, it is called the lotus position.

If you are to perform this technique, you must first strike quickly with the three combined forces of your legs, your hands, and your body.

If a hurdler four-steps, they will have to switch lead legs at each hurdle.

If set on steel legs it is called a Contractor's Saw.

If the pedipalps are ' short range ' sensory organs, the second pair of legs are the corresponding ' long range ' ones.

If prey manages to escape the diving birds at first, they may give chase using their legs and wings for underwater swimming.

Half-way up I rather proudly looked at my legs, slowly pushing the pedals around, and the thought came " If I went on doing this for long enough I could get to India.

If the theory is renormalizable ( see below for more on this ), as it is in QED, the divergent parts of loop diagrams can all be decomposed into pieces with three or fewer legs, with an algebraic form that can be canceled out by the second term ( or by the similar counterterms that come from and ).

If the diver is over-weighted, the suit may contain additional air to offset the extra weight ; migration of this air, particularly to the legs when the diver is not upright, can cause the diver to " invert " to a legs-up position that makes venting the drysuit difficult ( see more on this problem, in the following section below ).

If a passenger fails to unload, their legs will contact a lightweight bar, line, or pass through a light beam which stops the lift.

# If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted, 10 seconds to be allowed him to do so, the other man meanwhile to return to his corner, and when the fallen man is on his legs the round is to be resumed and continued until the three minutes have expired.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

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 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 to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.

If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.

If Daddy's books are out of bounds his own picture books are not.

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 they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.