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 this be true, the possibility exists that an occlusive lesion of the bronchial arteries might cause widespread degeneration of supportive tissue similar to that seen in generalized emphysema.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

If only the latter were true.

If it's true that contented cows give more milk, why shouldn't happy ball players produce more base hits??

If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

If light moves instantaneously, the telescope does not move, and the true direction of the star relative to the observer can be found by following the line ES.

If is true, and then one may infer that is true.

If is true, then one may infer that is true, and also that is true.

If this is true it would support the notion that God is himself the Redeemer, by associating him with the living Redeemer in the parallel structure.

If this is a true observation, it may be expected that the audience which both demands and consumes this emphasis itself is more receptive to personalized, dramatic accounts of social phenomena.

If one statement is true in a category C then its dual will be true in the dual category C < sup > op </ sup >.

If a 7 comes instead of the point coming, the odds pay at true odds of 1-to-2 if 4 or 10 is the point, 2-to-3 if 5 or 9 is the point, 5-to-6 if 6 or 8 is the point.

If the report is true, this marked Kidd's first foray into piracy.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

If we are told that at least one of two statements is true ; and also told that it is not the former that is true ; we can infer that it has to be the latter that is true.

If either P or Q is true and P is false, then Q is true.

If the filter shows amplitude ripple within the passband, the x dB point refers to the point where the gain is x dB below the nominal passband gain rather than x dB below the maximum gain.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

If the low-order bit is 0, the remaining 7 bits of the DSAP specify an individual address, which refers to a single local service access point ( LSAP ) to which the packet should be delivered.

If the low-order bit is 1, the remaining 7 bits of the DSAP specify a group address, which refers to a group of LSAPs to which the packet should be delivered.

If an RFC becomes an Internet Standard ( STD ), it is assigned an STD number but retains its RFC number ; however, when an Internet Standard is updated, its number stays the same and it simply refers to a different RFC or set of RFCs.

If the server does not use the request URI, the response should be 201 and contain an entity which describes the states of the request and refers to the new resource, and a Location header.

If the statement is true, x refers to the man to my left.

If it chooses the former, the telephone company will face less regulation but will also have to comply with FCC regulations requiring what the Act refers to as " open video systems.

If the NEP refers to the signal power absorbed in the detector, it is known as the electrical NEP.

If instead it refers to the signal power incident on the detector system, it is called the optical NEP.

If, as has been suggested, the reference in the Talmud to " a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err " ( see above ) refers to Halley's Comet, it may be a reference to the 66 CE appearance, because this passage is attributed to the Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananiah.

If the " Down time " ( with space ) refers to the start of " downtime " ( without space ) and " up time " ( with space ) refers to the start of " uptime " ( without space ), the formula will be:

She concluded with a reference to the title of Hyman's book, " If it refers to money, if my memory serves me right, I've been your keeper all these many years.

If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther ( assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I ).

In the Fatboy Slim song, " Weapon of Choice ", the line " If you walk without rhythm / You won't attract the worm ..." refers to the science fiction novel Dune.

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 ).

The quoted sentence is of the form " If A then B " where A refers to the sentence itself and B refers to " Germany borders China ".

Because A refers to the overall sentence, therefore assuming A is true is the same as assuming that the statement " If A then B " is also true.

If a scribe refers to more than one source when creating his copy, then the new copy will not clearly fall into a single branch of the family tree.

If used in this sense, the name " Rotselaar " refers only to Rotselaar-Centre and doesn't include Heikant.

If sleeveless, such a garment may be called a tank top in British English, while " tank top " in US English refers to a sleeveless shirt or undershirt.

If the word " soul " refers to a non-bodily component in a person that can continue in some way after death, then Buddhism does not deny the existence of a soul.