4. Give Russian equivalents of the sentences:

1. If they needed the equipment urgently, we could transport it by plane.

2. The accident would not have happened, if they had been more careful.

3. If I were in his place, I would refuse to stop the experiment.

4. If the goods are shipped in April, they will arrive before the expedition starts.

5. The sputnik will keep to its orbit provided it travels at the uniform speed of 8 kilometres per second.

6. It would have been impossible to send up sputniks unless the laws governing the motion of planets had been studied.

7. If the Earth were stationary, the movement of the atmosphere would be controlled almost entirely by temperature differences.

8. If it were not for the earth's gravitation, the satellites would move through airless space in a straight line and at a uniform speed.

9. The problem of environment is not to be treated as if it were of local concern for this or that country.

10. Even if such an apparatus should be developed, this would not solve the problem of travelling beyond the solar system.

К теме № 15: Перевод эмфатических конструкций

1. Translate the sentences with Emphatic Constructions into Russian:

1. The problem does exist, whatever you think about it.

2. Not only does the government support the needy population, but it also subsidizers all the agricultural sector.

3. Related to the market reforms are the issues of privatizations and entrepreneurship.

4. Nor should there be distortions in social policies of the local governments.

5. Included in the report are the latest figures submitted by the statistic board.

6. Whoever the author of this project may have been he should have coordinated his actions with the executive bodies.

7. This option is not improbable in the present situation.

8. It was not until mid-90ies that some progress was observed.

9. It is these factors that drew our special attention.

10. No sooner the committee started operating than the first positive results could be seen.

11. It was L. Balcerowicz who introduced a ‘shock therapy” economic policy in Poland in the early 90-ies.

12. As early as in 1953 the first tractor “Belarus” was assembled in Minsk.

13. Strange as it may seem, they were reluctant to learn from native speakers of English.

14. The economic growth reached as much as 5 percent last year against 1.1 percent two years ago.

15. Never was there a greater surplus of the U.S. budget than in 1999.

16. No two international problems are alike.

17. No food at all is better than unwholesome food.

18. The article is by a not unknown military correspondent.

19. No matter where you go, you can't escape from youгself.

20. Whatever I say, I seem to say the wrong thing.

21. Few mistakes, if any, might be said to have arisen from the ap­plication of this theory.

22. When a hearing is finished, the committee decides what re­port, if any, it will make to the House on the measure.

23. He spoke firmly though pleasantly.

24. He drove quickly yet safely.

25. Whatever on earth caused the accident, nobody knows.