Example sentences of "that if [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Yakuts split a dog in half and walked between the pieces with a lump of earth in their mouths , saying that if they did not observe the vow they would be split in two and buried in the earth . |
| 2 | At least they did so until the local priest warned them that if they did not stop , he 'd say a prayer that would make the dead rise from their graves and walk the length and breadth of the islands . |
| 3 | The speaker paused in his speech and warned that if they did not stop they would be removed . |
| 4 | He remarked that if they did not exist he and many others in his position would have to invent them ! |
| 5 | And stated that if they did not do so , we would an injunction to stop the proposals going through . |
| 6 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |
| 7 | For generations prior to this calamity the custodians and promoters of Yahweh — that is , the now canonized Prophets of Israel — had been warning the people that if they did not abandon their syncretistic ways , the wrath of the one true God would descend upon them . |
| 8 | It said that the Government had no policy for industry and no policy for the country , and that if they did not take a new direction there would be no British-owned manufacturing industry left in this country — now answer ! |
| 9 | Hurd went some way to placate this view by assuring MPs that if they did not wish to incorporate the treaty into British law , by voting down the whole bill , then the treaty would not be ratified . |
| 10 | Some older workers feared that if they did not accept ‘ voluntary ’ redundancy they would not receive any redundancy pay . |
| 11 | I even tell them that if they do not feel 100 per cent , they should not come to work . ’ |
| 12 | It is not enough for researchers to assume that if they do not make conscious decisions , try to be scrupulously fair when selecting their samples , that randomness will be assured . |
| 13 | I , David on your guard force and the thirty four members yes , you , you rightly mentioned the correspondence with your at this moment in time I have had no reply I have sent another letter which you have not received as yet to , indicating that if they do not return those members then we will proceed to Bridlington . |
| 14 | Is it not time that the Government stood up and were counted by telling the Turkish Government to remove their troops from occupied Cyprus and saying that if they do not do so the British Government will veto any attempt by Turkey to join the EC ? |
| 15 | ‘ We feel that if we did not pursue this second transplant it would be like , to put it bluntly , pulling the plug on her . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not exaggerating when I say that if we do not meet this challenge now , we shall be in serious trouble within less than a year . |
| 17 | He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net . |
| 18 | In the longer term , however , we know that the UFC intends to force down unit costs as part of the expansion process and that if we do not expand we will have funding removed to bring us down to the unit of resource of those who have . |
| 19 | you can see that if we do not increase the membership to a bigger proportion of the Sports Council Grant , we are in trouble . |
| 20 | I feel that if you do not continue to love then you will die in some way . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel that if you do not continue to love you will die in some way . ’ |
| 22 | Note however , that if you do not run VALIDATE frequently ( and are not using Offline ) , infrequently accessed files may not be checked before the tape with the last good copy has been re-used . |
| 23 | Steve Jones believes that if you do not believe the way he believes , then you will go to hell . |
| 24 | Marx seems to be answering unnamed conservative critics who would argue that if you do not have private property and the politico-legal framework to ensure its enjoyment you will have chaos ; people would lose all incentive to produce , there would be no law except the law of the strongest , the economy could not be organized , there would be no individual security , murder and theft would be the order of the day . |
| 25 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 26 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 27 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 28 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 29 | I was certain , although I could not have said why , that if I did not answer correctly this might well be the end . |
| 30 | He went on to say that if I did not return I would be making myself voluntarily homeless and would never be re-housed . |