Example sentences of "if they [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justification is that it is undesirable for domestic firms to compete against each other in overseas markets : national welfare is enhanced if they maximize their joint rents . |
| 2 | If they survive their first outing on a ‘ real course ’ and still have the golf bug , they can progress to the 2,294-yard Shey Copse course , a nine-hole mixture of par-3s and medium length par-4s . |
| 3 | Try to find from the salvage dealer the police station from which he collected the vehicle and enquire if they know its original number from their files . |
| 4 | And I 'd swear to that on a stack of any books you consider sufficiently sacred , even if they burn my hypothetical fingers . ’ |
| 5 | But if they follow their usual form they will do nothing , because they are prepared to accept medieval barbarity rather than strain trade relations . ’ |
| 6 | Middlesbrough are already well placed to win the Northern League division one championship for the second successive year and promotion to the premier league will be assured if they win their remaining games . |
| 7 | Manchester United are determined that if they win their first championship for 25 years the celebrations will be in front of their own supporters . |
| 8 | He also wants to push farmers to take land out of production and to pay them grants if they tend their non-productive land in an environmentally-friendly way or use less chemical fertilisers and pesticides on their crops . |
| 9 | Yet , when she found him , more or less alone in the bar parlour although she was aware of Ned O'Mara somewhere nearby , she could n't stop talking , words rushing out of her , spilling one over the other , over and over " Please , please , oh please , you can help me if you want to , I know you can , and I 'll go mad you see if they take my little boy away , because he 's not-not just as he should be — more delicate than he should be . |
| 10 | But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations . |
| 11 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 12 | However strong the objective evidence that I do want X or Y , I can take these wants into account only if they pass my private test , if subjectively I do feel them . |
| 13 | also i think players like Palmer , Pallister and Adams will see some big trouble with slick hollenders tomorrow — if they prove me wrong i will be happy : i hope for an english victory — but most of all a norw. point against Poland . |
| 14 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 15 | For example , in at least one rural area , we have heard of a tendency for professional people to send their children to the nearby town or another village school if they feel their own village school is unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 16 | If they give you one length and an angle then you 'd use either sine or cos or tan to find the other one . |
| 17 | Come back in a week for a check-up and to have the majority of the sutures out , or earlier if they give you any trouble or get infected . |
| 18 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 20 | And if they guess my true feelings — |
| 21 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 22 | If they have their own pet rabbit , make the bunny in an appropriate colour . |
| 23 | Newspapers are closed and journalists are sent to jail if they displease our foreign masters . " |