Example sentences of "if they were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purchase could be made if they were licensed by the US Treasury 's Office of Foreign Treasury Control . |
| 2 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 3 | In the case of a preference , it makes payments made within the six months preceding the bankruptcy recoverable if they were made by the debtor under the influence of a desire to better the creditor ( see Re Ledingham-Smith [ 1992 ] Vol 5 Insolvency Intelligence 65 ) . |
| 4 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 5 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 6 | The beliefs about the financial gains from the monarchy were described as being almost fully formulated justifications , as if they were situated towards the explicit end but were not yet fully explicit . |
| 7 | I did wonder if they were searching for the book . |
| 8 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 9 | My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way . |
| 10 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 11 | If they were born in the village they could well be in the erm baptismal book in church . |
| 12 | A patient was considered to have a previous diagnosis of asthma if they were enrolled in the pulmonary clinic with the diagnosis of asthma , were receiving chronic bronchodilator therapy , and had a FEV 1 of not less than 1.5 litres . |
| 13 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 14 | Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself . |
| 15 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 16 | She could visualize them , all three of them , silent around that vast table in the kitchen , as if they were engaged upon the business of any day , any ordinary day , not Christmas . |
| 17 | Or if they were connected to the ‘ Prowler ? ’ |
| 18 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 19 | If they were implicated in the cover-up it seemed inconceivable that the President had been unaware of what was going on . |
| 20 | One must beware especially of solutions that are presented as if they were based on the results of rigorous experimental tests and bear the stamp of proof . |
| 21 | It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all . |
| 22 | If granted , taxation is carried out on the ‘ indemnity basis ’ but it is presumed that the costs ( a ) have been reasonably incurred , if they were incurred with the express or implied approval of the client ; ( b ) have been reasonable in amount , if their amount was expressly or impliedly approved by the client ; ( c ) have been unreasonably incurred , if in the circumstances of the case they are of an unusual nature , unless the solicitor satisfies the taxing officer that prior to their being incurred the client was informed that they might not be allowed on taxation of costs . |
| 23 | Whatever defence strategies are currently used in cases of non-consensual buggery , arguments commonly deployed against female complainants might more frequently be heard against male victims if they were brought within the scope of rape . |
| 24 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 25 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |
| 26 | Before the post of Commissioner was established , it was considered in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that trade union members needed to be ‘ exceptionally determined and sometimes courageous ’ if they were to embark on the process of claiming and enforcing the full rights which the law gave to them . |
| 27 | Cos if they were beating against the wind and and there were three wild reefs about three miles off . |
| 28 | Since the American slump that created a space for Henry VIII and some of Korda 's succeeding films quickly passed , subsequent pictures had to be not just good , but exceptional , if they were to break through the resistance or American audiences to foreign films . |
| 29 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |
| 30 | If they were added to the registered job-seekers , the employment problem would appear to be even worse . |