Example sentences of "if they [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 2 | To confuse matters for the historian , the exponents of widely differing interpretations called themselves ‘ Darwinians ’ because they acknowledged Darwin 's lead even if they did not accept all the details of his theory . |
| 3 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 4 | I should be a good deal more impressed with the Government 's determination to deal with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq if they did not have such questionable record on assisting Iraq to obtain a nuclear capability . |
| 5 | If the level of foreign news keeps up it will turn again to its shareholders , says Mathews , adding that in that event : ‘ I would be very surprised indeed if they did n't make more resources available . |
| 6 | If they did n't bring any dinner of their own . |
| 7 | A number of the grants , virtually all of the grants are to voluntary bodies who are providing services which are of considerable benefit to this Committee , and where we would be in some difficulty if they did n't give those of voluntary support to it . |
| 8 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 9 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 10 | So during the First World War and in the Second for severe burn cases they use er used Lavender mm if they did n't have any drugs of any kind . |
| 11 | Fortunately some soldiers felt real responsibility for their officers and often gave gifts in kind if they did n't have any spare cash . |
| 12 | And he said it wa I reckon if they do n't fix this weekend it 's going to be next year , early next year . |
| 13 | The task of education business partnerships is to create , improve , protect and champion good learning environments ; if they do n't do this , they are an expensive waste of time and resources . |
| 14 | And what if they do n't want each other ? |
| 15 | But frankly when people marry it 's often a far better thing if they do n't love each other . |
| 16 | Well what 's happening is it the , during the war , right , we 're constraining the computer to estimate , like a single coefficient that is applicable to both war and peacetime er is n't the case , right , th there is a structural change , right , so when th when we constrain the computer to estimate the coefficients throughout the whole period , right , the coefficients are biased but if they do n't apply either to the post er pre war peacetime sample neither do they er fit very well to the data during the wartime , right , if we allow the intercept to change but we 're getting much better estimates both wartime and peacetime er parameter 's okay because we have n't got rid of , we 've got rid of that bias , right , in constraining the parameters to fit both wartime and peacetime er time periods . |
| 17 | Because if they do n't , if they do n't become any more aware of what 's going on for them , they will take all that unfinished business into a new relationship and statistically , we know that second or third time marriages are more likely to break down than first time marriages . |
| 18 | However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target . |
| 19 | If they do n't get more jobs they should open more jails . |
| 20 | If if they do n't reduce that figure we feel that the oversupply will lead to green field sites being used where they should n't be . |
| 21 | If they do n't have that external authority they tend to flounder . |
| 22 | If they do n't have that opportunity erm then what are we all doing . |
| 23 | These are guys who earn a minimum of thirty one thousand pounds erm if they do n't have any companies sponsoring them , a lot of them have companies sponsoring them . |
| 24 | And if they do n't say that , or if they positively say , You 're not the guy , you 're wasting your time . |
| 25 | But yes they can if they do n't receive enough from other means . |
| 26 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 27 | Can signers from different countries communicate with each other even if they do n't know each others ' sign languages ? |
| 28 | I mean we might have an order three hundred but if they do n't need any it just shows zero so we 're we 're stuck . |
| 29 | There 's no reason why they should n't be funny or gripping even if they do n't use many words . ’ |
| 30 | If they do not do that , Parliament is the place where complaint must be made against them . |