Example sentences of "if people [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |
| 2 | If people come to expect that interest rates will normally be higher than they used to be , then any given interest rate will seem lower relative to the ‘ normal ’ rate than it used to be . |
| 3 | If people cared to read that record , they would know that for two and a half hours the Liberal Democrats proved beyond — |
| 4 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 5 | It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | even if people do read these contracts , or these warranties , or these extended service contracts , they might not know what they 're buying even if it 's read to them , because it 's in a particular kind of jargon . |
| 8 | But if people start sending unhealthy animals , trading will cease . |
| 9 | If people want to exchange any goods , they will do so by barter . |
| 10 | If people want to escape urban gloom I have a good suggestion : throw your TV , video and stereo through the window , lock your car in the garage and buy a bicycle . |
| 11 | If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment , or to receive them , that is their choice . |
| 12 | Erm you know , not just er something that is er created and left there , it 's with that erm the the thing in mind , that if if people want to have some place where they can get together , in the kind of atmosphere that they want . |