Example sentences of "if they [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
| 2 | Infants can also be observed to enjoy playing with their faeces , something which adults do if they regress to the anal phase when in a confined cell , in prison or hospital . |
| 3 | An example of this is the trigram model used in the TANGORA speech recogniser ( Jelinek , 1986 ) which assumed that histories are equivalent if they end in the same two words . |
| 4 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 5 | If they went to the common law courts , they would be told that the legal estate in the land was vested in the grantee , and that he was entitled to the benefit himself . |
| 6 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 7 | The Assembly had 386 seats and under the country 's complex electoral system ( approved in October 1989 — see p. 36961 ) , there were 176 single-member constituencies , where results were decided either by overall majority in the first round , or in a second round to which candidates would go forward if they finished in the top three or obtained over 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 8 | Well , you know , if , if they come like the bloody clappers there ! |
| 9 | The curriculum is designed by teachers who unconsciously reflect the view that city life is best , even if they come from the rural areas . |
| 10 | Research enables people to be aware of different ways of conceiving of the familiar world and , if they act on the new conception , to alter or extend their customary ideas and practices . |
| 11 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |
| 12 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 13 | if , if , if they go into the Common Market rate , EE standard or summat it 's bloody new job we 'd have to be , got ta go to Blackpool this year |
| 14 | and they , if they go round the wrong way , oh all right you 're out , now we try again , and |
| 15 | But Guatemalans can enjoy their freedom only if they stick to the unwritten rules . |
| 16 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 17 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 18 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 19 | Therapy teaches clients that feelings can be tolerated and will fade away if they stay in the feared or difficult situation . |
| 20 | If they stay in the lower divisions they 'll have to eliminate seating in seven years time . |
| 21 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 22 | It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics . |
| 23 | with people coming into your house for instruction if they fall over the front door mat |
| 24 | Then one must consider how these can be achieved , or , if they fall outside the practicable range , what departures are least unacceptable . |
| 25 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 26 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 27 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 28 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 29 | Why would we consider men fully paid-up perverts if they showed an unnatural interest in Crimplene blouses , but normal red blooded males if they ignite at the mere mention of silk teddies ? |
| 30 | Fitness fanatics have been warned that they could seriously injure themselves if they join in the latest health craze without proper preparation . |