Example sentences of "if they [be] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are involved at all . |
| 2 | The fact that a practitioner has a copy of the Blue Book ( which contains the Institute 's regulations and guidance notes on investment business ) on his shelf does not necessarily mean that he has read and understood it , and in some firms the Institute 's Investment Business Gazettes ( which announce changes to regulations and other requirements , and provide a general round-up of developments likely to affect authorised firms ) are filed away unread if they are kept at all . |
| 3 | At present it is left to the planning officers of the district council to decide how the views of parish councils are pesented to the planning committee or indeed if they are presented at all . |
| 4 | If they are wanted at all they are probably wanted in large numbers and to be made in a hurry by unskilled labour . |
| 5 | In most cases , such changes are poorly documented , if they are recorded at all . |
| 6 | PCBs can create dioxins — polychlorinated organic chemicals — if they are burned at low temperatures . |
| 7 | Electronic resources need to benefit from well-planned preservation campaigns , if they are to survive at all . |
| 8 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 9 | So they stood and their hands clasped at the baggage rack above their heads , and Millet saw the eyes of a fellow traveller flit to the girl 's features as if they were staring at those magazines on the high shelf behind the newsagent 's counter . |
| 10 | sole practitioners would not object to the proposed extra accounting measures if they were aimed at all firms ; |
| 11 | And they 've got , I think the odds are that people are giving more perhaps er and that er , if they were paid at fifty four P per mile and and got how that would affect the churches er contributions they make ? |
| 12 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |