Example sentences of "if they [verb] n't [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If they did n't bring any dinner of their own .
3 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 .
4 I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing .
5 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 .
6 as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours .
7 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 .
8 Fortunately some soldiers felt real responsibility for their officers and often gave gifts in kind if they did n't have any spare cash .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 If they do n't wriggle free of blame , they do n't in any case care .
12 And what if they do n't want each other ?
13 Some visitors have been surprised but none have criticised even if they do n't think kinetic sculptures are real art . ’
14 But frankly when people marry it 's often a far better thing if they do n't love each other .
15 You know the problem with putters , if they do n't feel right as soon as you pick 'em up and swing them , you might as well forget it .
16 If , if they do n't go first thing in the morning I 've seen people write down absence all day or all morning .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 COMPANIES on Teesside and Tyneside are in danger of missing out on cash grants if they do n't get involved in the Government 's City Challenge Initiative , according to one of the region 's planning experts .
20 However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target .
21 If they do n't get more jobs they should open more jails .
22 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 .
23 If they do n't have that external authority they tend to flounder .
24 If they do n't have that opportunity erm then what are we all doing .
25 So if they do n't have sufficient dwellings to meet the requirements , two things and I would expect them both two things , would happen .
26 And it , they 're likely to need something like a further twenty thousand pounds er , if they do n't have sufficient funds to continue to at the balance of this financial year .
27 For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue .
28 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 .
29 However , young people and adults who have the necessary intellectual competence , motivation and maturity to benefit from higher education ( even if they do n't have three top grade ‘ A ’ Levels to prove it ) are being allowed to do so .
30 Even if they do n't like American politics they like the style .
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