Example sentences of "[to-vb] if [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implementation of local management of schools , the national curriculum , appraisal and the need for marketing all impose demands upon institutions which will be impossible to meet if existing structures are retained . |
| 2 | As it was difficult to know if one artefact or site was earlier or later than another , there was rarely any way of even estimating the time that had elapsed between the occupation of different sites , or parts of the same site . |
| 3 | The district officer wanted to know if suitable precautions had been taken to avoid the elephants . |
| 4 | I would be fascinated to know if these yards of generally disagreeable reviews will in fact sell copies . |
| 5 | It is also important for the teacher to know if any treatment is being given , such as eye drops , whether exercises have been prescribed and if there is any restriction on physical activities such as diving or lifting heavy weights . |
| 6 | Dad wants to know if those scales have come . |
| 7 | The post had n't come when he left , and he wanted to know if some proofs had arrived . ’ |
| 8 | It is impossible to know if this story is true since the police have no record of the event . |
| 9 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |
| 10 | I just want to know if fat people were fatter then . |
| 11 | ‘ Region 's firms set to suffer if stricken shipbuilder shuts ’ |
| 12 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 13 | It is appropriate to try to discover if such institutions were ever actually the way they had been previously presented by a scholarship interested ( even if it did not declare its interest ) in constructing its own version of the past to answer its own preoccupations . |
| 14 | In this paper the results of this large programme and other reported series are reviewed to discover if colonoscopic surveillance works . |
| 15 | To discover if HGT-1 cells have additional properties found in parietal cells , [ 3 H ] omeprazole and patch clamp recording techniques were used to evaluate specific omeprazole binding sites and K channels in the plasma membrane . |
| 16 | The quest to discover if British POWs are still alive in Siberian camps . |
| 17 | There has been no systematic study , however , to discover if this assumption is correct . |
| 18 | It may be wondered both whether it is actually open to a group of Member States to enter into an agreement on a matter which would appear to fall within Community competence ( at least if Maastricht comes into force ) and how far this is an indicator of things to come if some Member States do not ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 19 | Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy . |
| 20 | Boyd 's 12-man team visited each of the ten pits after being told by Trade President Michael Heseltine to establish if British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 21 | If you have a sensitive nose , you yourself will be able to detect if some washing operation has been carried out , since the chemicals used tend to leave a lingering smell , especially along the inner margins . |
| 22 | Any compiler of a catalogue raisonné will have seen and compared all the works listed , or will scruple to state if some work has proved inaccessible . |
| 23 | Jeans salesman David Fish says the correct number should not be hard to remember if 501 wearers simply turn round and examine the big letters printed on their backsides . |
| 24 | A joint communiqué said that procedural matters had been resolved , opening the way for substantive negotiations , but both parties agreed on the need for other " opposition groups or factions " to participate if lasting peace were to be achieved . |
| 25 | One almost has to wonder if this account has any element of truth to it or if it was some public relations yarn to spur interest in the film . |
| 26 | ‘ You just have to wonder if those members of the disciplinary committee really care about where the game is going at international level . |
| 27 | There are hints of a deeper and more subtly disturbing film , when Hawn 's character pauses to wonder if any woman really knows her husband — but , all too abruptly , it 's on with the show . |
| 28 | The frequency count collected for each gram can be used as a way of deciding which grams to include if rarer items are to be excluded . |
| 29 | But , but , but from the em from the employers point of view , what he stands to lose if that person 's away from work , I mean , all all all the er , chap 's gon na lose is his , his income so , if he was doing it this in his own case , he would be looking to replace . |
| 30 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |