Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine you were trying to find out if a DIY store would do well in your area . |
| 2 | The guide would be particularly useful to people who lived some distance away and who needed to find out if a visit to the record office would be helpful . |
| 3 | Police are trying to find out if a fire which killed three men at a rest home in Harrogate in North Yorkshire was started deliberately . |
| 4 | Melot had recruited an Arab whom he proposed to send into the town to find out if the garrison had been alerted . |
| 5 | The priests would therefore examine ancient writings to find out if the event had already occurred in the past and what solution had then been applied to it . |
| 6 | The interviewer wants ( a ) to find out if the informant is a full-time housewife and ( b ) if so , how she spends her working day . |
| 7 | Researchers wanted to find out if the presence or absence of these antigens helped the tumours to overcome the body 's immune system . |
| 8 | ‘ It still should n't be that difficult to find out if the place has been tampered with , ’ Charlotte said . |
| 9 | It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won . |
| 10 | Had she been making a genuine decision to refuse the treatment , it would be necessary in a case such as this to find out if the patient had received any advice as to the consequences of a refusal to accept treatment . |
| 11 | Let them commission a research team to examine the phrase in all the languages of the world , to see how it varies , to discover what its sounds denote to those who hear them , to find out if the measure of happiness changes according to the richness of the phrasing . |
| 12 | More to fill in time , and perhaps to find out if the God of his childhood really did exist , after all . |
| 13 | " I have some evidence — it does n't strictly concern the audit , because , as you say , we 're here officially to find out if the group has any money , not precisely how it 's made — to suggest that the ships can " I be making a profit by legitimate trade . |
| 14 | The aim of our study was to find out if the more potent prokinetic drug cisapride could prevent duodenal ulcer relapse . |
| 15 | The aims of this were to find out if the prevalence of bowel symptoms is indeed increased in women after hysterectomy and those treated by cholecystectomy , using a random sample of the population and prospectively recorded data as well as questionnaire responses . |
| 16 | The next is to find out if the deficiency is a result of gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption . |
| 17 | To find out if the concentration of parathyroid hormone-related protein ( PTHrP ) predicts the response of tumour-inducing hypercalcaemia ( TIH ) to pamidronate , we studied 44 patients . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is not an easy task to find out if the invention has been anticipated and is already part of the state of the art , given the massive world-wide volume of published work , and it is possible that a publication which anticipates the invention will not be discovered . |
| 19 | The government 's gathered together knowledgable bodies like the trust into the Ruddy duck Working Group to find out if the two species can be kept apart . |
| 20 | An inquiry is now underway to find out if the rules were strictly adhered to in Mrs Allen 's case . |
| 21 | Once a co-ordinator 's retired or resigned who do you actually communicate with to find out if the group wants to continue playing |
| 22 | He would have to wait until Monday to find out if the offer was still open . |
| 23 | questions to find out if the respondent has thought about the issue at all |
| 24 | He refused , however , to give the isotopic content of the exported material — information that is needed to work out if the plutonium is of weapons grade . |
| 25 | It was difficult to work out if the hotel had a private beach or whether the builders had simply dumped their excess sand and cement next to the water . |
| 26 | I will consider what more needs to be done — because undoubtedly more needs to be done and formidable challenges remain — and whether further progress towards the achievement of those objectives is more likely to come about if the policies of the Government continue to be pursued than if the policies that the hon. Gentleman 's party advocates were introduced in their place . |
| 27 | Scientists will now decide whether to try again if the weather improves or attempt to shepherd the whales out of Scapa Flow using a flotilla of ships . |
| 28 | These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one . |
| 29 | The contents of most systems are not the nice clean water that comes out of the tap , but a disgusting black sludge which will ruin floorcoverings and be very difficult to clean up if a leak occurs . |
| 30 | In this first contribution , he does n't talk about ‘ being fourteen or older ’ or ‘ Edinburgh ’ , but he does talk about ‘ starting work as a bricklayer ’ ( when I was fourteen or older , in Edinburgh ) and , as a co-operative conversationalist , he would have to state explicitly if the information ‘ being fourteen or older , in Edinburgh ’ was not applicable . |