Example sentences of "if [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the 1911 Coal Mines Act , pithead baths had to be provided if two-thirds of the miners voted for them . |
| 2 | The alternative , if three of the commoners continued to hold out , would be for them all to claim compensation for lost rights from the Lands Tribunal . |
| 3 | Afterwards , the president of the Dundee Sunday boys ' league , Dave Pullar , said that he doubted if three-quarters of the teams in the leagues could carry on . |
| 4 | Nor is it any good hoping you 'll raise all the money at the conference itself if three-quarters of the bills have to be paid beforehand . |
| 5 | The 52-year-old former Yorkshire and England opener wanted to join in , but the only way he will be involved is if one of the players requests him . |
| 6 | What happens if one of the players gets injured , or transferred ? ? |
| 7 | We 've had a report from Headway which we agreed to take up to see if one of the consultants can oversee head injury services |
| 8 | If one of the managers sees me there , how can I explain what I 'm doing ? ’ |
| 9 | It would have been helpful if one of the parents had supported my suggestions that the joke was over and it was time to move on . |
| 10 | However , the reaction may be inefficient if one of the primers is depleted because of excessive spurious priming . |
| 11 | We saw in Chapter 8 that Garrett 's model of sentence production does contain these two components ; and the examples of spontaneous speech by aphasic patients we gave in sections 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 illustrate the two patterns which occur if one of the components is damaged and the other spared . |
| 12 | He points to savings on rates — which can obviously be substantial in London — if one of the premises is kept empty , and other immediate gains from the cutting of staff in areas of duplication such as administration , accounts , quality control and training . |
| 13 | Its terms , secret at the time , have seemed odd : if one of the signatories were to be attacked by Russia , the other was to come to her support . |
| 14 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 15 | The cells did not respond if one of the gratings moved in the preferred direction . |
| 16 | It makes me wonder if one of the things we 're |
| 17 | for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs |
| 18 | What would be the response of the planning authority if one of the owners decided to remove the cobbles or tarmac over them ? |
| 19 | Currently if one of the processors fails , the machine collapses in a heap , but Haines says that work is in progress to let the others take over , more neatly . |
| 20 | If this is correct , any patient in hospital who is given a blood transfusion could be at risk if one of the donors of the blood carries the virus . |
| 21 | And I wonder if one of the clerks could just put it before us please . |
| 22 | This would have the effect of segregating and splitting the market and would be likely to attract the attention of the Commission , particularly if one of the licensees objects ( perhaps the one having the least advantageous terms in its licence agreement ) . |
| 23 | If one of the syllables in our ‘ nonsense word ’ is made longer than the others , there is quite a strong tendency for that syllable to be heard as stressed . |
| 24 | Even if one of the ovoids was in the Simonova 's docking bay — a recovery sequence had been initiated shortly before Rostov had retired to his quarters — those which were adjacent in orbit would open fire as soon as the pod was more than ten kilometres from the survey vessel 's shield zone . |
| 25 | When you were searching the kitchen area for the assailant , did you notice if one of the windows was n't properly closed ? ’ |
| 26 | Be alright if one of the birds turn up here and you say oh hello Florence , oh no I 'm not Florence I 'm Zebedee . |
| 27 | Deputy editor Matthew Symonds said the only way the move could be economic was if one of The Times 's rivals was forced out of business . |
| 28 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 29 | Furthermore , if one of the females becomes too dominant they can pool their male resources to put her in her place . |
| 30 | If one of the wardens should die during his term of office , and this has happened twice during the last twenty years , another of the names will be drawn out . |