Example sentences of "if [noun pl] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study says contact with communities and information gathering would improve if authorities developed a comprehensive system for ‘ ethnic record-keeping and monitoring ’ . |
| 2 | If cars joining a crowded road take no account of the extent to which they slow down other road users , it may be almost impossible to rush from car to car offering or collecting bribes ! |
| 3 | But just to be on the safe side Mrs Lawson was stationed in 11 Downing Street , giving her husband a convenient reason to visit the capital if circumstances took a sudden turn for the worse . |
| 4 | He believed that the threat was temporary and held that , if nobles took a broad view , their prospects were good , but he also sensed the extreme urgency of the state 's need to foster entrepreneurial activity . |
| 5 | However , clinical and research experience has convinced us that if therapists maintain a problem-orientated approach as central to their work this enables them to keep their interventions focused on the most important issues for each patient . |
| 6 | If banks operated a rigid 12 ½ per cent cash ratio and the government reduced the supply of cash by £1 million , how much must credit contract ? |
| 7 | To change the metaphor , if airlines offered a similar speculative scenario , only fools would fly . |
| 8 | For example , if airlines share a computerized reservation system this makes it easy to monitor and collude on prices . |
| 9 | If workers hold a democratic vote to go on strike for whatever reason , it ill becomes a Labour government to legislate to make it unlawful . |
| 10 | If firms prefer a certain class of investor , they can use their dividend policy to achieve this . |
| 11 | If lawyers think a particular proposition about legislation is true by convention , they will not think they need any substantive reason for accepting it . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if theorists adopt a particular conception , then they should look at the way that contemporary social representations have developed their particular qualities through argument and how , in turn , these representations set the agenda for further argumentation . |
| 13 | Some shape names are complex and , if pupils have a limited appreciation of the properties of a shape , it is not likely that their memory for its name will be enduring . |
| 14 | He asked if residents wanted a new cemetery in Alresford , rather than use the Winchester cemetery . |
| 15 | Haug ( 1987 ) suggests that if women took a self-conscious and directed approach to their daydreams , these daydreams could be more feminist . |
| 16 | Anyone familiar with five- and six-year-olds would be puzzled to learn that they do not ask questions when they do not understand something : if five-year-olds have a failing it is that they never stop asking questions ! |
| 17 | Roberta if weddings disappeared a large part of your business wou would go would n't it ? |