Example sentences of "if they [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means .
2 The back bends could be more versatile if they had flatter carvers , with more radius in the stem .
3 Aid will only be available if they pay larger amounts than those demanded now and which present experience shows they can not afford .
4 In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information .
5 For Community Care 's readers , an even more unpalatable fact is that few social workers have any idea what to do if they suspect elder abuse or know it occurs .
6 He subsequently accused them of attempting to blackmail the government , and threatened to place their operations under military control if they attempted further action .
7 If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest .
8 I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it .
9 They may also wish to avoid the possible constraints of association membership if they enjoy lower unit costs as a result of economies of scale or capital intensity so that they can make wage concessions which might jeopardise the existence of smaller enterprises .
10 Our children need to be aware that the more sexual partners a person has , the more likely they are to have sex with someone who is HIV+ , although the risks of infection are greatly reduced if they practise Safer Sex .
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