Example sentences of "if they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even big companies fear that the safety of their equipment and their employees will be at risk if they seek waste-disposal contracts in the city . |
| 2 | Local authorities can give discounts of up to 30% if they sell empty houses or flats to priority groups such as first-time buyers and to those moving to their area to start a new job . |
| 3 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , if they went forty miles an hour , but they do n't . |
| 5 | If they afforded unique opportunities , especially in the international realm , they also posed the ultimate challenge for him : to elevate the banality of peace and prosperity into something epic . |
| 6 | but where if they sold little packets of sweets |
| 7 | the safety officers of today , oh they 'd have a blue fit if if they saw such things you know . |
| 8 | ‘ All that rigmarole about the house being a haunted house was just to keep people from inquiring if they saw any signs of William Egan 's habitation ? ’ |
| 9 | Even if they survive those patients undergoing suffocation are suffering unacceptable and repeated abuse . |
| 10 | If they overcome these guards , and manage to break into the cages , the adventurers still have the difficulty of getting into the chests . |
| 11 | I tell them I 'm the Conductor , tell them where my office is , tell them if they 've any problems to bring them to me . ’ |
| 12 | Who , who if they 've cold feet lies awake , till they warm up ? |
| 13 | They victimise you if they know two women are going together ; they really play on it . |
| 14 | Cavers like Clair Bishop , who came into contact with the chemicals , have been told if they suffer ill effects see their doctors . |
| 15 | If they became tied agents they were authorised to do business through the life office which took them on ; the life office , in turn , was responsible for their conduct . |
| 16 | Even liberals believed that the colonies would remain loyal if they received economic benefits and shared in the ideals of liberty , equality and fraternity , which France provided through her ‘ civilising mission ’ . |
| 17 | A communiqué passed to the government on Nov. 22 by a group of prominent citizens known as " the notables " , believed to mediating between the government and the Medellín drug cartel , contained an offer from the cartel that between 200 and 300 of their members would surrender to stand trial if they received official assurances that they would not be extradited to another country . |
| 18 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 19 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 20 | The implicature the people derive seems to be that , if they hear starling-like noises starlings must be there . |
| 21 | If Chesterfield win then we 're in into the realms of er the old calculator , er because if they win all teams will have three points . |
| 22 | If they acquired these infections from HIV negative partners , those partners will have been at risk of HIV infection . |
| 23 | How does one decide whether company directors are functionally more important than their workers , and if they receive five times as much as workers , does this mean they are five times more important ? |
| 24 | We report here that although rats learn to discriminate between landmarks on the basis of their proximity to a reliably predicted food reward , they will only learn to use them to represent its location if they maintain stable locations within a geometric frame of reference . |
| 25 | ‘ If they take seven piglets in a night , ’ he said , ‘ that 's £70 lost straight away . ’ |
| 26 | They will be safe if they take three points . |
| 27 | They will be safe if they take three points . |
| 28 | If they take three months you will be financing 25 per cent of your year 's sales and at four months you will be financing 33.3 per cent . |
| 29 | If if they take both sides . |
| 30 | Indeed , one of the researchers ' most important tasks is to ascertain for my benefit what kind of conversation we 'll be likely to have — whether the guest talks nineteen to the dozen , in which case I 'll need to prepare lots of questions , or if they take ten minutes to say ‘ Good evening ’ — in which case I 'll start praying . |