Example sentences of "if they [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The mayor also gives jobs to people from other villages if they 're good football players . |
| 2 | Well if they 're that price I mean we 'll er go into it wo n't we ? |
| 3 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 4 | Shall we see if they 're any good ? |
| 5 | Smells and odours may be the most powerful single distraction of all — especially if they 're delicious cooking smells — because they 're the most pervasive and difficult to deal with . |
| 6 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 7 | they 'll only have trainers if they 're this make and |
| 8 | Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing . |
| 9 | why 's it , why they leaking if , even if they are flat roof , why are they leaking ? |
| 10 | However , Feargal Quinn makes a valid point when he argues that to talk about farm-based commodity production and the factory based processing to meet consumer demands as if they are one industry is a misleading simplification . |
| 11 | However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient . |
| 12 | Changed issues do not necessarily throw organizations into an anxious state of transition ; if they are any good , they are always in transition . |
| 13 | Most advertisements , if they are any good , are the outcome of a process of careful , detailed and imaginative analysis , which leads to the formulation of an advertising strategy for the brand concerned . |
| 14 | If they are any good , they know their business 's prospects better than anybody else . |
| 15 | If they are double shifting it 'll be on Monday . |
| 16 | Will people admit to having committed criminal offences , even if they are guaranteed confidentiality ? |
| 17 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 18 | It did a particularly good job of informing people about the issues — especially if they were tabloid press readers , who could get relatively little information from the press ; and it made electors feel more warmth and commitment to the party system and party leaders generally . |
| 19 | And he was n't alone amongst the instructors who felt this way : Jack Bisley , Sam Temple , and Amos Bernstein , they all admitted that they hated it ; but Angus McBride and Len looked forward to their trips as if they were half-day school holidays . |
| 20 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 21 | as if they were all part of some troubled dream I was having . |
| 22 | Probably would n't have really mattered why they split up if they were that rubbish to start with . |
| 23 | And if you did palm it off as a fact , it would be no excuse that you had done it non-linguistically : for example , by including clips from Sherlock Holmes movies in old newsreels as if they were genuine news items . |
| 24 | He dug his fingers into his ribs , massaged his cheeks , and patted the back of his thighs as if they were unproved bread . |
| 25 | There are important questions in relation to housing policy concerning the extent to which a free market can operate and the extent to which public housing authorities should act as if they were private business concerns . |
| 26 | However , if Target pays dividends to Newco outside the group income election , Newco can elect to set off its losses against such dividends as if they were taxable income ( see s242 ) . |
| 27 | The landlady looked suspiciously at the notes he proffered and asked if they were Belgian currency . |
| 28 | From 1987 , companies ' gains were charged to corporation tax as if they were additional income of an accounting period . |
| 29 | Since 1988 , individuals ' gains in excess of an annual exemption ( currently £5,800 ) have been taxed as if they were additional income . |
| 30 | These people regarded the punks as if they were middle class hippies ten years on . |