Example sentences of "if they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
| 2 | Infants can also be observed to enjoy playing with their faeces , something which adults do if they regress to the anal phase when in a confined cell , in prison or hospital . |
| 3 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 4 | An example of this is the trigram model used in the TANGORA speech recogniser ( Jelinek , 1986 ) which assumed that histories are equivalent if they end in the same two words . |
| 5 | Whatever their basis in nefarious dealings , misunderstood intelligence , or dreams , noble things were being attempted , and if they came off the world would have cause to be grateful . |
| 6 | ‘ I think back to people like Allan Clarke , who were annoyed if they came off the pitch without scoring a goal . |
| 7 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 8 | He spoke very shrewdly and at alarming speed , in a low voice that seemed to come from elsewhere ; though his lips might be moving in front of Arthur , the shafts of help would sound as if they came from the wings or the orchestra pit . |
| 9 | S some of them did yes if they came in the springtime and then in the ar in in the harvest time . |
| 10 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 11 | If they went to the house and saw him move into the door , they 'd turn out the family , look everywhere and he was not to be found . |
| 12 | If they went to the common law courts , they would be told that the legal estate in the land was vested in the grantee , and that he was entitled to the benefit himself . |
| 13 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 14 | The Assembly had 386 seats and under the country 's complex electoral system ( approved in October 1989 — see p. 36961 ) , there were 176 single-member constituencies , where results were decided either by overall majority in the first round , or in a second round to which candidates would go forward if they finished in the top three or obtained over 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 16 | It follows , of course , that service contracts are ineffective if they conflict with the Articles of Association of the company . |
| 17 | The plumed seeds of Dischidia parvifolia ( Asclepiadaceae ) are wind-dispersed but , if they land in the vicinity of ant nests , they are gathered and taken into tunnels , where they germinate and their roots gain access to nutrients in the insect frass . |
| 18 | I tell the young people joining us that the great division in their lives , if they climb in the business , is the division between the company and their family . |
| 19 | Farmers were confident that if they sold to the Commission there would be no great rush of Germans to buy it , and the Commission could not sell the land to the Poles . |
| 20 | If they come into the world hard and cold , they end harder and colder , if they come generous and sweet , they grow ever sweeter and more generous . |
| 21 | and er if they come off the leads you see |
| 22 | Or complaint examiner , but even then the investment in that person if they come at the end of the year go , I I would say , what a waste . |
| 23 | Well , you know , if , if they come like the bloody clappers there ! |
| 24 | If they come from the Berlin orchestra , they need no references , so other orchestras will take them ; though we know that one day they will return to this orchestra . |
| 25 | The curriculum is designed by teachers who unconsciously reflect the view that city life is best , even if they come from the rural areas . |
| 26 | How will your mercenaries know we are friendly , if they come from the east ? ’ |
| 27 | They can seem quite dangerous if they come from the sky and land on someone 's head . |
| 28 | If they come in the middle of the night , you ai n't even gon na be awake . ’ |
| 29 | But in her I see the carrier of the seed of all the wonder-rabbis that ever were : not the great Akiba nor Hillel nor Hananiah , not all the sages of Sura , Safed and Sefarad , could perpetuate the tribe if they lay with the earth 's fairest , wisest , most fertile alien women : Jewishness comes only through the mother . |
| 30 | No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer |