Example sentences of "[prep] if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , a popular view amongst community relations police in the area is that many more schools would welcome them but for intimidation , a factor which the community relations police have to be very sensitive towards if they are not to threaten the safety of children and teachers . |
| 2 | The British Library Act state quite clearly that books may be disposed of if they are duplicates , though this raises the question of what exactly a duplicate is . |
| 3 | Cheap washable sheets and covers , which are the most practical as they can be disposed of if they become heavily stained . |
| 4 | It was n't a matter of if they would return ; it was merely a question of when . |
| 5 | If it 's humanly possible , lay them down , raise the legs , how about if they 're shivering ? |
| 6 | I think they 're a very dangerous mode of education because they provide a very stereo-typed image of everything , everybody that they 're talking about if they 're talking about sex , they presume to be able bodied , they 're presumed to be white generally , they 're presumed to be heterosexual , if they 're talking about homosexual then , it 's definitely male lesbians |
| 7 | And how about if they prayed ? |
| 8 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 9 | However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target . |
| 10 | What about if they 're fourteen ? |
| 11 | Well you heard what he said he wants his children to have a good education and he pushes them all the time , they 've got ta if they do anything |
| 12 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 13 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 14 | Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time . |
| 15 | After the cool period , treat the bulbs exactly as if they were growing in compost . |
| 16 | It is not surprising , therefore , to observe a tendency amongst materialists to treat all properties as if they were purely relational . |
| 17 | These qualities are perceptible but the nature of their interactions is never talked of as if they could be quantified . |
| 18 | But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences . |
| 19 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 20 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 21 | These words tend to be read as if they were regular . |
| 22 | Consequently , words like ‘ colonel ’ or ‘ yacht ’ are pronounced as if they were non-words . |
| 23 | Learning them by heart as if they were magic signs . |
| 24 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 25 | People often refer to ‘ the elderly ’ as if they were a single group of people , but their needs are as varied as those of any other group in our population . |
| 26 | This made the dancers appear as if they were a moving frieze . |
| 27 | As with the highly misleading phrase Stavrogin 's Confession , critics and commentators behave as if they had got into a huddle . |
| 28 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 29 | Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements . |
| 30 | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering — and at half-time , building on their win over Newbridge , it looked as if they would . |