Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [adv] wished " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Donovan worked for a local authority and , during the course of disciplinary proceedings , was told that she would be permitted to terminate her employment on the last day of the year if she so wished . |
| 2 | Roxie could do that if she so wished . |
| 3 | The beautiful if bemused Dr Moule , invited to stay if she so wished , took a seat in the front row . |
| 4 | ‘ You could be my designer if you so wished . ’ |
| 5 | But of course could do so if you so wished . |
| 6 | Even if you genuinely wished to forgo your claim , do you think Rohan would allow it ? |
| 7 | Although most of them rarely attend , hereditary peers could still , if they so wished , dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords , and it occasionally happens , when a matter of vital and controversial national concern , such as the abolition of hanging , galvanises them , that many more than usual attend . |
| 8 | Personally , I have no strong views on substitution or replacement , but it would be better for the image of the game as a whole if sham injuries were removed by allowing teams to substitute players if they so wished . |
| 9 | Strongly opposing the maintenance of an essentially arbitrary general retirement-age , the Committee recommended that the test for engagement or retirement should be capacity , not age , and that all who could give effective service should have the chance to continue in work if they so wished . |
| 10 | They were therefore in possession of all the necessary material facts to enable them to make a complaint a civil claim if they so wished . |
| 11 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 12 | Whilst no such boycott is due to happen this year , Testing is not compulsory and parents would still be able to withdraw their children if they so wished . |
| 13 | Of course , British Members of the European Parliament if they so wished could make their points and their views known . |
| 14 | Before the Danish ‘ No ’ vote and the narrow French ‘ Yes ’ vote , there was broad understanding that , barring upsets , Austria , Finland , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland could , if they so wished , become full EC members in 1995 . |
| 15 | John Saville , chairman of the J Saville Gordon parent group , said there was nothing to prevent the local authorities using their compulsory purchase powers to acquire the site if they so wished . |
| 16 | The British government possessed reserve powers , so that it could interfere in the government if it so wished . |
| 17 | It would be possible for one of the existing Select Committees to consider the issue , if it so wished . |
| 18 | It also claimed that the revenue generated from the industry had provided Nauru with " the highest per capita income in the world and would have allowed the Nauruan government to rehabilitate the mined areas if it so wished . " |
| 19 | Erm it it does like this sir that I would imagine that what what we 're after here is a policy which would enable a local authority if it so wished to put into its local plan a strategic site . |
| 20 | But , of course , his attack was very much on-target if he simply wished to attack those elements of the media that were least favourable to his own party and government . |
| 21 | He freely acknowledged that responsibility for the development in rural areas of Essex would lie with the RAC but he invited the resident tutor to expand , if he so wished , his activities into existing WEA centres at Chelmsford , Harwich , Dovercourt and Silver End . |
| 22 | It was a dream that could , if he so wished , become reality . |
| 23 | If he so wished , Edward I or Edward II could disown the actions of the proctors in the Parlement . |
| 24 | The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances . |
| 25 | A clause inserted by Lord Muncaster reserved for himself the right " at any time during the said 21 yrs " , if he so wished , to become a " partner of ¼ in the concern " by paying a " full part of the expenses from the commencement thereof of working the same … " |
| 26 | And Christie Goldsborough , who owned those pawnshops and those taverns could find out if he so wished just where her satin had gone . |
| 27 | He was free to follow his inclinations and join the worshippers at the Methodist chapel , if he so wished . |
| 28 | I have taken advice about what would be involved in amending the Bill to allow for such a further education council to be established at a later date by a future Secretary of State if he so wished . |
| 29 | Furthermore , he could leave the manor if he so wished , and could therefore negotiate for better terms from the lord by threatening to go if the latter refused concessions ( 79 , p.31 ) . |
| 30 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |