Example sentences of "the [noun pl] of [noun] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As potential managers they will be better equipped to deal with the complexities of management if they realize that accounting is based on judgement and not on absolutes . |
| 2 | We can hardly expect adolescents to have respect for the possessions of others if they have no hope of attaining any of their own . |
| 3 | Right these are the sorts of things if you spring those on them . |
| 4 | Governor George Deukmejian , at the launch of the new safeguards , said that the law " will give California an unprecedented ability to prevent spills before they happen and to fight the effects of spills if they do occur . " |
| 5 | There will be a guarantee of £48,750 from public funds to the initiators of buy-outs if they do not succeed . |
| 6 | That would be impossible to accommodate without major adverse effect up what is a historic town , almost entirely er located within a conservation area , and as Mr Curtis said , erm constrained by the greenbelt , the final point is er it is located within the A sixty four corridor and it is inevitable that it would serve the needs of Leeds rather than the needs of York if it were expanded in that way . |
| 7 | There is an obvious tension between a laws-of-war approach seeking to minimise the horrors of war if it occurs , and a deterrence approach seeking to prevent war altogether by making it frightful . |
| 8 | None are exempt from this need to understand the principles of finance if they are to succeed . |
| 9 | Doctors have given Mr McTear , 48 , a former smoker , only a short time to live , but his case — which will open the floodgates of claims if he is successful — will take months to be heard in court . |
| 10 | Sandwiched between the sufferers and the directors or managers of the institution in which they work ( or overwhelmed by the pressures of survival if they work on their own ) they may expect or be expected to carry and solve the burdens of both . |
| 11 | Jay had told me a certain amount — about the offers of money if he left the deal clear for someone else . |
| 12 | ‘ It makes me believe that the NFU leadership is unwilling to do anything to really fight for the interests of farmers if it embarrasses the Tory Government . |
| 13 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 14 | Nowadays , Saint-Jean deals chiefly in the large if unappetizing tuna and the extremely appetizing but , compared with the whale , somewhat trivial catch , of anchovies ; but it is a town that smells very satisfactorily of brine and can be loud with the engines of trawlers if you go down to the harbour at the right moment . |
| 15 | Now used to kindness , she would not survive the streets of Cairo if they left her behind . |