Example sentences of "[conj] if they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on . |
| 2 | Sometimes the strong sense of form causes individuals to rise to the occasion or if they do not , their inadequacy can be contained by the form itself . |
| 3 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 4 | These regulatory agencies are increasingly faced with transnational adversaries who are capable of shifting their main base of operation — or if that is too drastic , their illegal activities at least — to other countries where laws against such behaviour do not exist , or if they do , where enforcement is even more lax . |
| 5 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 6 | The evidence , however , would suggest that in general schools either make little attempt to develop this ability in their pupils , or if they do , it is done very ineffectively . |
| 7 | Er what we tell these patients is that they do n't have evidence of obstruction , or if they do have obstruction , then that obstruction does not threaten their kidney and that it would be appropriate to wait and watch their symptoms . |
| 8 | No one notices , or if they do , they notice behind my back . |
| 9 | Cos half the adults do n't do they , or if they do , it 's normally taken as a sign of severe erm , upset , is n't it ? |
| 10 | Or if they do evaluate then it 's to say it 's not working but it 's not our fault , there could n't possibly be anything wrong with our thinking on this subject or this issue . |
| 11 | Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them . |
| 12 | Nobody 's listening but I insist : ‘ This fairness of skin obliges them to shield themselves so that if they do catch the sun they avoid the obvious danger of peeling . |
| 13 | We can always warn trouble-makers that if they do n't stop it the RAF will deal with them ( c ) Cruisers are not needed and should be scrapped ( d ) Aircraft Carriers and naval Aircraft are unnecessary . |
| 14 | At least , present theories do not say they should weigh anything , and observation has suggested that if they do weigh something , it is next to nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've tried to impress on people - I go round the schools and catch them young — that if they do n't leave us their stuff , uncaring descendants may simply throw out a tool , plate , picture or letter , preferring to have a stainless-steel fork , a plastic plate , a multiple … ’ |
| 16 | Part of the drive to improve inner cities is deliberately to reward success , increase the gap between the working and the non-working , retain business and talented and successful people in these areas , and charge those who use services the economic cost of these services , so that if they do n't like the price they will be encouraged to move out to areas where ‘ the price is right ’ . |
| 17 | Many parents feel , too , that if they do n't intervene , hurt and/or an injustice will be done to the younger and/or weaker child . |
| 18 | The testator hints that if they do a good job they may expect as their reward that their sons will be made over into their power . |
| 19 | On the other hand , this point of view has to be balanced against those who protest that they only ever see politicians at election time and that if they do n't even call then they are undeserving of a vote . |
| 20 | ‘ These days they build breaks into them so that if they do knock one over by mistake , it does n't take the whole lot with it . ’ |
| 21 | GEORGE GRAHAM last night assured the Football Association that if they do n't deal with Ian Wright , Arsenal will . |
| 22 | There is always the danger that if they do send someone , it will be a junior reporter who does not know how to handle ‘ religious ’ news or is unsympathetic . |
| 23 | Miners , aerospace workers , no one seems to be safe from the axe — except perhaps all these public servants who think that if they do n't get a hefty pay rise every year they are hard done by . |
| 24 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp , their Unix efforts will hang separately , IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and its Univel Inc unit , and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at the UniForum trade show in San Francisco yesterday to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix vendors — but over time , the effort will extend beyond the desktop to embrace common networking , graphics , multimedia , distributed object technology and systems management . |
| 25 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 26 | This suggests that if customers pay extra , their films will be better protected and that if they do n't pay the extra charge the company wo n't be liable . |
| 27 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 28 | Everything is explained to them , including the fact that if they do travel beyond the range of the device they 'll be re-arrested and prosecuted for attempted escape . |
| 29 | We should consider also , that if they do exist then they may be but a part of a much larger pattern which stretches not only access the tiny and remote areas of south-western France but across western Europe and possibly other parts of the world . |
| 30 | Now the r the reason for us doing that is that if they do accept it , they are duty bound as a council to write to Prime Minister , Prime Minister , direct , saying they support the declaration of intent . |