Example sentences of "[noun] because if [pers pn] do " in BNC.

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1 I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama .
2 He thinks she should go to Pakistan because if she does n't she 'll get her own way .
3 They wo n't Brenda because if they did I would be opening the window or door and telling them exactly their fortune .
4 It means that the world is a slightly is a slightly safer place because if you do n't do this , if you do n't flirt , then it wo n't happen .
5 You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ?
6 This can cause problems because if you do not pay tax then you will not be able to sign the Certificate on form R190(SD) and ACET would not be able to re-claim basic rate on the payment .
7 Employees are scared to enforce their rights because if they did they would be unfairly dismissed .
8 Now that was a big fright to people in them times because if you did n't live within
9 So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini
10 Orrell 's basic requirement is to go on winning for three more games because if they do not , either Northampton or Bath , each with a match to play after today , will nip in for the prize , just as Wasps did on the final day of the 1990 league season .
11 Similarly for Locke we 're in this world , sent by God about his business , the business is , in very general terms , to flourish and multiply this means , well that is the reason why we have certain rights , the right to life , the right to liberty , the right to property because if we did n't have these rights we could n't fulfil that obligation .
12 Quite frankly , you have time to change your minds because if you do n't change your minds , those unemployed in with special needs will never forgive you and I certainly wo n't .
13 Yes I know , but we 're not er we wo n't fiddle about with them until we get well on to the way because if we do that now we got ta take the welder up , you 've only got ta cut them off again because they 're in the way for the rest of the bloody coaches .
14 It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones .
15 The chairman called on the Department to take action about those complaints because if it did not do so there would be little industry left to take action about .
16 I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat .
17 Well , in terms of survival of the fittest what it means is that natural selection does n't select for fitness because if it does , what is it doing ?
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