Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The registration is checked to see if it has been correctly completed . |
| 2 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
| 3 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 4 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 5 | They did not demand a search for set words ; they demanded instead that a disposition be scrutinized to see if it satisfied the law of trusts ( the principles of benefit and intention were the minimal requirements ) . |
| 6 | The lessons learned from the operation of this different way of determining merit will be carefully evaluated to see if it has potential to be applied also to HNCs and HNDs in the future . |
| 7 | I wait to hear if it stops . |
| 8 | This is one aspect organisers hope to change if it continues beyond 1993 , when the five-year guarantee of public funds runs out . |
| 9 | One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow . |
| 10 | They 're on a life raft , where the thing is n't going to float if it does n't get good notices . |
| 11 | Now what we 're on about yeah as I were on about , that er what I do is , with days like this , cos you can never guarantee if they 're gon na be dry , wet or what , so I watch to see if it rains , if it do n't they 're virtually dry when I fetch them in . |
| 12 | Every time the Government does a bit and waits to see if it works , by the time it finds out that it has n't done , it needs to do still more . |
| 13 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 14 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 15 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 16 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 17 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 18 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 19 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 20 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 21 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 22 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 23 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 24 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 25 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 26 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 27 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 28 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |
| 29 | I 'd have noticed if it had been missing . |
| 30 | No doubt she would have noticed if it had been used in the interim . |