Example sentences of "[be] [conj] if they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in terms of functional group isomerism I 'm gon na take a slightly different example right let's take this one here first of all I 've now started to do what the examiners will do now I 'll make them identical structures there somewhere and you really do need to be able to name them in order to see where they are or if they are . |
| 2 | The more I read about Opposition policy the more convinced I am that if they were in government there would be no food left to eat in this country . |
| 3 | We do ask them how old they are and if they are younger they bottle out when you ask them |
| 4 | And then the er the older ones when they were if if they were sitting on the walls outside , the erm deck level flats , again they were either disturbing the people there or , the people were out shouting at them to get away and sit on their own walls and things like that . |
| 5 | The fear is that if they are published , Parliament will pass a law against smearing politicians . |
| 6 | The point to note about the above defences is that if they are given a wide construction by the courts ( and it is too soon to tell , as too few cases have been brought ) , then the risk of prosecution diminishes even further . |
| 7 | The problem with trial trenches is that if they are very small it is easy to miss the main features of a site , yet the larger the trenches used , the nearer the process becomes to full-scale excavation . |
| 8 | The obvious danger is that if they are unable to earn a living for themselves , that states of Central Europe will slump back into their earlier condition . |
| 9 | The problem with alienistic attitudes is that if they are allowed to become the foundation of the system — the part of the system that everything else hinges upon — they are hard to shift . |
| 10 | The dilemma is that if they are enlarged the danger of stepping through them is increased . |
| 11 | What I say about it is that if they are put off they should phone the police . |
| 12 | Well I think the attitude is and maybe I 'm totally wrong the attitude is that if they 're outside , they 're not creating mess and havoc in the house . |
| 13 | ‘ Only that the reason they did n't rape me was because if they were found out they would be killed . |