Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] if [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Brighton technology college course promised to examine if she was ‘ myth or monster ’ in her 11 years at No 10 .
2 Your mum wants to know if you 've got your vest on .
3 He must have seen my expression , for he said , ‘ This car makes a noise if you do n't fasten your seat-belt , and a light starts flashing if you have n't closed the door .
4 In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim .
5 Brian Brunswick , of the Health and Safety Executive , which investigated the case , said it appeared that the driver of the vehicle checked to see if anyone was behind him before reversing .
6 ‘ It is the kind of approach the council needs to take if we are to avoid the kind of apartheid against disabled people which this town may develop . ’
7 That reduction does not take account of further savings of £19.6 million that the council has to make if it is to avoid having its expenditure capped by the Scottish Secretary .
8 This pussyfooting has to stop if you are going to get anywhere at all with Sir Alastair 's excellent prospectus for the next 12 months .
9 And can a parent become involved if they are dissatisfied with the homework programme of the school ?
10 The reduction does not take account of further savings of £19.6 million which the council requires to make if it is to avoid having its expenditure capped by the Scottish Secretary .
11 Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ?
12 But the big day is today(thurs) , not Saturday , because that 's when the men from Greenwich Council come to see if they can give the £4 million redeveloped ground the safety certificate it needs for Saturday 's sell-out game to proceed .
13 I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success .
14 Dworkin himself suggests that no one has an individual right to have enforced all the laws of the nation , only those which he would have a right to have enacted if they were not already law .
15 Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission .
16 His nephew had asked if she was the one his uncle was going to marry .
17 During the flight try to sleep if it is night time at your destination and , when it is daytime there , try to stay awake — find somebody to talk to , a book to read or watch the in-flight movie .
18 Groups received questionnaire screening to see if there are any differences in the rates of dyspepsia between the two with a view to screening the high risk group of miners for gastric cancer .
19 When a famous cartoonist wrote asking if he could draw her she had no hesitation in accepting .
20 Surprisingly , no power is conferred for this purpose , either by statute or by the common law , although there was ample authority to enter to arrest if there were sufficient grounds to suspect that an offence had been committed .
21 Near enough That 's ooh in the oven and the steak 's done If it 's late I can grill it then you have it when you want it .
22 And her daughter has asked if she can continue
23 What are the most basic areas of research which the Church needs to undertake if it is to take growth seriously ?
24 One might ask how the church has grown if it is not out to recruit members from other denominations .
25 There are even now other issues on the pensions debate we have employers like Telecom using pension funds to fund redundancies we now even have the government looking to see if they can get hold of pension fund money in British Rail and in the Coal Board to see if they can also fund job losses .
26 One can , surely , only convincingly use a ‘ last opportunity ’ rationale to refuse relisting if one can be sure that such opportunity would have been provided .
27 His aunt and her daughter stayed to hear if there was anything of interest in the will which she had left in a drawer , but they went disappointed , giving Tim a couple of moist hugs on their way out .
28 The bar steward has asked if he can close the bar at eleven thirty tonight .
29 This first kite has to work if you are to be satisfied , so our first tip is for you to be conservative , and select one of the tried and tested shapes that give least trouble .
30 Luckily , the Devil cares not for checking visitors ' bus passes to see if they 're over-the-hill and struggling down the slope on their Zimmer frames .
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