Example sentences of "if they be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's see if they 're go in this I wonder if I can balance them on top of the on top of the potatoes . |
| 2 | They enjoy earthworms , shrimps and pellet food and will live for a good ten years or more if they 're cared for correctly . |
| 3 | They work on the principle that most people pay up if they 're pestered for long enough . |
| 4 | Garden centre managers need to know that wildflower seeds have to be grown from native stock ; that highly ornate ‘ mock-Tudor ’ nest-boxes put nestlings ' lives at risk by attracting predators ; that the natural balance of a pond is not best served by chemical algicides ; that salted peanuts are a killer for birds ; that eco-friendly insecticides are a contradiction in terms ; and that wildflowers and buddleias are little help to wildlife if they 're grown in peat-based compost . |
| 5 | ‘ If they 're sacked at the end , it 's a different matter but sometimes directors get off too lightly . ’ |
| 6 | But it could land them with a court bill of up to £200 if they 're stopped by the police . |
| 7 | Also , what you generally find is that if somebody is reading as opposed to refreshing their memory from looking at a piece of paper and then letting it flow , if they 're reading from it it 's dull , it lacks sparkle . |
| 8 | The next generation will have to cross many obstacles if they 're to return to the River Windrush . |
| 9 | Your fingers look as if they 're made of jelly . |
| 10 | Try to avoid wearing tight fitting trousers or underwear , especially if they 're made from artificial fibres . |
| 11 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 13 | It 's claimed that people feel uncomfortable if they 're plunged into a group of people who are perhaps from a different social class or background say . |
| 14 | The I R A if they 're asked to will ? |
| 15 | Those clergy earn £11,230 , which includes the community charge , plus a rent-free house , which looks more of a bargain than it is since , as Chrysogon Bamber , a member of the Bishop 's Council points out , ‘ If they 're living in a vicarage , then they 're not buying a house like everyone else ’ . |
| 16 | Er y you know especially if if if they 're living in the flat , you know above . |
| 17 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 18 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if they 're parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 19 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if their parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 20 | It 's as if they 're bowling on a totally different pitch . ’ |
| 21 | The police do n't yet know if they 're looking for an IRA gang or just one member acting alone . |
| 22 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 23 | and it 's if they 're taxing on the border |
| 24 | We 're asking people who drink , and that 's ninety per cent of the British adult population , to see if they can cut down by a quarter if they 're drinking above sensible levels . |
| 25 | You , the teacher , are taking the work seriously even if they 're struggling with it . |
| 26 | Okay , so erm do them and then if they 're lost on practical things like they do n't know where the toilet is will you help them . |
| 27 | Mister says if they 're defeated at the polls , it would hasten a general election which Labour could win . |
| 28 | If they 're offered at very long odds , the statistics demonstrate even more clearly although the odds are long they 're not long enough to make the be fair . |
| 29 | Oh , right , erm , I think Shropshire 's well placed for this sort of work , I remember when Shrewsbury was , was chosen for Christmas Carol , I mean not Stratford , not Chester , not the obvious places that spring to mind , but somewhere different , and I , I think Shropshire may be full of places which are not the obvious place , but which film companies may be able to find if they 're shown in the right direction , so I would certainly propose that we , you know , follow this line . |
| 30 | Is the product you know even a description of the product that we 're that they 're going into er will be suffice on the telephone , they do n't have to see these these these er items if they 're described in in er in enough detail . |