Example sentences of "if they [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attacks on correctionalism are particularly important here since , as I have stressed throughout , they apply equally ( if they apply at all ) to classical criminology . |
| 2 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 3 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 4 | The highly reactive pentagon-road fragments , if they form at all , would form at an early stage of clustering when many small radical species remain . |
| 5 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 6 | I would add that camp is oft en also a turning of the second set of categories — theatricality , irony , and a sense of the absurdity of extreme feeling — onto the first , such that the latter — authenticity , intensity , the fierce assertion of extreme feeling — if they remain at all , do so in a transformed state . |
| 7 | What men would her own two children marry , if they married at all ? |
| 8 | If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems . |
| 9 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |
| 10 | When people were shown APR to start with , and then additionally shown the total cost of credit , they more often switched to a shorter repayment period ( if they switched at all — and differences were very small anyway ) . |
| 11 | If they differed at all , the differences would seem to have resided only in their membership — in specific individuals or personalities . |
| 12 | If they complain at all . |
| 13 | … how comparatively sweet was everything on board … no paint , no tar , no new rope ( vilest of smells to the squeamish ) , no grease or oil or varnish ; but instead of these , bamboo and rattan and choir rope and palm thatch : pure vegetable fibres , which smell pleasantly , if they smell at all , and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest . " |
| 14 | This was especially so with people who were likely to borrow large sums of money , if they borrowed at all . |
| 15 | in the erm living room , or dining lounge , what other light fittings did people buy apart from that , if they did at all ? |
| 16 | My understanding is that A those do n't exist at present within the deposit plan , but if they did at some future date , for any reason , that their function would be to be used after two thousand and six to sustain the permanence of the greenbelt . |
| 17 | They seemed to look through and beyond him and to focus — if they focused at all — on something infinitely remote . |
| 18 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 19 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 20 | This is an odd square , the Baroque façade of the church to the saint and the rococo façade of the church of San Bernardino contrasting poorly with the modern buildings whose architectural qualities — if they exist at all — are fairly well hidden . |
| 21 | ‘ If they read at all , they read trash from America . |