Example sentences of "if they can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town need … have to win tomorrow … if they ca n't beat teams like Sheffield United then it 's big big trouble … |
| 2 | They would certainly have time to get to the river Almond and cut off any interference from the garrisons there at Perth and at Scone , even if they ca n't overwhelm them . |
| 3 | The rag I read mentioned Leeds might switch their attention to Alan Mclaren of Hearts if they ca n't lower the price being asked for 30-year-old Jobson . |
| 4 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |
| 5 | If they ca n't commit to high rates of profit , perhaps they should be working for a second-rate firm which plays budgetary games . |
| 6 | But we 're OK if they ca n't aim better than this . ’ |
| 7 | Do not tuck in sheets too tight , as frail people have difficulty in making themselves comfortable if they ca n't move easily . |
| 8 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 9 | And so this poor woman who was supposed to be asleep , And the problem is that er it 's very difficult to decide whether somebody 's actually unconscious or not if they ca n't move . |
| 10 | ‘ If they ca n't move it , it means it stays blocking the lane . |
| 11 | If they ca n't do that they simply have to go . |
| 12 | I 've spoken to Helen Wright at WEDGE and she thought what we are planning to put on tape would meet the needs of her clients with learning disabilities i.e. to ask someone to help them write or phone if they ca n't do it themselves . |
| 13 | It 's just that I 've already mentioned to someone else , and if they ca n't go , then I 'll offer it to you . |
| 14 | But , if they ca n't break the star system , if it is impossible for a band of this stature to remain an ‘ ordinary existence ’ ( although it must be stated that New Order deliberately unglamourise their existence , wisely slowing down their schedules and viciously guarding their faceless media presence . |
| 15 | After all it 's not as if they ca n't score . |
| 16 | It 's going to force them out of employment , if they ca n't manage then a lot of other things are going to go , they 're going to have to move to smaller houses . |
| 17 | Even if they ca n't inflict any wounds they can still swamp him with weight of numbers . |
| 18 | Both sexes worry about their appearance ; both are at risk from serious health problems if they ca n't control their weight . |
| 19 | ‘ There can be no collapse in the property market because sellers have a real reluctance to sell if they ca n't make last year 's prices . |
| 20 | Playtex Secrets Lycra-control underwear ( even if they ca n't make me look like Ulrika ) |
| 21 | If they do n't , if they ca n't spell they 're not literate ! |
| 22 | And if you if they ca n't absorb the information what 's the point in giving the signal in the first place ? |
| 23 | We do n't care if they ca n't dance , we still love them and they 're bald . |
| 24 | ‘ Give those out and pray that even if they ca n't speak English they can at least read it ! ’ |
| 25 | If they , if they ca n't speak properly , they have n't got much chance of writing a song . |
| 26 | It 's as if they ca n't stop . |
| 27 | If they ca n't stop |
| 28 | He stormed : ‘ The FA should suspend him for a couple of years and if they ca n't ban the video then they should fine him every penny he makes out of it . |
| 29 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 30 | I think the mother and child love is n't always pleasant and I think that 's quite worrying to some mother 's if they ca n't love their child in the way that people expect them to . |