Example sentences of "to [noun pl] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 2 | It is all very well to say , as I am sure the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) will say — because it is what British Rail has said for months — that the great majority of passengers coming into King 's Cross on the channel tunnel trains will go to further destinations by public transport , but there will also be many hundreds of thousands of passengers in a year who will want to be met by friends in cars , who will want to get on to coaches if they are in large parties or who will want to take taxis . |
| 3 | Under the fund 's rules grants are given to projects if they promote the development of declining or under-developed regions , improve their infrastructure and create jobs . |
| 4 | Now that you see so it might be an idea If you have your table within the marquis , that does whatever you want it to do , that can talk to kids if they want and so forth , you see they they 're sort of juniors upwards . |
| 5 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 6 | It is possible to make such objects invisible to readers if they are irrelevant to the hypertext side . |
| 7 | But do n't add oil to baths if you have spots : try adding powdered seaweed to the water as it 's good for drawing out impurities . |
| 8 | But being annual they would be open to reprisals if they threw their weight around too much . |
| 9 | There would , however , be a selective audit of returns and self-assessed tax payments and taxpayers would be liable to surcharges if they failed to send in payments , returns or accounts on time . |
| 10 | It is helpful to worshippers if they have editions with at least the melody line printed with the words . |
| 11 | Is this something new for the new budget provide more training for carers and are we going to advertise it to carers if we are ? and the other point is transport and equipment . |
| 12 | Bigwig told Hawkbit and Speedwell that he 'd scratch them to pieces if they did n't obey him . |
| 13 | She 'll rip you to pieces if you keep her cub from her one minute longer than necessary . |
| 14 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 15 | In some cases it may be desirable to have an exclusive agreement with the distributor , otherwise he might offer competitors ' products to customers if they offer a higher margin . |
| 16 | Section 4 provides : ( 1 ) A person applies a trade description to goods if he ( a ) affixes or annexes it to or in any manner marks it on or incorporates it with ( i ) the goods themselves or ( ii ) anything in , on or with which the goods are supplied ; or ( b ) places the goods in , on or with anything which the trade description has been affixed or annexed to , marked on or incorporated with , or places any such thing with the goods ; or ( c ) uses the trade description in any manner likely to be taken as referring to the goods . |
| 17 | So therefore it might be of more interest to practitioners if I take some typical enquiries and describe the way they are tackled . |
| 18 | The degree of competition in a market is an imprecise concept , as it depends on those factors which force firms to take account of the possibility that their business will be lost to rivals if they do not satisfy their customers . |
| 19 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 20 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 21 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |
| 22 | Often it is a conscious rebellion against this sort of pressure which implies that such a man is only ‘ acceptable ’ to females if he is ‘ nice and clean ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 24 | Good god it Our Susan will be thrilled to bits if you went again . |
| 25 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |
| 26 | Christopher Brown , director of the NSPCC , said : ‘ How can you listen to children if you are hung up on smacking them ? ’ |
| 27 | If you are still using the facsimile machine to notify your visitors , why not consider switching to GATES if you can ? |
| 28 | that they offered AFP to women if they requested it , or where there was a family history of neural tube defects |
| 29 | ( The scheme applies equally to women if they are the absent parent but the vast majority of absent parents are in fact men . ) |
| 30 | Do you think it would help in commending the Christian gospel to others if we had women priests ? |