Example sentences of "[det] if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 2 | He argued , quoting The Green Book , that all children should have the opportunity of education , and he thought it most improbable these girls would have this if they had to travel to Zawiya . |
| 3 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 4 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 5 | Fuel-burning appliances need an adequate supply of air to work efficiently and safely , so unless they have balanced flues , the rooms where they are sited must contain provision for this if they are well sealed against natural draughts . |
| 6 | They will never do this if they are running around loose . |
| 7 | However , they will only do this if they have a chance of hitting an adventurer — if a spell such as Zone of Sanctuary is in operation , for instance , the Skeletons will bide their time . |
| 8 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |
| 9 | it 's no good saying to someone come on you should know this if they do n't it does n't help does it . |
| 10 | Why go through all this if they already have the answers ? |
| 11 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 12 | Obviously they will be much more willing to do this if they already have plenty of spare liquidity . |
| 13 | Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ? |
| 14 | This total would be cut by half if they transferred their educational budgets to central government . |
| 15 | People must believe that you 're such a tough shit you would snap them in half if they sneezed . |
| 16 | 1.5 Under s11 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 ( see Appendix B ) parties can plead convictions against one another if they are relevant to issues in the civil proceedings . |
| 17 | Port Vale are the only team certain to finish below Keegan 's men and , although Brighton would be another if they failed to beat Portsmouth at the Goldstone Ground on Wednesday , last day wins by Oxford ( at Tranmere ) and Plymouth ( at home to Blackburn ) would condemn Newcastle to Third Division football even if they drew at Leicester . |
| 18 | Amongst both Labour and Conservative identifiers , it declined twice as much if they read a right-wing paper . |
| 19 | But I 'm not paying that much if they dress up as … as … . ’ |
| 20 | She wondered if you would mind very much if they came another time . |
| 21 | What work should be done within a year of moving in — jobs that can wait a while and would n't inconvenience you too much if they were done around you . |
| 22 | This might not matter too much if they have read all the competition copy first , but it is a point to watch . |
| 23 | This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't mind so much if they were girls … ’ |
| 25 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 26 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 27 | They will do that if they win two of their remaining three fixtures at Highfield Road , but current form suggests that will not be easy . |
| 28 | They 're going to have to do something fast about that if they do n't want an epidemic on their hands . ’ |
| 29 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 30 | One trap to be aware of is that of relying simply on checklists of good practice ( like , ‘ Keeping the school under review ’ — ILEA ( 1977 ) ) : teachers ask themselves whether or not their schools are carrying out each item , the implication being that if they are not , they should be . |