Example sentences of "if they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Delinquent parents need to feel the contemporary lash if they wo n't persuade their children to behave , ’ he says . |
| 2 | ‘ And if they wo n't play ? ’ says Brian Everthorpe . |
| 3 | Cecily , Yvonne and I have determined that we are going to tour South Africa — following almost the same route as Merry Wives — with either the Ballet Club or , if they wo n't cooperate , we will form the South African National Ballet . |
| 4 | If they wo n't , then it is good for the leader to discuss it in private with the individual . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if they wo n't look they wo n't see , ’ said the children . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if they wo n't believe , they wo n't know , ’ said the children to Polly . |
| 7 | What is the point of having armed escorts if they wo n't shoot ? |
| 8 | ‘ Owners complain about low prize money but there is no point in our executive putting up £25,000 with prize money down to fourth for a non-sponsored race if they wo n't support it . |
| 9 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , one of the candidates for John Akers ' job , has been telling IBM Corp 's directors what he reckons should be done to rescue the company — and it ai n't pretty : according to the Wall Street Journal , he is outlining something very like what we suggested , hiring top people in the appropriate industry segment — Andrew Groves , Michael Dell , Alan Shugart , Scott McNealy , people of that ilk , to run each of the new business units , and if they wo n't come on board , he says , IBM should sell them respectively the chip , personal computer , disk drive and workstation lines of business . |
| 10 | its , it , the other truck drivers and I have to say that erm to a certain extent you do need to be forceful and positive because er they need a lot of space to manoeuvre on the road and a lot of people who drive cars do n't quite realize how much space they need and if they wo n't give you the space you have to take it . |
| 11 | Erm what I 'll do actually seeing as I 'm I get easy access to the town centre is I will go in there and see if they will agree to it , and if they wo n't |
| 12 | Harold asked the question that I expected ; ‘ If they wo n't meet Barbara , who will they meet ? ’ |
| 13 | If they wo n't tell us , that 's their affair . |
| 14 | If they wo n't that 's a danger signal . |
| 15 | ‘ If they wo n't come to us then we 'll have to go to them . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe we should tell the police , ’ suggested Sam , ‘ if they wo n't . ’ |
| 17 | If they wo n't you may have to claim against the Post Office . |
| 18 | But if they wo n't talk — or perhaps do n't even know precisely what goes on — we 've shown our hand , and got no tricks . |
| 19 | Whatever they say about the law being on the landlord 's side , if they wo n't go , the law wo n't make them . |
| 20 | If they wo n't order the stock , do they really expect a new franchisee to do it ? |
| 21 | If they wo n't listen we will consider invoking the disputes procedure . ’ |
| 22 | As er , she can go if they wo n't let Kirsty in , she can go one night , he can go another night . |
| 23 | Team attire for the match will be silver space-suits ( if they dare turn up ) . |
| 24 | This poem uses lots of words that sound as if they ought to be proper words but are not . |
| 25 | I do think when they 're caught , they are , to me it seems as if they ought to be made to clear up some graffiti and and realise what they 're doing because , I do n't think half the time , they realise the the upset they cause . |
| 26 | Because the typification is very inclusive , covering known criminals and people who look as if they might be , it gets its meaning partly from practical experience of people who typically commit crime in Easton , but also from prejudices that derive from middleclass notions of respectability . |
| 27 | But with personal contact through the old jobbing system on the floor of the Stock Exchange , experienced people could see Old Joe coming and knew what to expect — even if they might sometimes join in to make a little extra money . |
| 28 | The government is reviewing the cases of about 60 people sentenced for political or security offences to see if they might qualify for pardon . |
| 29 | His knees were wobbling as if they might collapse under the strain of holding his body upright . |
| 30 | But it looked at one stage as if they might lose their first choice and have to stay in Reigate for another summer when negotiations for the purchase coincided with their long-planned holiday of a lifetime — watching last month 's world cup cricket in Australia . |