Example sentences of "if they can not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coincidentally , the UK Government 's Department of Health launches a ‘ Help us to help you ’ campaign , wherein sick people are advised how not to waste the limited funds available for their treatment ( ‘ … remember to cancel appointments if they can not be kept … ’ ) and reminded by the Secretary of State for Health that ‘ Our primary care system is also the source of considerable envy abroad ’ , as I was reminded again during a recent trip to Russia . |
| 2 | The mastery of skills is of little use if they can not be applied . |
| 3 | However , deterrence will exist only when young people can be locked up in secure accommodation : if they can not be locked up , all this will be a waste of time . |
| 4 | In view of the large number of requests made we are unable to advise you pre-departure if they can not be met . |
| 5 | We all know , as dreamers , that dreams are genuine experiences , even if they can not be recorded with a camera or a tape-recorder . |
| 6 | Allegations such as these are easy for the investor to make and , if they can not be disproved , may give an investor a right of action for any loss he has suffered under s 62 of the FSA , which provides a direct right of action to a private investor who has suffered loss as a result of a contravention by an SRO member of the conduct of business rules . |
| 7 | If they can not be stopped in time , mankind will surely be doomed . |
| 8 | But for those with a relatively static model of the universe and more or less fixed expectations , the discrepancies are deeply troubling if they can not be ignored or resolved by supplementary perceptual categories . |
| 9 | With a fairly short grazing season , especially in the north , recent animal welfare laws stipulate that dairy cows must not be kept indoors throughout the year but at least exercised outside , even if they can not be grazed . |
| 10 | If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments , an electric keyboard can lie appropriate . |
| 11 | If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up . |
| 12 | If they can not be measured with any degree of objectivity , then effectiveness can only be judged in an incomplete way . |
| 13 | There is also the point that district society presidents are all volunteers and work very hard for the good of the district society and the Institute and it is a pity if they can not be allowed some enjoyment from their endeavours and also make new friendships which will last a lifetime . |
| 14 | Records on the prime data track , as has been explained earlier , may each cause a full revolution to be lost if they can not be processed during the time the inter-record gap is traversed . |
| 15 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 16 | ( ALT patterns , perhaps with different boolean parameters , are distinct if they can not be reconciled to a single choice , as was done in example ( b ) above . |
| 17 | If they are not claimed by their owners they are kept for seven days after which if they can not be sold they can be destroyed . |
| 18 | If they can not be brought together the organization must be changed so that they report — possibly only for this one task — to the same person . |
| 19 | If they can not be brought together the organization must be changed so that they report — possibly only for this one task — to the same person . |
| 20 | One of these is pupils ' attitudes to the various rival innovations , if they can not be coordinated together . |