Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specially where specially where they had the baby |
| 2 | It 's more like a luxurious rest-home for geriatrics , except rather than them paying the club , the club is essentially paying them . |
| 3 | One would predict that where a particular sibling is not willing or able to give support they are unlikely to receive it , except perhaps if they have given assistance in the past . |
| 4 | This method is designed to recognise profits as they accrue rather than only when they emerge as cash surpluses released from the life funds , as happens now . |
| 5 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 6 | In fact , if the problem is set within the context of an evidently powerful late-tenth-century Danish monarchy , it is difficult to believe that Harald Bluetooth or his son could not have introduced a naval system had they wished , and when the concern about the country 's southern land defences is remembered , along with the importance that must also have been attached to protection from sea-borne attack , it might seem more likely than not that they did wish . |
| 7 | Long moments later he lifted his head from hers , his eyes darker than ever as they gazed at her . |
| 8 | Alexander extended Russia 's borders further west than ever and they remained essentially unchanged until the First World War . |
| 9 | These results do not require us to dispense with the idea of an internal body clock , if only because they appear very rarely in experiments lasting only a week or so . |
| 10 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 11 | If only because they could be witnesses . |
| 12 | If only because they were alive , she wanted it . |
| 13 | If only because they are the sole member of their order , the Dermoptera , which means ‘ skin-winged ’ , the colugos must take pride of place . |
| 14 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 15 | Bilateral agreements may hold out more promise , if only because they are easier to administer . |
| 16 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 17 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 18 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 19 | Such explanations were comforting , if only because they pointed forward to the ultimate vindication of medical science . |
| 20 | In 1990 , although none of the damage was as concentrated in its severity , in many respects the results were just as bad , if only because they were more widespread . |
| 21 | Politically , the judicial conception of the public interest tends to embrace the promotion of certain views normally associated with the Conservative Party and there is a greater likelihood that Labour Governments will encounter challenges through the courts if only because they tend to be more interventionist and to challenge the status quo . |
| 22 | Given the considerable cost of setting up new regional machinery of its own , it seems likely that NAB will turn for help to existing structures and , of these , the RACs seem by far the most likely candidates , if only because they will serve to ensure the close involvement of the LEAs . |
| 23 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 24 | The two fresh contenders of greatest interest , if only because they were not even in the side when Scotland trounced Ireland at Murrayfield , are Peter Clohessy on the tight-head — a player who incurred the wrath of Australia 's Bob Dwyer but who was held to have made quite an impact on the Lions ' top brass versus Wales — and the young stand-off , Eric Ellwood . |
| 25 | The use by the Prime Minister of powers under the royal prerogative to ban trade unions at the Government Communication Headquarters at Cheltenham in 1983 was contested both for its lawfulness — that is whether such powers could be used and if so whether they were used correctly — and also for its legitimacy that is whether , even if the constitutional power existed , this was a proper and fair use of the power . |
| 26 | We can not conclude with confidence whether pigeons have a map sense at all , and if so whether they use the sun or magnetic co-ordinates . |
| 27 | In the Isle of Wight , the development of care programme systems and the need for monitoring were seen to require an increase in ‘ IT and support staff input ’ , although it is not clear whether this represented additional resources , and if so whether they could be met from the MISG or elsewhere . |
| 28 | The patients were asked whether they still had the pain and if so whether they had learnt to live with it . |
| 29 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 30 | Shoemaker asserts that Tunguska-like explosions should be a common fate of small bolides entering the terrestrial atmosphere , provided only that they are less strong than iron objects . |