Example sentences of "if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 2 | ACET is a church-based organisation whose primary concern is practical care rather than counselling , and so these areas are only covered if they are raised by our clients . |
| 3 | ACET 's response has been to provide clients with special tubes for the disposal of dirty needles and syringes or help them if they wish to cease injecting . |
| 4 | Pupils are encouraged to consider how they might feel if they were carrying the virus and how they might care for people with HIV/AIDS , especially those with unfamiliar lifestyles . |
| 5 | While over 2,300 people wait on death rows countrywide to see if they will die or not , we can only hope that the US comes to its senses soon . |
| 6 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 7 | Art books are expensive to produce , especially if they contain colour illustrations . |
| 8 | These may or may not have significance ; what needs to be certain is that descriptions are accurate , for if they are wrong , deductions from them will be valueless . |
| 9 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 10 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 11 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 12 | Book-writers , Faussone says , produce works ‘ which may be beautiful and all that , but , on the other hand , even if they were a bit defective , excuse the expression , nobody would die , and the only loser is the customer who bought them ’ . |
| 13 | This is something everyone wonders when starting out , even if they are not intending to make a living out of acting . |
| 14 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 15 | If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound , |
| 16 | But if they will not , throw away that spirit , |
| 17 | So the tutorial is a place for ideas as well as practice , and if they are well used they can help an actor to be more objective about the craft . |
| 18 | Remember , though , that badgering agents is quite useless ; if they want to come they will come , but telephoning them and overselling yourself can be just as useless as not letting them know that you 're alive and working . |
| 19 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 20 | Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so . |
| 21 | Those becoming solicitors , barristers , university lecturers , and doctors had to accept limitations on their careers if they stayed in Ulster . |
| 22 | Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks . |
| 23 | A similar exam is still compulsory for anyone seeking to enter the teaching profession without the required Leaving Certificate pass , even if they are never to teach the subject . |
| 24 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 25 | At one point , the protestants who are involved in violence are rough as opposed to religious , especially if they drink and smoke and do not follow the norms of thrift . |
| 26 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 27 | When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings , a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time , priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people , identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people . |
| 28 | The Roman catholic hierarchy declared that they had no opposition to this particular change , but one wonders how the vote would have gone if they had . |
| 29 | If they are looking for salvation , he wrote , they will find it . |
| 30 | Many of the interiors created by the designers of such facilities are as forbidding as the old-fashioned spit-and-sawdust pub ; any lingering atmosphere is swept away in a barrage of stained wood and fake Victoriana , and any casual visitors made to feel inordinately guilty if they do not , alas , wish to eat . |