Example sentences of "if they do not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Straw said this involved ‘ veiled threats if they did not cough up and clear promises of honours if they did ’ . |
| 2 | He argued there were provisions in the Single European Act which ensured that member states could not be obliged to accept abortion services if they did not wish to have them . |
| 3 | He told a Westminster press gallery lunch that the problem was not the properly prepared Queen 's Speech programme of bills , but the demand for instant legislation following a serious event , with ministers being deemed failures if they did not promise a new bill . |
| 4 | Even if they did not speculate , many could raise warrant bonds at yields of 3–5% and put the money in bank deposits at higher rates . |
| 5 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 6 | In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently . |
| 7 | For generations prior to this calamity the custodians and promoters of Yahweh — that is , the now canonized Prophets of Israel — had been warning the people that if they did not abandon their syncretistic ways , the wrath of the one true God would descend upon them . |
| 8 | My students see that I can manage to get to work every day , and I think they would feel guilty if they did not turn up too . ’ |
| 9 | If they sent an ambulance she supposed she would get into it , but if they did not , then she would leave it because she did not have the energy to take herself to hospital . |
| 10 | At least they did so until the local priest warned them that if they did not stop , he 'd say a prayer that would make the dead rise from their graves and walk the length and breadth of the islands . |
| 11 | Usually , no doubt , the audience shared the unstated assumptions , but even if they did not , it would have been a solecism to answer the question . |
| 12 | Weismann , who was the first to raise so many important questions , suggested that animals senesce because , if they did not , there could be no successive replacement of individuals and hence no evolution . |
| 13 | Forest townships were compelled to pay the warden large sums of money if they did not attend Forest inquests at his summons . |
| 14 | If they did not , they would almost certainly be heavily defeated today . |
| 15 | It would be odd indeed if they did not celebrate by spending more and saving less . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , even if they did not get it wrong , their discomfiture is a matter of concern for the whole market research industry , of which political opinion polling accounts for a small but very visible part of an estimated UK turnover of more than £300 million . |
| 17 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |
| 18 | After meeting them , Nez Perce headmen including Lawyer and Timothy dispatched a delegation to St Louis in late summer 1831 to answer claims that ‘ the white man 's religion was better than theirs , and that they would all be lost if they did not embrace it ’ ( Catlin ) . |
| 19 | They were not , and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them . |
| 20 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 21 | If they did not instigate it , the Tsars immensely exaggerated the process of ‘ nationalization ’ of the subordinate peoples of Russia . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He proposed that barrackers should be thrown out of the ground if they did not respond to an appeal for fairness over the loudspeaker . |
| 24 | But even if they did not , the style demanded players of exceptional calibre — who were becoming increasingly rare — and a manager capable of moulding them into an effective outfit ; in this no one measured up to Chapman . |
| 25 | Seventy-nine per cent saw the sufferer daily ( and if they did not live with him or her this often involved several visits per day ) . |
| 26 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 27 | Programmes would wither away if they did not command sufficient local support . |
| 28 | However , it is fair to say that much would have been lost to the county if they did not exist . |
| 29 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 30 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |