Example sentences of "argue [conj] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press . |
| 2 | The British government argued that if a major change in the system of documentation was not called for , but only minor incidental adjustments , such adjustments would be different in kind from those at present allowed by law . |
| 3 | Dooling argued that if an individual sentence is comprehended as part of a larger semantic unit , part of the meaning of the sentence is likely to be redundant . |
| 4 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 5 | Green argued that if the principle were extended to all eight counties the RAC would be controlled by the LEAs with a mere three members representing the WEA and only three representing the Cambridge Board with Hickson and Pateman as the committee 's servicing officers . |
| 6 | The United States then argued that if the European members of NATO were unwilling or unable to strengthen the alliance , then this would have to be achieved by permitting West Germany to rearm . |
| 7 | Moscovitch argued that if the subject uses a linguistic strategy , that is compares the names of two letters , then it should be more difficult for him to discriminate between acoustically ( e.g. I-Y ) than visually ( e.g. V-U ) similar letter pairs . |
| 8 | She argued that if the second statement in a pair contained a negative then it would be more natural for the meaning of the two statements to be different , whereas if the two statements were both affirmative it would be more natural for the two statements to have the same meaning . |
| 9 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 10 | He argued that if the defendant had provided washing facilities he would not have caught the disease . |
| 11 | The defendants argued that if the machine was securely fenced it would be unusable . |
| 12 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 13 | The LEA had argued that if a particular type of educational provision was generally available to children of the applicant 's age in their schools , then it was not a special educational provision . |
| 14 | It could be argued that if a connection with florid madness is to be revealed in biographical data this is most likely to be found in a conjunction among extreme cases : the very creative on whom most of the detailed accounts have concentrated . |
| 15 | It was argued that if a proper socialist legal system existed in China these cases would probably never have happened , or if they did , there would be official channels of redress . |
| 16 | It could be argued that if a claim for damages is based on a claim that a governmental body has acted illegally in a public law sense , then the damages claim should be attached to an AJR and be saddled with the same procedural restrictions as would apply to an AJR . |
| 17 | It could be argued that if a reduction in the number of 18-year-old girls leaving school is the source of the problem , then increase the proportion of leavers coming into nursing and all will be well . |
| 18 | It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology . |
| 19 | It will be argued that if a policeman is confronted by a situation in which he fears that violence will be directed towards him if he intervenes , or it is likely that there will be such violence , the offence is committed . |
| 20 | Some of those close to the Prime Minister have argued that if the artificial barrier posed by exchange controls were removed , the French franc and Italian lira would be forced to face the reality of the free market . |
| 21 | But , continued The Times , ‘ it may be argued that if the same thing is happening everywhere there is no need to worry . |
| 22 | Although this distinction has no basis in the text of the Convention , it was argued that if the person required to produce material or provide a deposition were a party subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the United States courts then the Convention did not offer any protection |
| 23 | Conversely it has been argued that if the composition of the House of Lords was altered , giving it more credibility , then its powers should correspondingly be increased . |
| 24 | It is sometimes argued that if the Earth , Venus and Mars were veneered by volatile-rich bodies subsequent to the main phase of accretion , then the inert gas graphs for the three planets in Figure 5.2 should lie roughly on top of each other . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is often argued that if the same sum were derived from indirect taxation , then any net disincentive effect that did occur would be that much smaller . |
| 26 | In this context it may be argued that if the ‘ inputs ’ are high in conventional terms it may reasonably be expected that the ‘ outputs ’ will also be high . |
| 27 | Therefore the actual payments are similar in Cantal and Powys , though the effect of the Sheepmeat Regime in the UK gave the Powys hill farmer an extra £2.08 per ewe ( on 1.34 million sheep ) in 1982 , though it could be argued that if an upland farmer in the UK can make use of the Sheepmeat Regime and claims its payments plus HLCAs , his farm should not be in the LFA at all . |
| 28 | In any case , they argue that if a country really wants to build its own bomb it will do so . |
| 29 | Critics argue that if the probe should explode on lift-off or veer off course and re-enter Earth 's atmosphere , the batteries could be pulverised , dispersing 260,000 curies of radioactive waste — more than half as much as has been released in all nuclear tests . |
| 30 | The argue that if the environment is to be properly safeguarded policies must be formulated which will encourage favourable ongoing management . |