Example sentences of "say [conj] if [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Labour 's spokeswoman on the economy , Margaret Beckett , says the Chancellor has n't stolen her Party 's cloak , and says that if the government had taken her Party 's advice a year ago , the economy would n't have gone through half the pain it has .
2 He says that if the council gave 100% rate relief , 25% would have to be borne by tax payers£39,195 this year .
3 He says that if the fire had melted the gas meter , there would have been an explosion .
4 Getting back to the numbers , Mr says that if the number suggested by ourselves , through our client of thirty one K were er adhered to that it may well reduce the ability completely of locals to gain access to the housing market .
5 In none of these cases could it be said that if a person entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer to another .
6 It was said that if the defendant took employment as a milk roundsman he would not be able to solicit orders for milk from any of the customers who had had their chairs renovated by the plaintiff company .
7 Lord Campbell , upholding the validity of the Act , refused to investigate the internal workings of Parliament saying that if the Act appeared valid on its face , then it must be accepted by the courts .
8 In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause .
9 Mr Justice Cooke said that if a receiver failed to terminate a receivership although he had funds that would have achieved just that , then he should be treated as if his authority had ceased .
10 In his summing up Lord Griffiths said that if a family had lost its right to priority treatment through intentional homelessness , the parents could not achieve the same result ‘ through the back door ’ by applying in the name of a dependent child .
11 Jerry Rawlings , chair of the PNDC , said that if the assembly completed its work on schedule a referendum on the constitution would be held in January or February 1992 and , if it won support , parliamentary elections would be held " by the last quarter of 1992 at the latest " .
12 Its spokesman , Rory Mair , who is also chief executive of Ross and Cromarty District Council , said that if the Government wished to retain any credibility over the matter it had no option but to accept the logical consequences of the select committee report and enter discussions with the local authorities on compensation .
13 He said that if the Government insisted on maintaining this levy for the year , it should raise the threshold to at least £245 per week , the weekly average industrial earnings .
14 Greenpeace executive director Lord Melchett said that if the government gave the go-ahead without calling a public inquiry , Greenpeace would return to the courts to seek a second judicial review " with our right to do so already established " .
15 He said that if the lawyer had felt he was being unfair to him he could appeal to another court .
16 He was making these trips at the suggestion of Lucas , the engineer to the GS&W ; , who said that if the distress got much worse , the government could hardly resist appeals to include authorized railways in the list of acceptable public works .
17 On December 29th Richard Gephardt , majority leader in the House , said that if the president waged war without a congressional resolution , ‘ Congress has to reach for the only tool left to it , which is to cut off the funding of the war . ’
18 This is not to say that if the situation had been different then it would still be true that if all of either had not existed , then if the other had not , the effect would not have occurred .
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