Example sentences of "if it [be] [adj] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |
| 2 | If it is true that Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role , Germany is a country with an identity crisis par excellence . |
| 3 | We have no way of measuring the immediate impact of this writing on Jewish readers because we have no document we can safely date about 300 B.C. But if it is true that Kohelet , Ecclesiastes , wrote in the early third century B.C. , one must acknowledge that at least one of the Jewish sages was not prepared to play the part the Greeks had assigned to him . |
| 4 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 5 | Its success must have been largely through her efforts if it is true that Frederick was often away from home . |
| 6 | If it is true that God made us for himself , then without God we are bound to live with an underlying frustration and unhappiness . |
| 7 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 8 | Even if it is true that Saddam is Hitler and human evil incarnate , or less dramatically , that the Iraqi regime is akin to fascism , and must be destroyed , is the benefit simply self- evident — that international law will be asserted as the Kuwaitis regain their autonomy over the grave of their oppressor ? |
| 9 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |