Example sentences of "if [pron] say that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will forgive me if I say that the Treasury , as always , seems to have made rather heavy weather of this matter . |
| 2 | If I say that the sky is yellow , they say , ‘ Yes , Sir , you are right ’ . |
| 3 | But , as their pint-of-water escapades suggest , you could n't get further from the truth if you said that the NHS was a financially viable concern . |
| 4 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 5 | McTaggart comments : ‘ It might perhaps suffice if we say that the relation between the living body and the mental state must not be mediated by intervention of any other living body . ’ |