Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [be] [verb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chris Young , Chelmsford : ‘ If you were to believe that people buy a record by The Smiths because they wish to change something , even if it is only the music industry , then you are being very naïve about things .
2 If we 're , if we 're agreeing that women ought to be able to make informed choices , there 's so much information it 's actually very hard to make a , particularly if your
3 If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God .
4 If we were to accept that societies need to include a diversity of behaviour and belief in order to adapt to new conditions , this could surely be achieved by simply allowing such diversity .
5 If they are denied that prospect they will not litigate , and the community will lose the benefits the new rules would provide .
6 Such flexibility would be further enhanced if they were to accept that questions of law could have more than one possible answer .
7 And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe .
8 And if it be objected that A may act first ( against B ) and explain why afterwards , whereupon B acts to C 's detriment , the answer is that it is not A's act which has caused C 's loss but the implied threat that it will be repeated .
9 If it is assumed that v t and t are normally distributed , it can be shown that the ratio is distributed as an F-variate with g and n - k degrees of freedom , where g is the number of restrictions , n is the number of observations and k is the total number of coefficients being estimated in the unrestricted model .
10 If it is assumed that basolateral Na + -K + pump activity increases during acid secretion , K + entering the cell must recycle across the basolateral membrane to maintain intracellular K + concentration , and a basolateral conductance has been shown in Necturus and frog oxyntic cells .
11 If it is felt that incapacity should be at an end an unannounced visit to the claimant may be necessary .
12 Only if it is believed that independence is a function of employment income can the idea of increased dependency be automatically supported .
13 If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority .
14 This can be achieved only if it is recognised that research is essential in surgical practice and should be encouraged but , equally , that the person concerned must learn to operate .
15 However , even if it is accepted that treaties do not perform a single function and should not all be subject to the same rules , there remains the threshold question of how treaties are best conceptualised and categorised .
16 Less obvious is the misguided logic it offers , for , if it is accepted that blacks have the natural ability and talent to do well in sports , then it can do no harm to encourage their participation in sport .
17 However , even if it is accepted that IIAs are marginal to the prospects of urban economic development and employment creation , it seems evident that some approaches to industrial improvement are more successful than others .
18 If it is insisted that image worship is nothing but a form of idol worship , Gandhi 's response to this accusation is that image worship is simply indicative of man 's need for symbols .
19 Again , this makes sense only if it is allowed that Kimon had , for several years already , had his rivals : Pericles had prosecuted him for bribery , though the charge was withdrawn .
20 Contrariety will only appear here if it is specified that apples ( or pears ) constituted the whole of the purchase : All I bought were some apples/pears .
21 Affectivity is only incomprehensible if it is expected that emotions can be translated into thoughts with a proposition contained within them .
22 Additionally , if it is found that feelings of risk in the simulator are similar to those experienced when actually driving , and there is reasonable consistency between subjects in assessments , it is possible to infer the feelings of risk a subject is likely to experience when confronted with a particular situation without actually asking the subject to give ratings at the time .
23 If it is known that behaviour depends smoothly , and the second derivative of the dependence is never zero and its first derivative is bounded away from zero , then the Newton-Raphson method is better .
24 Very often , if it is known that additions will be made precisely evenly throughout the file , it will also be known when they will be made .
25 If it is proposed that equipment is installed on OUP premises to update and manipulate the OED text please answer 7.2.7–7.2.8 .
26 If it is proved that unit holders who have traded units recently have suffered as a result of pricing errors , some form of compensation will be made available .
27 The public will not be outraged if it is told that precedents will be confined to their facts .
28 I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ?
29 If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour .
30 The alternative , if it is contemplated that fees will be incurred during the life of the trust , is to take a separate deed of covenant from the husband and the wife , or either of them , whereby they or one of them agree to discharge the fees concerned .
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