Example sentences of "if [pers pn] is [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if it is untrue that this is so ? |
| 2 | If it is improbable that any further major developments will come from this stock , it is also unlikely , on the evidence of the last six hundred million years , that the group will disappear as long as life remains possible at all in the seas of the world . |
| 3 | If it is true that 7 million tonnes of straw are wasted each year , why is straw so expensive to horse riding , racing , and show jumping stables ? |
| 4 | If it is true that verbal questions primarily engage the left hemisphere while spatial questions tap the functions of the right hemisphere , it might be predicted that responses to such questions will be optimal when the appropriate hemisphere is activated rather than if the opposite hemisphere is aroused . |
| 5 | If it is true that public goods and services are oversupplied when benefits are concentrated and costs ( revenues ) dispersed , should they not by the same argument be undersupplied when benefits are dispersed but costs concentrated , or when both costs and benefits are dispersed ( Goodin 1982 ) ? |
| 6 | Further , if it is true that later eighteenth-century urban workers had a " standard " five-day week , albeit of sixty hours , then the factory was to make a very significant difference by insisting on six . |
| 7 | If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . |