Example sentences of "if one [verb] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A conservative could adduce , in support of this contention , the fact that in scripture God is overwhelmingly conceptualized by using male metaphors ; that God came in Christ , a male human person ; and that he chose men alone to head the church ( if one thinks that the calling of the twelve bears a relation to the constitution of the church ) . |
| 2 | The magnitude of the special needs post-holder 's task becomes clear if one considers that these skills are to be geared to assisting classroom teachers of varying lengths of career experience ( often considerably longer than that of the ‘ qualified ’ supporter ) and range of subject specialities ( beyond the supporter 's expertise ) — teachers already under pressure from many directions and with ambivalent feelings about ‘ hawing problems ’ and ‘ being seen as in need of help ’ ; and if one considers that the supporter 's extended task is to deepen these colleagues ' understanding of ‘ special ’ learning needs , to enhance their skills , discover and develop their strengths and the confidence that the professional know.how they possess can be summoned for responding more appropriately to most of the behavioural , emotional and learning difficulties they encounter . |
| 3 | That the view of the judge 's role as declaratory is inadequate can be seen if one considers that the reason many cases come to court ( which are only a minority of the cases that are actually started ) is because there is genuine doubt as to what the law is . |
| 4 | Even if one thought that the pursuit of such predictions was useful , a great deal more information would be required , including a knowledge of the extent to which the rules were broken . |
| 5 | But why be wrestling with this God and seeking a blessing from him — other than if one believes that the text is of God ? |
| 6 | The argument that high taxes reduce the flow of private savings for investment in industry is only important if one believes that the ownership of industry should be in private hands . |
| 7 | If one believes that the universe will expand and then contract again , as the no boundary proposal seems to imply , this becomes a question of why we should be in the expanding phase rather than the contracting phase . |
| 8 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 9 | If one believes that the director did it , then giving credit , or distributing blame , is a reasonably simple matter . |
| 10 | He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ . |
| 11 | Even if one knows that an ancestor was buried in a certain parish , finding the appropriate registration district in the indexes can be problematic . |
| 12 | For example , even if one accepts that a man ought to pay his mistress , to require him to support her children , even if he is not their father , seems outrageous . |
| 13 | If one accepts that a person 's actions are freely chosen , one can not then argue that in some cases they are determined by outside forces . |
| 14 | Yet if one accepts that a number of very accomplished poets remained firmly off the routes of mainstream development , it must be accepted that the history of women 's poetry , and of poetry in general through the eighteenth century , has been interpreted in a simplistic manner . |
| 15 | Even if one accepts that the thesis accounts for why blacks are overrepresented in reactive activities such as boxing and soccer , and underrepresented in self-paced sports such as golf and swimming , it does not explain why blacks do not excel in such reactive sports as motor racing , tennis , fencing , squash or even skiing ! |
| 16 | If one accepts that the area of the event horizon is analogous to entropy , then it would seem that the surface gravity is analogous to temperature . |
| 17 | If one remembers that the rebels had sympathizers in London , although these may have been partly alienated from them by the disorders , it is all the more remarkable how quickly the city authorities reasserted their control and obtained substantial support . |