Example sentences of "that if [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain .
2 They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year .
3 They warn that if they cut costs to compete they must also lower their standards .
4 Underlying all actions is the fear that if they show emotion and feelings , they will be led again to submit to an outside control .
5 Some people find that if they take tomatoes
6 ‘ They are obsessed with the idea that if they make changes , it 's a criticism of the way they are doing things .
7 Would it not be a good idea if the airlines , when checking in passengers in those countries from which large quantities of drugs come to this country , were to hand each passenger a paper in his or her own language clearly explaining that if they bring drugs into the United Kingdom they are likely to be caught and , if they are caught , they are likely to go away for a very long time indeed ?
8 ‘ We have repeatedly warned people that if they assist burglars in disposing of stolen property , they risk being put out of business , ’ said Mr Shatford .
9 Later ex-Croydon staff found to their cost that if they accepted promotion , they then came under London Transport conditions , which followed closely UndergrounD Group practices .
10 The main objective , if they could not in fact capture Balliol , was to frighten him , give him warning to keep away from Scotland in future , and show Dacre and the North of England generally that if they aided Edward Plantagenet , they were vulnerable to dire reprisals .
11 But has n't it occurred to you that if they have access to knowledge and culture from a previous machine age , yet still continue with their own customs , then maybe they have reasons which seem at least to them to be perfectly good and sufficient ? ’
12 They can say that if one takes belief in a God or gods as the criterion of a religion , then classical Buddhism can not be classified as a religion .
13 But Cronin and Fitch showed that if one replaces particles by antiparticles and takes the mirror image , but does not reverse the direction of time , then the universe does not behave the same .
14 It tells of a young offenders institution where five inmates have made a pact that if one commits suicide the other four can be freed ‘ for psychological reasons ’ .
15 It must also be remembered that if one swings Spain ( as one must ) to close the Bay of Biscay , then the main Hercynian trend of the Iberian Meseta becomes an Atlantic rather than a Mediterranean direction .
16 Until then , it had hardly occurred to me that if one had cancer , one might not know .
17 The thinking is that if one intends GBH , one must foresee GBH as a probable or possible outcome .
18 She took the view that if one gave women the chance to do current affairs they might produce current affairs ' programmes that were different from men 's .
19 They said that one could not solve unemployment on such a scale and that if one invested £1 million in one area , having taken it away from profitable Birmingham or wherever , it would leave us worse off in the end .
20 I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe .
21 Meanwhile , pro-choicers argue that if we restrict abortion to 18 weeks , then next year it will be 15 , then 12 .
22 Foucault describes how we are living in a world of endless insatiable chatter about sex which feeds on the illusion that if we question Sex enough it will reveal its Truths .
23 I can now reveal that if we remain second from bottom we will not be relegated .
24 I was making the point that if we judge concern for safety by the money spent on it , then by any measurement or definition , it is a sad indictment of the official concern expressed in the 1980s .
25 Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here .
26 The government is obviously trying to muddy the waters , they 're claiming that if we put clauses in the contracts , contract is to bid for the tenders , it 's competitive .
27 Neither of us spoke but we both knew that if we heard shots it meant that the operation had failed .
28 The trouble is that if we use 45% as the pass mark this year the child who came 80th will pass and so will all those above her .
29 Not for the Germans that weary British cry that if we spend money on training workers , someone will poach them .
30 I firmly believe that if we study animals as animals including their struggles with their internal and external environments , we can liberate them and ourselves from the obfuscation of terms such as pain and turn instead to definable values .
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