Example sentences of "if [adj] is the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that is the way they want it we will just talk to City . ’ |
| 2 | Figure 3.6 Goslings will ‘ imprint ’ on a human foster-parent if that is the individual they see after hatching . |
| 3 | If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav . |
| 4 | If that is the description of regional government , yes , but the hon. Gentleman has highlighted the negative part and , unfortunately , that thinking is prevalent among Conservative Members . |
| 5 | If that is the case , then it is possible that he also thought that the synagogue ritual , as well as the direction of their commercial life and benefactions should have been handled differently . |
| 6 | Well if that is the case , then this is just another way of expressing the holism of the mental . |
| 7 | If that is the case with ex-peasants , these ‘ reactions from experience ’ for women from an urban background , say from Kenya , are different . |
| 8 | If that is the case , I 'll talk to him the same way . |
| 9 | If that is the case , then Lowestoft is undoubtedly the Blair Peach of coastal resorts . |
| 10 | ‘ If that is the case , we would wish to pass those savings back to the school . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't have to have a new baby to need someone to talk to and if that is the case , I can still find you a sympathetic ear . |
| 12 | If that is the case , in the short run the education system may have difficulty in servicing this new demand . |
| 13 | ‘ And if that is the case for exit polls , it may also have been the case for the campaign polls , ’ he writes . |
| 14 | If that is the case then you have real problems . |
| 15 | If that is the case , and she becomes upset , you could be very tempted to drop the whole issue , feeling that it is just ‘ not worth the candle ’ . |
| 16 | If that is the case , then it is possible to draw a comparison between Gandhi 's teaching and the teaching of such Western thinkers as Schleiermacher and Tillich . |
| 17 | ‘ If that is the case then I shall be contacting my advisers . |
| 18 | If that is the case , you will find that reproducing this Four Seasons design will at least give you the chance to use four different colour themes and to create four little pictures within one frame . |
| 19 | If that is the case , the weights would rise by 10lb leaving King 's Fountain at the head of the handicap . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a very sad trend if that is the case . ’ |
| 21 | If that is the case it leads , of course , to even more mysteries . |
| 22 | Sir John said placidly : ‘ If that is the case — that he knows something we do n't — I have little doubt that he 'll tell us in the fullness of time . ’ |
| 23 | If that is the case then I think the capacity of both Europeans and Americans to ‘ get it ’ is being underestimated . |
| 24 | Mr Goldin 's enthusiasm for a smaller , cheaper station may have saved the project from outright cancellation ; if that is the case , he has staked his reputation ( as well as a lot of public money ) on the outcome . |
| 25 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 26 | Sun wo n't say if that is the case , or whether the Viking has actually hit the 50MHz mark yet . |
| 27 | If that is the case , then the cohabitation rule is unavoidable . |
| 28 | We have heard something today of how West Belfast is a marginalised area in terms of employment and training , and if that is the case , then disabled people lie on the margin of the margins . |
| 29 | 6Have the courage to admit you and your Company have " boobed " if that is the case . |
| 30 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |