Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | But Knowles 's criticisms of Labov 's methods lose much of their cogency if we remember that Labov was not attempting to provide an accurate , detailed and variation-sensitive description of an urban dialect . |
| 62 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 63 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |
| 64 | If we assume that ducks peek randomly , briefly and independently of each other then the probability of the flock detecting a randomly attacking cat is given by P = 1 — e where n is the flock size . |
| 65 | If we assume that accountants play a passive role in this , namely that they provide only what is expressly requested , then we build our accounting theory on that . |
| 66 | However , if we assume that accountants also have an educational role , we might add to our definitions , to include potential users and potential users ' needs . |
| 67 | In Fig. 9–5 B will find himself with income and if we assume that A for whatever reason is altruistic towards B , then there exists a demand by A for , income for , which is normally marginally irrelevant . |
| 68 | If we assume that bleomycin cuts best in regions of alternating purine and pyrimidine by virtue of their structure , then this explains why GpT and GpC are cut better than GpA and GpG , and also explains why a 5'-pyrimidine increases the rate of cleavage at these sites . |
| 69 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 70 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 71 | We only give out names if we know that relatives and next of kin have been informed . |
| 72 | If we maintain that cc was a causal circumstance for & , we are maintaining the conditionals of which we know , notably that if cc occurred , then even if certain things of a general class had also occurred , e would still have occurred . |
| 73 | If we assumed that Wetherby came across him unexpectedly on the premises , and turned away to give the alarm , how does that fit with the cheese and the bloodstains ? |
| 74 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 75 | If we sense that academics could improve the quality of their teaching — if , for example , we find that there is a high rate of students failing to complete their courses — the attention of the academics concerned should be directed to their teaching rather than their research activity . |
| 76 | It is was really erm the question of how many other P P Gs could be taken as read er if we decide that P P G seven could just be left on its own and not included in the structure plan . |
| 77 | And , if we say that G = the rate of growth of the total social product W , then on the assumption of an unchanged organic composition of capital we find that : . |
| 78 | If we say that dinosaurs grew large because they were in pursuit of the advantage of heat conservation , we are not implying that species engineered their own destiny , with the effect predetermining the cause . |
| 79 | If we say that children can not receive communion , we 'll als als ought also to s ask question about whether infants should be baptised . |
| 80 | If we accept that Hitler was regarded by most if not all as the embodiment of the Party , it would seem that , for most new recruits to the Nazi Movement during the rise to power , his own undoubted extreme anti-Semitism formed a secondary rather than primary component of his image and appeal . |
| 81 | If we accept that mistakes in sentencing can be made and accept that sentencing is a matter of considerable interest , importance and relevance to society , and accept that the prosecution represents society , then it is simply monstrous that an appeal does not lie at its hands . |
| 82 | If we agree that customers are buying the benefits of a product , then equally organizations are selling the benefits of that product . |
| 83 | If we suppose that Nietzsche did feel committed to the plan 's extra-tragic Greek aspects ( ethics , politics and the rest ) , we must make that supposition without much in the way of supporting evidence . |
| 84 | If we want that Foxbat , we have to have it before the Chinks blow the last one out of the sky . |
| 85 | ‘ Every match for us now has significance if we want that UEFA place , ’ said Joe Jordan . |
| 86 | But even if we discover that vineyards vanished from south east England at a time when the climate was getting colder , we still do not know for sure why they disappeared . |
| 87 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |
| 88 | If we find that industries are now disappearing fairly rapidly , it is also worth realizing that they arrived on the landscape quite suddenly . |
| 89 | If we find that magnets attached to cats will upset their ability to find their way home , then we are beginning , very dimly , to understand the amazing homing abilities that the animals have evolved over a long period of time . |
| 90 | If we find that cats are sensitive to very small vibrations or changes in the static electricity of their environment , then we might come to understand how they can predict earthquakes . |