Example sentences of "if [pron] believe that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you believe that life is full of joy , then you feel happy and excited when the post arrives or the phone rings , rather than feeling fearful or gloomy . |
| 2 | If you believe that discrimination has occurred against yourself , a colleague or a member of the public , you are responsible for reporting this at once to your manager or personnel section . |
| 3 | These views depend on political values and preferences which we are not going to explore here , but clearly if you believe that society as a whole will gain by children from all income groups being educated together , or children from a local community or religious group being educated together , you will prefer a system of finance that favours such provision . |
| 4 | ‘ So if you believe that share prices look dangerously high after three or four years , you can decide to lock in to the rate you have picked . |
| 5 | If you believe that women , and not planners , should be the people to decide on the size of families they have , then this is the book for you . |
| 6 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 7 | ‘ If you believe that story you will believe anything . |
| 8 | If you believe that racism is essentially a product of economic or political structures , then you will concentrate all your efforts on trying to change these . |
| 9 | If you believe that abortion is wrong for any reason whatsoever then there is no justification for the termination of a pregnancy on the grounds of identified handicap . |
| 10 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 11 | If we believe that Ireland can be purged of the Dark Lords and the Wolfline reinstated , then we will join with you . ’ |
| 12 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 13 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 14 | If we believe that expectations about Y t are formed rationally then we must also believe that the actual value of Y t diverges from the value that people expect , by a random error which we label v t . |
| 15 | If we believe that humans have evolved , we are liable to assume that our subjective experiences are shared by other animals . |