Example sentences of "[be] that if " in BNC.

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1 The more I read about Opposition policy the more convinced I am that if they were in government there would be no food left to eat in this country .
2 But all the signs are that if Britain still withholds its endorsement , the other 11 will conclude an agreement among themselves outside the formal EC framework .
3 The chances are that if you are told a nasty tale about the sexual misdemeanours of a headmaster , a vicar , a scout leader , a member of Parliament , a public performer or a novelist then you will assume it to be the truth .
4 The facts are that if you propose an idea , four times out of ten someone will take issue with it by pointing out snags and difficulties ( see Difficulty stating on page 52 ) .
5 The IRB rules are that if you have a positive drug test you should be banned from the game for two years ’ — JOHN MAYHEW ( NZRFU doctor for the tour to Australia and South Africa ) on the quashing of drugs sentences on South Africans Balie Swart and Elandre van den Bergh .
6 Indeed , the odds are that if the pictures are looking good , the sound will also be recording satisfactorily and will at least be representative of the atmosphere at the particular location .
7 The trading implications of these partial derivatives are that if the spot price or the risk-free interest rate is expected to rise , F - S grows bigger ( that is , the basis weakens ) and , if F > S , the basis will widen ; while if dividends are expected to rise , F - S gets smaller ( the basis strengthens ) and , if F > S , the basis will narrow .
8 Mr Grout , but the rules are that if you do then you have to "
9 " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit .
10 In which case , since Copenhagen is n't the biggest capital in Europe , the chances are that if we look in the right places we 'll find them sooner or later ! ’
11 It 's not bad , we 're saying that the rules here are that if you 're caught dealing you 're gon na be suspended but
12 I suppose one of the key factors of my whole industrial career has been that if an opportunity comes up , I grab it .
13 Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice .
14 The initial reaction has been that if the Chancellor is only taking out a token sum in higher tax , then the scope for further cuts in interest rates has been severely diminished , and fixed-rate gilt-edged stocks were marked sharply lower .
15 But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy , you 'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back .
16 His logic seems to be that if he does n't give you any money , he can be sure you 're staying with him because you love him , and not because of his earning power .
17 The fear must be that if we leave the issue unresolved then there will be other health disputes in the future and , just as certainly , the people who suffer will again be the patients .
18 The idea seems to be that if priests are given a ‘ properly informed sexual education ’ this will prevent their ‘ love of chastity ’ being displaced by the temptations of the flesh , but I see no reason why it should have this effect .
19 The eminently more favourable position would be that if one partner engages in sexual conduct with another outside their relationship which the other partner finds intolerable , then this may be cited as evidence that the marriage has broken down .
20 It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow .
21 The answer to the second question must surely be that if there is a trust at all ( which is the first question ) , then because of the word omnia it is a trust of everything Pamphilus receives .
22 The general approach , however , would be that if the warranty or indemnity was in all other respects identical to that of other vendors , the para 9(3) ( a ) , Sch 5 , TCGA 1992 exception would be regarded as satisfied .
23 A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state .
24 My personal view tended to be that if you approached Mains in a straightforward way and asked the straight question then you got the straight and honest answer .
25 The government position appears to be that if teacher trainers spend enough time in schools , and if student teachers spend enough time alongside experienced ones and their newly expert trainers , the requisite skills will hopefully be acquired by some kind of osmosis .
26 Another conclusion must be that if we as teachers are relative experts in our own subjects , and tend to read textbooks in our own subject area with the same skills as the Cornell students , then we may be insensitive to inadequacies in those textbooks .
27 Where , why might it be that if , if we 're actually talking about this mutation and things have changed it ?
28 The conclusion seems to be that if I recognize that I have once wrongly claimed to know that p , then I can not ever claim to know that p unless I can show a relevant difference between the two cases .
29 Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers .
30 The assumption in the third comment may be that if a change occurs and you do n't see it happen , then it must happen when you are not there .
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