Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [conj] if we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 2 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 3 | The plan is that if we have to leave , and we 're still not sure , it will only be for a while . |
| 4 | I think the argument is that if we call the nature of the experience ‘ R ’ , and if we concede the materialist claim that R is a brain state , then in knowing the brain state the blind scientist knows R , though not what R is like . |
| 5 | I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The theory is that if we set the lead the passengers will overcome their inhibitions and join in , ’ Niall added . |
| 8 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
| 9 | Er the third thing is that if we do accept that it should be a general practice in our church , the the parents of the children , who are within our church family , need to be told . |
| 10 | Well I think you have a look at what they 're doing , the only thing is if if we say they need another bloke , if you 're gon na do that next week , then you 've got ta plan for that before next week . |
| 11 | The stark reality is that if we do n't start winning games , we 'll go down . |
| 12 | The answer is that if we find the present state of affairs unsatisfactory , we have an obligation to try to come up with something better . |
| 13 | As I have said before , my worry is that if we recognise the two republics that the hon. Gentleman mentions , we may force the pace and create an explosion in Kosovo , Bosnia and Macedonia , where there are tensions and possibilities of bloodshed and civil war that go beyond anything that we have seen even in Croatia . |
| 14 | One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities . |
| 15 | The idea is that if we do n't collect any money for you , we do n't get paid . |
| 16 | A separate dimension of the social enterprise perspective is that if we view the company as a public or social body , albeit under private control , then its directors and managers should be held to requirements of disclosure and standards of ethical conduct appropriate to those carrying out public functions . |
| 17 | For the implication of his theory of power is that if we break out of the regime of sexuality then power will play through a new series of discourses . |
| 18 | My impression is that if we remain quiet this feeling will shortly disappear . ’ |