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

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 Mr Grout , but the rules are that if you do then you have to "
5 " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit .
6 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
7 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 .
8 It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow .
9 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 .
10 ‘ My advice to them would be that if you ca n't win as an amateur , you wo n't do it as a pro , ’ he said .
11 My guess would be that if you were to place it over the letter and shuffle it about a bit , some sort of pattern might well emerge .
12 It may well be that if you set the penalties so high , and if you can have a hundred per cent detection , then there may well be a deterrent element in these crimes , but basically the law is clearing up a mess , and the mess has occurred , and then the law comes along and does the best it can .
13 The problem with the AIDS vaccine might be that if you have a vaccine which would be able to suppress a particular virus strain er which would induce immunity against a particular virus strain , then necessarily you do not have a vaccine which can provide immunity against another virus strain .
14 The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well .
15 The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective .
16 Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined .
17 I suppose the most recent lesson is that if you merge with a company you do n't have the same opportunities for changing its culture as you do if it 's a take-over .
18 My impression is that if you invent something , you tend to have a built-in arrogance .
19 But the trouble with buying clothes , he finds , is that if you do it alone ( he 's single ) , you can get a bit blinkered .
20 The corollary of this is that if you absolutely love certain items like cake or chips , do not ban them from your life for ever , not even for a week .
21 The good news is that if you have already had the vaccine , you do n't need a booster .
22 The second thing to consider is that if you are eating the amount you say , then this may be too much .
23 N. No , the way I see it is that if you enter a competition you get at least two clear runs with no-one snaking you .
24 You then put another layer of filters on , which is that if you have got to choose , you choose content areas which are very important to Britain , or you choose content areas which the camera can communicate best .
25 But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment .
26 Yet such matters may be relevant in some cases ; one particular example is that if you are registered as disabled , you are entitled to special consideration .
27 ‘ So you see , children , the moral of the story is that if you are good then God will be pleased … ’
28 Another important implication of behavioural rights such as these , is that if you believe in your own rights then , to be consistent , you must also believe that other people enjoy the same rights .
29 If your husband retires on a Friday , it is unrealistic to think that your great new life together will take off with a flourish the following Monday ; but the good news is that if you can think in terms of allowing yourselves time to renegotiate the way you live together , the chances are that you will both have adjusted to the new situation within about two years .
30 The typical conjecture is that if you protect car driver from their mistakes you encourage bad driving .
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