Example sentences of "[det] be [conj] if " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The counter-claim to this is that if your goods and services are competitive future trade will not be lost because you have a reasonable and commonsense approach to limiting credit orders to a certain size .
3 The trouble with this is that if it did n't work it might be because the conditions and catalysts are wrong .
4 Evidence of this is that if we attempt to justify them no obvious answer is forthcoming .
5 The real advantage of all this is that if your fingers are trained to type /FS in order to save a file , the same command will still work in 1-2-3 for Windows .
6 The reason for this is that if you put the female pupae in the tube before they hatch to the adult stage , you will ensure that females mate only with the type of male you put in the tube .
7 The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent .
8 The difficulty with this is that if Individuals-do not choose consciously to subvert democracy — as Mills has argued — why is it that the military and the large corporations as institutions have to dominate the political system and subvert liberal democracy ?
9 Another way of putting this is that if we impose the restriction that by adding X and Z together to form a single variable ( X + Z ) , and carry out the regression : if β 1 really is equal to β 2 in the process generating Y t then the estimates of β and β 1 from equation ( 3.20 ) , in a large sample , should not differ very much from the estimates from equation ( 3.19 ) .
10 The essence of this is that if the goods are identified and agreed upon and ready to be handed over , the parties are taken to have intended the buyer to become the owner immediately , i.e. at the very instant that the contract is made .
11 So the , the consequence of this is that if you concentrate on individuals rather than on er groups , you take a completely different view of sex .
12 You I infer from that you er s you saying that if the same thing this is this is that if the same thing were to occur again your approach would be and you 'd be more more of a strategist in the handling of it .
13 A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it .
14 This is because if there is a person on both wing-tips , neither may have a good grip .
15 This is because if the hutch becomes infested with maggots there is the possibility that the maggots will penetrate the young ferrets ' ears and vent , causing great distress .
16 This is because if the most likely candidate is not the correct one , this method will give an uncorrectable error which will be propagated if transitional probabilities are combined .
17 In addition , registration does not create a priority point in the sense that the chargee is guaranteed priority from the date of registration ; this is because if A registers have charge on 21 January he has no guarantee that the company has not created a charge prior to this which may be registered within 21 days and thus have priority .
18 This is because if it is not reserved as rent , the Stamp Office take the view that the application of the " contingency principle " means that stamp duty is payable on the full amount of VAT which may become payable over the whole term of the lease .
19 This is because if such proceedings are commenced in the High Court they are liable to be struck out under s 40(1) ( b ) of the 1984 Act ( see below ) .
20 This is because if the estimate of the liquidity position is incorrect it will cause large changes in market rates of interest , the undesirability and significance of which will soon be seen .
21 Another is that if resident farmers are to undertake the planting , management and felling of forests , surpluses accrue and are more likely to be reinvested locally .
22 This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure .
23 The outcome of this was that if finally recovery did actually start , no-one would believe them .
24 The thrust of this was that if the passenger liability suits went against Pan Am , the airline would seek to recover the cost of the compensation awards from the government on the grounds that the Flight 103 disaster had been due to the misconduct of government agencies .
25 This was because if the business did perform well the instrument took on equity features , when in these circumstances straight debt would have been the desired financing to maximise shareholder value .
26 The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts .
27 Only one thing is certain , and that is that if the employee is not consulted , and given an opportunity to state his case , an injustice may be done .
28 What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’
29 Now the r the reason for us doing that is that if they do accept it , they are duty bound as a council to write to Prime Minister , Prime Minister , direct , saying they support the declaration of intent .
30 Erm something we did omit , which we should not have done , earlier was to mention the fire escape scenario and that is that if you go out of this door , just the coffee table there 's a large marked fire exit .
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