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

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1 My impression is that if you invent something , you tend to have a built-in arrogance .
2 But what you 've got to be very careful about is that if you go into a roundabout in that position and you get somebody in that position who is also going the same way and there 's a pinch point there , that 's the danger .
3 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 .
4 However , the other aspect is that if you go to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out .
5 It 's very clumsy language but I think what what they 're saying is that if you go to the tribunal and you get compensation , anything they pay you now is going to have to come off that .
6 you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared
7 The real secret is that if you use enough pattern it simply cancels itself out . ’
8 So the lesson is that if you use masking tape , or any other pressure sensitive tape , to hinge your works of art on paper , you should expect them to be showing yellow stains form the adhesive in four to five years time .
9 My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest .
10 Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ?
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 I prefer to think that Anne 's secret is that if you act like royalty , the chance is you 'll be treated like royalty
13 Now the the problem with the dealing with I I suspect with the major exceptions policy is that if you had it could you move fast enough in order to cope with that sort of animal appearing on your horizon which you wanted to capture .
14 A major advantage of a personal pension is that if you change jobs you can take it with you without penalty .
15 But the central argument on the industrial front is that if you bring a large number of extra jobs into an area where the unemployment is much below the national average , and much below the regional average , then you are going to bring people from the surrounding area in and many of those people we believe would far prefer to have found jobs nearer their existing homes .
16 So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those .
17 Yes but what you 're saying is that if you stay how you are now you 're not going to get enough orders .
18 The important thing is that if you get up at night to have a wee , you beware that you may feel a little bit lightheaded , so you get up slowly , sit on the edge of the bed , you stand up slowly , and when you 're happy you 're off , off you go .
19 but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually
20 And what you 're saying is that if you get to sufficiently low temperatures , you get a situation in which the resistance in the metal drops to zero .
21 And a what I would say is that if you pack carefully , and I advise people as to how to pack crockery You do n't put plates th s big plates on the bottom and then build up , because that puts a tremendous weight on the middle of the big plates at the bottom .
22 Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance .
23 So what we say is that if you took all of our products all our ads they would be somewhere in the region of six hundred pounds .
24 But this form of presentation , which needs to be quite formal , what other students have found is that if you dress formally actually it helps you to act formally , because this sort of presentation is going to be very different .
25 Smiling benignly at Seb , the gipsy leader said , ‘ One of the most important lessons to learn in this life is that if you wish to convince someone of anything you must first convince yourself .
26 The typical conjecture is that if you protect car driver from their mistakes you encourage bad driving .
27 ‘ What I do n't understand , Major Cowley , is that if you know my life is in danger , why do I have just one man ! ? ’
28 What it means is that if you know that somebody 's or if you know somebody 's sex then you 've got a better than chance bet at guessing whether they smoke or not .
29 My only reservation for new readers is that if you 've not seen John Bitumen 's wall of hate live , looking every bit like Mussolini with a hangover , the sincerity of the sarcasm and the heartfelt cynicism of the material may not be fully appreciated .
30 Right , right but the two's company and three 's a crowd idea is that if you 've got er two people , they , they may have er some libidinal interest in each other and they may have a couple , but a third person is , is just a complication .
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