Example sentences of "be [conj] if [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear is that if defined , legal experts will exploit loopholes which , although within the letter of the law , are outwith its spirit . |
| 2 | One argument is that if building the CIT involves cutting into present research programmes then it may be preferable to run the present experiments for longer . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The thesis underlying our editorial is that if purchasing authorities are to base their activities on meeting epidemiologically defined need they should use epidemiological principles . |
| 5 | and the reason for that was because if left in it might mislead a prospective purchaser |