Example sentences of "be that if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more I read about Opposition policy the more convinced I am that if they were in government there would be no food left to eat in this country . |
| 2 | In which case , since Copenhagen is n't the biggest capital in Europe , the chances are that if we look in the right places we 'll find them sooner or later ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Grout , but the rules are that if you do then you have to " |
| 7 | " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice . |
| 11 | Erm but our summary really would be that if one followed the County Councils proposals , this county would end up with a severe housing shortage . |
| 12 | The fear must be that if we leave the issue unresolved then there will be other health disputes in the future and , just as certainly , the people who suffer will again be the patients . |
| 13 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 14 | Another conclusion must be that if we as teachers are relative experts in our own subjects , and tend to read textbooks in our own subject area with the same skills as the Cornell students , then we may be insensitive to inadequacies in those textbooks . |
| 15 | Kripke therefore sees the conclusion of the argument to be that if we are to find a ground for our belief that there is an objectively correct method of continuing the series , we must look beyond the individual to the community of rule-followers . |
| 16 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 17 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 18 | His logic seems to be that if he does n't give you any money , he can be sure you 're staying with him because you love him , and not because of his earning power . |
| 19 | Nothing is known of Bishop Æthelric 's connections , but it could be that if he had relatives they were among Cnut 's supporters , or that as an individual he was prepared to back the king , for he is said to have enjoyed the royal favour . |
| 20 | It may be that if he had been actively working for Balston Ltd his activities might have been in breach of his implied duty of fidelity . |
| 21 | The fear must be that if your application does n't use the advanced features of Windows , programs that do will be the better sellers . |
| 22 | The answer to the second question must surely be that if there is a trust at all ( which is the first question ) , then because of the word omnia it is a trust of everything Pamphilus receives . |
| 23 | It may be that if there is an overseas trust with X in the United Kingdom having a life interest therein and with the trust fund comprising UK source bank deposits ( for instance ) that the preceding year basis will apply ( with regard to the assessments made on X ) although if further monies are put into the trust ( and these are similarly put on deposit with the UK bank ) the income arising from the additional monies will be assessed on an actual basis in the early years as comprising income arising from a fresh addition to the source within TA 1988 , s66(3) . |
| 24 | my Lord I , I suppose the answer to that is yes , it could be on the facts , it could be that if there was in a free market then they 'd be all sorts of varieties of clause whereby the name and kept the agent funds , erm maybe |
| 25 | It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |