Example sentences of "if this is so " in BNC.

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31 But if this is so , not only is the case against holism once more put in doubt , the case for supposing that it can ever be established in such an a priori fashion is threatened at the same time .
32 If this is so then increasing the counselling skills of general practitioners may be preferable to widening the primary health care team .
33 If this is so , Admiral Howe 's advisers say , foreign judges will be brought in .
34 If this is so , then among species with long forked tails , sexual dimorphism in tail length should increase with fork depth .
35 It is sometimes supposed that if this is so , there can be no rationality in ethics .
36 If this is so , there must be a facility for holding portions of text in parallel on screen , for altering either of them in any way desired , and for moving all or part out of one text and into the other .
37 If this is so , then these facilities are urgently needed , because it is intended to produce the revised OED in serial form , which means that forward cross-references could be rendered incorrect by revisions undertaken after the fascicles in which the cross-references appear had been published .
38 The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made .
39 If this is so , sensible judicial interpretation might enable s.61 to provide an effective civil remedy and a significant deterrent for insider dealing .
40 If this is so :
41 If this is so , how do societies come to be organised in the way they are ?
42 If this is so , it should follow that the more gratifying a mother 's physical-care practices are , the greater should be the child 's developing attachment to her .
43 But even if this is so , the Marian Council was distinctly different from the small executive and advisory board of the years 1540–1547 .
44 If this is so then it was probably less of a proletarian organization than its principal rival , the Nationalist Party , or , in its fuller title , the Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang .
45 You appear to have made up your mind about sex and if this is so , then it 's right and responsible to use contraception .
46 If this is so , then any attempts to conjure up a single popular will can only be factitious , and dangerous to the rights of individuals and groups within society : hence , in part , the suspicion with which mass political movements are viewed from within this perspective .
47 If this is so , the smell was not an effect .
48 If this is so , the solicitor may seek an extension from the Legal Aid Board , who , if satisfied that there is a need to spend further money , will authorize further expenditure .
49 And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort .
50 If this is so , Quine is wrong to say that one can not be an empiricist in one 's theory of meaning unless one accepts his brand of verificationism , centred on MP .
51 But if this is so , why is the dichotomy such a familiar one in this country , and even more firmly entrenched on the continent ?
52 If this is so , these varieties must incorporate within themselves sets of recurrent and distinctive norms , through which they can be characterized , but which do not usually coincide with the norms of the standard language .
53 These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change .
54 If this is so , it is worth looking at professional development a little more closely .
55 If this is so , then southern , one-party States with large black populations should be even lower welfare spenders than others where the electoral need to spend is weak , although statistically it is hard to separate out this effect because all of the extremely safe Democratic States are relatively poor , have large black populations and are in the South ( Johnston , 1983b ) .
56 If this is so , identically placed lesions at the two sides will not necessarily have equivalent effects , even though each intact hemisphere may be equally as capable as its fellow of subserving a given function .
57 If this is so , and if there is a sighting or acuity difference between a subject 's left and right eyes , then either the left or the right nasal pathway may be favoured accordingly .
58 If this is so , you are mistaken .
59 If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim .
60 If this is so , the legal model of the company as so far described needs to be rejected in favour of one which does not explain the rules of company law exclusively in terms of the rights of owners , but which instead regards members and employees as joint stakeholders , each with legitimate demands that the company be run for their benefit .
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