Example sentences of "that [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially in the years following abolition most antislavery reformers , though James Stephen was a notable exception , assumed that little if any government intervention was required in West Indian affairs to bring about improvements in slavery ; the self-interest of the planters would be sufficient . |
| 2 | The pursuit of the alternatives can be inhibited by the view that little if anything can be achieved within present resource limits . |
| 3 | In addition , we know that most if not all of the public sector is subject to administrative rather than market forces and has its own peculiar system of industrial relations . |
| 4 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 5 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 6 | I have nothing against the monarchy , in principle , erm I think that perhaps if we had our own parliament in Scotland and had the Queen as a head of state , as do Australia , Canada , and all the commonwealth countries , that would be fine . |
| 7 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 8 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 9 | Thus it is likely that no more than 1 or 2 per cent of the total budget would really be available for new projects and plans — and even that only if pupil numbers were retained and no other emergencies developed in any particular year . |
| 10 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 11 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 12 | Parkin asserts that only if women see themselves in non-family terms is stratification by gender meaningful , but he presents no evidence as to what women actually feel in relation to their family or class position . |
| 13 | Similarly when told that only if he returned all his tournament winnings would he get to heaven William replied in exasperation that it was impossible . |
| 14 | It should be initiated and managed by teachers inside the schools on the assumption that only if schools and teachers retain control of the evaluation process will they be committed to the implementation of any recommendations for action that arise . |
| 15 | On Dec. 15 , 1989 , Heng Samrin as the KPRP central committee general secretary warned that " [ Cambodia ] must have a unanimous understanding that only if our internal situation is firm and our superior position on the battlefield is firm , will our diplomatic struggle be effective " . |
| 16 | Doubt can play a very useful role in resisting credulity and naivety , but to argue that only if you doubt can you arrive at the truth ( a position of scepticism ) is to disregard the question of what is to be known . |
| 17 | But that would seem to imply that only if a rich peasant rents out more land than he owns and works either by himself or hired labour , he will be able to keep that all . |
| 18 | i in the sense that so if you come out public with this you are , you are breaking the United Front and you would be seen to break the United Front . |
| 19 | So I said Bill we 'll tape that so if there 's owt on |
| 20 | I mean obviously the reality is that obviously if you buy a mechanical breakdown insurance from a dealer and the dealer goes into liquidation then obviously that does n't affect the policy because the policy will still be handled by a company such as ours , and there are a number of companies obviously . |
| 21 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 22 | But probably the key one here is the belief that somehow if we go on holiday , we 're gon na come back totally refreshed . |
| 23 | Tt yeah yeah erm yeah I mean it 's interesting when you come to attitudes to parenthood erm I think that 's quite an important issue because it does tap into a whole range of things about erm you know kind of er suspicions that somehow if gay or lesbian people raise children then the children 'll either be , you know , sort of corrupted or converted themselves |
| 24 | The police will know that soon if they do n't already . |
| 25 | Explain that away if you can . ’ |
| 26 | got ta recognize when you get to a certain stage that like if you drink any more you 're gon na be ill . |
| 27 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 28 | This means that even if the opponent throws a punch , you will have drawn back and out of range . |
| 29 | It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . |
| 30 | Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face . |