Example sentences of "that if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall have more to say about occlusion a little later , but for now : grasping the fact of occlusion in the sense of grasping the fact that if something were removed then something behind it would be perceived because the something behind was there all along is an achievement of the central systems . |
| 2 | But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice . |
| 3 | There is therefore very much in Engels 's discussion of existing political organization which is still acceptable ; however , recent anthropological work makes it clear that if something like the notion of the gentile constitution is to be retained , the concept would have to be broadened to include a much greater variety of such systems than was , or could have been , envisaged by the founders of Marxism . |
| 4 | Many are sceptical about that finding , but Dr Dekel feels that if something similar , of equal statistical validity , could be found along another line of sight , the CDM model would become untenable . |
| 5 | ‘ This is a technology , ’ says the UK Genetics Forum , ‘ which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong , it ca n't be put right . |
| 6 | DO watch the screen while you type or give commands so that if something goes wrong you can correct it as soon as possible ( eg using Esc ape , U ndo ) |
| 7 | One of the mistakes we make is to imagine that if something is harmless or beneficial to us it must automatically be so to cats . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's also , particularly in the United States , this sense that if something is on the body , it is less important than something that is on the wall ’ , says Martin . |
| 9 | Those that like the Macintosh System love it : those that do n't like it detest the idea of that mass of graphical software between them and their applications , between them and the processor : like the nervous flyer , they hate the feeling that they are not in control , that if something goes wrong , there is absolutely nothing they can do to save themselves . |
| 10 | Laws of the fundamental kind thus are general propositions to the effect that if something is the case , then no matter an alteration in Certain logically consistent concomitants , something else is also the case . |
| 11 | But er I mean we We 've spoken about it before , on the platform , and things like that , that I mean everybody knows the score that if something happens if you 're if you 're sleeping you 've not got a an excellent chance , put it like that , I mean you er I mean nobody ever expected anything like what happened on piper to happen any on that scale . |
| 12 | Scientists believe that if something is not done about this problem , glacial ice will melt raising the level of the sea and flooding vast areas of low-lying land . |
| 13 | Traditionally , people tend to equate technology with expense — the idea that if something is electronically controlled or operated using a computer system , then it will inevitably be more costly . |
| 14 | Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case . |
| 15 | So that if something breaks it 's going to be that weak old rope , not |
| 16 | To subsidize the various courses we run , to help the display team towards expenses and in general to be able to function as a society knowing that if something arises we can meet the cost without going bust ! |
| 17 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ I know in my heart that if everything — the bike , the team , and me — are 100 per cent , I know we 'll win it . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , there are delays in discharge at the moment , often caused by silly things like a lack of commodes , and the nurses worry that if everything has to be in place before discharge then there will be more delays . |
| 20 | In general , the complications introduced by having to predict changes both of system and of behaviour are so great that most forecasters assume that the system will not change ( except by evolution ) and claim that if everything is going to change there is not much point in having a forecast anyway because there will no longer be an organisation to act upon it . |
| 21 | Answer me that if ye can , Father Devlin . ’ |
| 22 | It 's just — well , it 's just that if whatever killed Paula was a software virus rather than an accident , then someone would have had to infect the suitbrain . |
| 23 | After talking to various people it occurred to me that if everyone in this island planted a tree in their lifetime we would achieve something , not least by helping to absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . |
| 24 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 25 | They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year . |
| 26 | The rather shy students must be encouraged to shout the launching orders clearly and loudly , so that if they need to shout ‘ stop ’ , they do not hesitate because they are reluctant to raise their voice . |
| 27 | She sometimes thought that if they went somewhere hot and beachy as most people did — the Seychelles , the Maldives , the Caribbean — they would spend the whole day swimming or sunbathing . |
| 28 | Nobody 's listening but I insist : ‘ This fairness of skin obliges them to shield themselves so that if they do catch the sun they avoid the obvious danger of peeling . |
| 29 | Knowing that if they break our will , they win . |
| 30 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |