Example sentences of "[that] if [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think for a lot of people , yes , it does , and though the pile of bricks obviously comes under Art with a capital A , crafts perhaps has not suffered quite as much , but I think there is the feeling amongst people that if they get a pot which is , shall we say non-function and wo n't pour , then is it art or craft ? |
| 2 | He is a good cook , believing that it is important for men to learn to cook so that if they marry a woman not too well versed in the culinary arts , they will still survive ! |
| 3 | So we can now advise people that if they take a bird in that 's been injured by a cat , they give it a shot of antibiotics — great , cures the septicaemia . |
| 4 | They have also felt that if they make a payment at all , that they 're fully meeting their obligation , whatever the level of that payment . |
| 5 | Many parents find that if they put a pudding or sweets in front of the child as an incentive the child is likely to refuse to eat and just demand the reward . |
| 6 | I do n't think it would be an adequate response from our Institute to say to its members that if they wanted a qualification in tax , they should go and join another body . |
| 7 | But the main reason is that if they have a crash , it is far easier to treat a wound with no superficial hair and the risk of infection is lessened . |
| 8 | And the people that write for the Sun know that the readers of the Sun will read that if they have a headline like that . |
| 9 | But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge . |
| 10 | Therefore , we adopted a raffle-ticket approach and tried a variety of pure chemicals , just guessing which to choose , on the grounds that if one holds a raffle ticket one 's chance of winning may be small but at least it is finite , and greater than zero . |
| 11 | The main problem is that if one has a licensing arrangement with a company in a politically sensitive area then , for one reason or another , royalties due might not be paid . |
| 12 | The idea was , quite simply , that a person or property should be protected ; so that if one commended a slave or a piece of property no transfer of ownership was intended . |
| 13 | We can often go in on the basis that if somebody has a problem that they want to look at that , just as frequently somebody has an interest that they want to develop , to know more about . |
| 14 | In the end Dinah came to me , believing , as I did , that if we spent a night together her father would relent . |
| 15 | ‘ We started from scratch by saying that if we had a brand new game called rugby what would it be like ? |
| 16 | It is a commonplace observation that if we lose a night 's sleep we tend to sleep a bit longer on subsequent nights , as if to make up a " sleep debt " . |
| 17 | I want then , to go on to say that if we take a view , about fairness , and I think that that 's an important word that we , certainly from our side , want to use regularly and practice . |
| 18 | We were also aware that if we published a list of set texts their names would be engraved in stone , and the canon would be unchangeable , reflecting out-of-date literary and social opinions . |
| 19 | Now you know , having said that I accept that if we did a peak hour model and an off peak model we would have shown different effects . |
| 20 | The difference is , of course , that those policies have got to be tested if each individual case appropriateness and er I I do feel that if we have a blanket policy then we wo n't be able to test it . |
| 21 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 22 | ‘ As women we are forced to accept that if we have a relationship with a man , it will involve a lot of work : looking after him , putting his needs before ours . |
| 23 | The Jot 1.0 specification is designed to enable applications to share handwritten notes , sketches , signatures and other free-form data across the generality of computers from hand-held devices to mainframes , so that if someone scrawls a note and sends it over a modem , it will turn up at the other end as handwriting , regardless of the sending and receiving machines , provided only that they both implement Jot 1.0 . |
| 24 | Coaching also means insisting at housegroup level that if someone makes a commitment to the group and does n't live up to it that they say Sorry to the group about it . |
| 25 | What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free . |
| 26 | Section 15 of the 1968 Theft Act says that if you issue a cheque when you know you have no money in your bank you are committing a criminal offence . |
| 27 | ‘ In ancient times , my ancestors believed that if you told a lie while putting your hand into the mouth , it would bite off the hand . ’ |
| 28 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 29 | Now the effect is that if you make a decision from London , if you impose a decision from London , the people you impose that decision on are very very demoralised . |
| 30 | Remember that if you hire a builder with a large stetson hat and a six shooter you might very easily reach a situation where , ‘ The house ai n't big enough for both of you . ’ |