Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 2 | One source of this theory , to continue in terms of the example , is the truth that if it were raining , more other things would be different than that the balcony was wet . |
| 3 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 4 | There remains only the applicant 's general argument that since it was acknowledged that the publicity of an adverse verdict in the Barclays ( Asia ) trial might prejudice his defence of the B.M.F.L. charges , the obvious course was to eliminate the risk by reversing the order of trials . |
| 5 | First , it seems less reliable , in the sense that whether it is offered depends very much upon personal circumstances and personal liking , at least for the majority white community . |
| 6 | In this table , p(l) is the probability that if it is raining today ( time t ) it will be raining tomorrow ( time t + 1 ) , while p(2) is the probability that if it is raining today it will be dry tomorrow . |
| 7 | In this table , p(l) is the probability that if it is raining today ( time t ) it will be raining tomorrow ( time t + 1 ) , while p(2) is the probability that if it is raining today it will be dry tomorrow . |
| 8 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
| 9 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
| 10 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
| 11 | So you tend to gradually come round to the view that unless it 's causing very bad visual pollution , or you 've had a run of complaints about it , then you tend not to take a stat . ’ |
| 12 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 13 | Well , there again , yes , with reservations because if it comes to the fact that if it 's going to save human lives , yes . |