Example sentences of "[be] that if it " in BNC.

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1 yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void
2 The first reason is that if it is meaningful , it briefly diverts the opponent 's attention away from what follows .
3 ‘ Our understanding is that if it does go to court , the hearing will be next year . ’
4 But the difficulty is great , and the greatest danger is that if it is not well performed the music can seem banal .
5 At Sherborne , the philosophy is that if it is a team trip then the whole team must be able to go .
6 All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will …
7 The point to make here is that if it is good enough for the courts to judge a publication as a whole then it would be perverse of a librarian to do otherwise in book selection .
8 The commonest ( although still rare ) type of statement is that if it appears that a Bill has passed both Houses and received the Royal Assent , no court of justice can inquire into the mode in which it was introduced into Parliament , nor into what was done previous to its introduction , nor what passed in Parliament during its progress in its various stages through Parliament ( see , e.g. , Lee v Bude & Torrington Junction Railway Co ( 1871 ) LR 6 CP 577 ; Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway Co v Wauchope ( 1842 ) 8 C1 & F 710 ) .
9 Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion .
10 Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster .
11 The trouble with this is that if it did n't work it might be because the conditions and catalysts are wrong .
12 The implication of this for theology is that if it is really theology , it can only take place as God conveys his own Word to us and enables us to hear it ; but the Word itself always remains his and not ours .
13 The only thing is that if it 's fun anywhere , it 's fun out here .
14 The first is that if it were false , a would still believe it ; we have dealt with this already by the addition of clause 3 .
15 The difficulty , for the commission , is that if it abandoned the present formula , it would face exactly the same problems as national governments , seeking to foster advanced technology but fearful of the temptation of ‘ backing winners ’ .
16 What matters for this purpose is that if it escapes it is likely to do mischief and this is the meaning to be given to ‘ dangerous thing ’ in this context .
17 The tax advantage is that if it 's A B Cs by deduction you get tax relief , if it 's by lump sum you do n't .
18 The answer , of course , is that if it were otherwise , there would not be anyone to ask the question .
19 The most simplistic answer to critics of the lobby is that if it did not exist , politicians and journalists would have to invent it .
20 The result is that if it was some lesser employee of the company ( e.g. a mere store manager or area manager ) who put out the offending brochure or advertisement , it may be difficult to get a conviction .
21 Now er that 's that generates two of the three documents that the cheque and er the important thing er about the cheque of course is that if it 's two signatories , and a lot of companies of course require that , we need two signatories on the banker 's order .
22 Er M My Lords , there are two things , one is that if it 's an R E specialists of course it will be their primary subject .
23 ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right .
24 In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place .
25 What the package meant for France , therefore , was that if it wanted an agriculture settlement , it would have to accept an increase in the supranational characteristics of the EEC .
26 Wickham 's initial feeling was that if it were true the only surprising thing was that Barron had not flown away sooner .
27 The establishment 's boast was that if it was n't on the menu , then you could take your pick for free .
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