Example sentences of "[that] if [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice . |
| 2 | Let me advise Council now , that if they proceed down this primrose path any further then it becomes a resignation issue for me and , I suspect , many others who can not believe this farrago . |
| 3 | Most behaviour problems are triggered by situations where children have learned that if they try hard enough they can get their own way ( Bijou and Baer 1976 ) . |
| 4 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 5 | You 'll need to get agreement from everyone that if they end up in the minority they will bide by the majority decision . |
| 6 | Our main concern is that if they take away one of our acute services it will have a domino effect on the rest |
| 7 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 10 | If Englishmen in America were to push on to the west , it was fairly predictable that there would be clashes with the thinly scattered Indian population , and it was quite certain that if they went far enough either west or north they would meet the French . |
| 11 | But they 're worried that if they turn down the property they may not get another . |
| 12 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 13 | This includes a lower bed , so that if they fall out they should not hurt themselves . |
| 14 | But bear in mind that if they hear too many bad reports , they 'll disrupt the way I run this prison . |
| 15 | Taking the prince by the hand , she continued , ‘ Lo , here is this gentleman whom I doubt not would be safely kept by me , if I were permitted ; and well as I know there be some deadly enemies to my blood , that if they knew where any lay in their own bodies , they would let it out if they could ! ’ |
| 16 | I think that if they had just local lads to contend with there would be no problems . |
| 17 | Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us . |
| 18 | She says that if they had n't been woken they would both be dead . |
| 19 | He said that if they had not gained the upper hand then the old Völkisch parties would certainly have picked a fight with Poland . |
| 20 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This stressed-out poor performer is motivated by the fear that he or she is highly disposable , and that if they ease up on their workload the axe will fall . |
| 23 | Observing a heated argument among the players over a game of cards , Chapman thought that if they put as much consideration and earnestness into their football , their game could only improve . |
| 24 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 25 | For generations prior to this calamity the custodians and promoters of Yahweh — that is , the now canonized Prophets of Israel — had been warning the people that if they did not abandon their syncretistic ways , the wrath of the one true God would descend upon them . |
| 26 | At least they did so until the local priest warned them that if they did not stop , he 'd say a prayer that would make the dead rise from their graves and walk the length and breadth of the islands . |
| 27 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 28 | Some older workers feared that if they did not accept ‘ voluntary ’ redundancy they would not receive any redundancy pay . |
| 29 | He remarked that if they did not exist he and many others in his position would have to invent them ! |
| 30 | He told the assembly 's members that if they did not vote down the existing chief minister , a supporter of Mr Sharif 's , and put him in the post instead , the president would dissolve the assembly and they would all lose their jobs . |