Example sentences of "that if you [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust .
2 But she had read that if you turn and f ace the nameless fear , just once , you never have that dream again .
3 To perform this effectively you should hold down each full chord voicing wherever possible , so that if you pick any strings accidentally the notes that sound will still be okay !
4 But the electric eel has another set of batteries that produce not steady low-voltage diction-finding transmissions but sudden massive shocks so strong that if you pick up such a fish without the insulation of rubber gloves and boots , it can throw you flat on your back .
5 Sterland is a mystery , aside from the fact that if you pick defenders who are nt playing , you get a nil return … which is good/average scoring for defence .
6 The buses are that efficient , buses , that if you miss one , within five minutes there was another one cos most of them were colliers and that 's where they were going .
7 Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance .
8 I have found that if you keep still , if you keep quiet , then the other person feels he has to continue talking .
9 But remember that if you keep doing so you will find people are reluctant to take on your case .
10 But it does seem that if you keep re-delivering the right kind of goods , there 'll come a time when the customers start queuing all over again .
11 And a kind of consensus develops amongst right-minded people in your neighbourhood , that if you keep to certain rules and rituals then by God , by magic , you 'll get to heaven , you wo n't even have to die .
12 Alison , just see , that if you stop worrying all will be well . ’
13 Pension transfers between different parts of the public sector are easy , so that if you stop being a teacher and become a civil servant , for instance , you get full credit in the new scheme .
14 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 .
15 Do not forget that if you breed two naturally hornless ( polled ) goats together , it is likely that the offspring will be non-breeding intersexes , or males with reduced fertility , due to a genetic linkage with the hornless condition .
16 Which might sound terribly dramatic people are frightened that if you offend you will not use this building again .
17 They begin by observing that if you scratch the bark of this tree it immediately exudes beads of milky latex .
18 ‘ I also pointed out that if you scratch me I bite , ’ he reminded her softly .
19 I suspect that if you asked your family and friends to list every day items which could have been made from C&P products they would find it difficult .
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 Now the medical profession responded to this state of affairs , and created antibiotics , I can assure you today , that if you die of pneumonia , you can sue your doctor , with the greatest of thought that you 'll get paid .
22 But the central argument on the industrial front is that if you bring a large number of extra jobs into an area where the unemployment is much below the national average , and much below the regional average , then you are going to bring people from the surrounding area in and many of those people we believe would far prefer to have found jobs nearer their existing homes .
23 She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive …
24 Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly .
25 You could guarantee that if you waited top of one of those yards that somebody would be fighting or wanted to fight or a window could get broken or , or either men or women .
26 A losing attitude means that if you try something and find it does n't work , you beat yourself up , give yourself a hard time and do n't try again .
27 You 'll discover that if you try to lie to me .
28 It is precisely because human beings can " change their minds " and " tell lies " that if you try to apply the methods of orthodox science to the study of human behaviour you will nearly always get it wrong .
29 It is just that if you try to use the laws of physics , in a naive way , to understand the behaviour of a whole living body , you will find that you do n't get very far .
30 It 's the classic chicken and the egg problem , that if you try and identify something starting one area , and using that as a sort of causal factor for another area of behaviour , I 'm not sure whether , in the majority of cases , you can satisfactorily identify one as being the cause and the other being the result of that causal factor .
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