Example sentences of "if he is " in BNC.

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1 These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been .
2 Rosaline chides Berowne , and taxes him with certain conditions he must fulfil if he is to gain her hand ( the Princess and her ladies have responded to the death of the King of France by postponing any further romance for one year ) .
3 Now if he is kidnapped , what may we deduce ?
4 ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’
5 In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin .
6 This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all .
7 It is a disciplinary offence to defy an order from a senior officer , so he can only carry on if he is prepared to take on his immediate boss .
8 If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack .
9 The tournament doctor may be able to reduce the dislocation by twisting and pulling on the injured limb , but even if he is successful , that is the end of your day 's competition .
10 I suggest to T.W.R. from Glamorgan that if he is sick of hearing about Steffi , he should move to the moon .
11 Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't .
12 If a man ca n't afford to go by automobile , and if he is content with eating and architecture , the world 's best ( as I have known it ) is afoot from Poitiers , from Brives , from Perigord or Limoges .
13 ‘ It will only really be meaningful and historic if he is a great success , ’ Davis said soon after firing the existing head coach Mike Shanahan .
14 An energetic and ambitious figure who was recently elected chairman of the local council , Vishwendra Singh has threatened to run independently if he is not selected .
15 Toshack has a two-year contract worth £600,000 ( figure courtesy of The Sun ) and an awful lot to do if he is to see it out .
16 However , the Nabisco first prize is £280,000 , whereas the Volvo top purse is only £66,000 , although that could be doubled if he is also the order of merit winner .
17 He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel .
18 Sir : Mr Stephen Campbell ( letters , 5 October ) asks if he is alone in thinking that personal injury awards should be increased in relation to libel awards rather than the other way round .
19 I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place .
20 If he is a loser , who needs to be a winner .
21 Their whole game depends on getting the man on the ground out of the way , if necessary with the boot , if he is so unfortunate as to be between them and the ball .
22 If he is to persuade his colleagues that he can win for the party , he will need to seize every available chance for exposure over the next two , three , or even four years .
23 If he is cool and relaxed , all ranks can cope with the situation .
24 Mr Frost 's nearly always there , and if he is , he unlocks the gates and lets us in .
25 He thinks that if he is only slavish enough in his service of the old hag , the beautiful girl to whom he once made love will come back to him :
26 ‘ I hope he keeps his door locked at night , then , if he is n't , ’ Frank said venomously .
27 If he is so right in offering the ambulance staff 6.5 per cent , if the ambulance staff are so unreasonable in rejecting it , what has he got to be so afraid of in going to arbitration which would end this dispute this afternoon ?
28 Mr Field has said he will resign and cause a byelection if he is not reselected , a move which could divide the party nationally .
29 If he is defeated and forces a byelection , the party would probably be obliged to expel him .
30 Michael Jackson will be the first man on Mars , if he is n't already .
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