Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] if it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in Britain , ‘ race ’ can not be under stood if it is falsely divorced from other political processes or grasped if it is reduced to the effect of these other relations . |
| 2 | To try erm make a material that withstand if it was hitting it . |
| 3 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 4 | I for one will be happy to be stopped and searched if it is going to help protect us from terrorist bombs . |
| 5 | Oak is not really an ideal timber for external joinery since it can suffer from surface checking and splitting if it is exposed to the sun and the rain . |
| 6 | Despite such successes in imaginative shoestring operations , the UN is desperately in need of reform and strengthening if it is to meet the critical tests of the post-Cold War era . |
| 7 | Even prominent members of the Labour Party — traditionally timid on this front — have started to argue openly that the Royal Family 's role must be streamlined and modernised if it is to survive for very much longer . |
| 8 | Put your hand on and see if it 's sticks on like burning flesh . |
| 9 | He was silent , but she could sense anger burning slowly inside him and wondered if it was directed at her . |
| 10 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |