Example sentences of "[conj] if [art] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , if the court orders the conveyance , or if the conveyance is by agreement to satisfy the claim of the wife , it will be inappropriate for the husband to convey " as settlor " since the conveyance is not a voluntary disposition or settlement ; for this to be an effective covenant the conveying party must not only be expressed to convey as " settlor " , he must actually be a settlor ( see Fay v Miller Wilkins & Co [ 1941 ] Ch 360 , although Emmet on Title ( 19th edn , Longman , para 14.003 ) expresses doubts concerning this decision ) . |
| 2 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 3 | Fortunately I was n't close enough to see whether the prediction was correct , or if the beaker was in fact too small . |
| 4 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 5 | The new guarantee , good for the first year after purchase , would entitle consumers to free repairs , a replacement on loan or compensation if the product is not repaired within five days ( three for motor vehicles ) , the choice of a refund or replacement if the fault can not be put right in three attempts , or if the product is under repair for 30 days in any 12-month period . |
| 6 | It may be in Page 8 the form C : \dir1\file1 or if the search is to be confined to the current disk it may be simplified to \dir1\file1 . |
| 7 | In a placing the issuing house buys the shares from the issuing company , and ‘ places ’ them with investors , mainly institutional investors ( although if the placing is for more than £2 million , then a quarter of the issue has to be sold to the public ) . |
| 8 | In the habitual contexts of English Literature teaching , students assume that if a work is on a reading list then it must be of approved quality , otherwise why is it there ? |
| 9 | The Elton Report recommends that if a pupil is to be readmitted to school after an indefinite period of exclusion , the school should ensure that before the pupil is allowed to return his/her parent signs an agreement in which the terms of the pupil 's readmission have been spelt out . |
| 10 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |
| 11 | All must accept that if a deal is to be struck by the end of this year , negotiation will have to begin in earnest much earlier , preferably during the next two months . |
| 12 | Looked at from a White House perspective , it is clear that if a president is to be effective in achieving his objectives he needs unity and discipline within the executive branch . |
| 13 | Subject to the contrary agreement of the partners : ( 5 ) Every partner may take part in the management of the partnership business ( 7 ) No partner may be introduced as a partner without the consent of all existing partners ( 8 ) Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected with the partnership business may be decided by a majority of the partners , but no change may be made in the nature of the partnership business without the consent of all existing partners It is obvious enough that if a partner is to be held responsible for the acts of his co-partners committed in the name of the firm he should in principle have : ( 1 ) unrestricted access to information about those acts ; ( 2 ) every right , indeed a duty , to assume personal responsibility ( equally with his co-partners ) for the conduct of the firm 's affairs ; and ( 3 ) the right ( by exercise of a veto ) to prevent any act for which he is unwilling to accept liability . |
| 14 | Later cases have also insisted that if an employee is to be prevented from working in that area in which he has gained great expertise then the covenant is unlikely to be upheld . |
| 15 | Section 1 of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 specifies that if an instrument is to be a deed , this must be clear on the face of it , and that the requirement for individuals to seal is abolished . |
| 16 | I grant you that if the driver were in complicity with the robber , that would not apply . |
| 17 | None the less , it has concluded that if the backlog is to be eliminated there will need to be a similar increase in the recurrent baseline , which represents a substantial commitment of university funding . |
| 18 | I heard recently that if the patient is in North Wales he may be 2 hours from the nearest hospital . |
| 19 | There was a heel-bone , in particular , which Dr Macleod said was such , that if the foot was in proportion , it must have been twenty-seven inches long . |
| 20 | The problem is that if the organisation is in an unstable environment then a different , more flexible , organisational structure is necessary . |
| 21 | I discovered that if the ribber is on half pitch , the transfer needle does n't move at all . |
| 22 | Everyone agrees that if the service is to be seamless there are enormous benefits in having people providing care across the health-social care boundary — ‘ one person providing bathing , bandaging , and hoovering ’ — and not bothering about who pays . |
| 23 | I mean only that if the problem is in their heads then the solution can be found in the same place . |
| 24 | When so that if the parameter were to be unity , the response would be identical to first-order Butterworth . |
| 25 | the view of the traffic planners here is that if the bike is to be seen as a realistic substitute to the car over distances of up to two km , then every point must be made accessible to it . |
| 26 | ‘ . The theory which they comprise is an attempt to articulate the feeling that , for a belief to be knowledge , it must be peculiarly sensitive to the truth of the proposition believed ; it must track the truth ( Nozick 's term ) in the sense that if the proposition were in changed circumstances still true , it would still be believed , and if it were not true , it would not . |
| 27 | I favour the approach that if the band is worth 2,000 people in a town , then it is smart to book the 1,500-seat venue . |
| 28 | Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that if the killing is to be stopped and a just and peaceful solution is to be found , all politicians , whatever their views , have a responsibility to speak to each other ? |
| 29 | Furthermore article 939 of the Swiss civil code provides that if the purchaser is in bad faith , based on the test summarised above , the dispossessed owner can claim back his property without any limitation in time . |
| 30 | It seems , however , that if the auction is in fact held , then anything advertised to be ‘ without reserve ’ must be sold to the highest bidder . |