Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] if [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 2 | I , I would normally say to you now , right what 's your objectives for the two days , but to be honest if we do that , er , I do n't think it helps very much , erm , but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it , er , then I 'll try and just talk you through it . |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 4 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 5 | ‘ This might be just a game to you , but I 'm working , and I 'm going to be late if you hold me up ! ’ |
| 6 | A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighbouring vowels . |
| 7 | He can see it as blue ( that is , it can be the case that , on looking at it , he would take it to be blue if he had no reason to think otherwise ) only if he can discriminate between objects in respect of their being or not being blue . |
| 8 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
| 9 | Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) . |
| 10 | I could n't bear to be married if I had n't … ‘ |
| 11 | We define ALT patterns to be distinct if they have different abstract shapes . |
| 12 | I do n't think people are going to be disappointed if they miss out . |
| 13 | You need to encourage the patient with gentleness , but you will probably have to be firm if he wants to stop a task simply because he feels bored and lazy . |
| 14 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 15 | As to business activities , a covenant is likely to be unreasonable if it covers activities which are not relevant to the business sold . |
| 16 | An algorithm is considered to be practical if it runs in polynomial time , i.e run-time O(nk) for some constant k . |
| 17 | I think its got to be better if I hold it different . |
| 18 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 19 | This certainly seems to be true if we consider that at the time the activity ( such as using a book ) takes place , the person concerned is certainly doing it in preference to doing anything else . |
| 20 | They are only likely to be resentful if they suspect that their parents are acting from nothing better than outraged respectability . |
| 21 | You were supposed to be bright if you took things in quickly . |
| 22 | You will have to be ruthless if you find that they do n't press successfully , and either move them to another site in the garden , or give them to someone else . |
| 23 | After all , it was our job to be fit if we wanted to keep our place in the team . |
| 24 | It was all going to cease to be fun if she wanted any action out of him . |
| 25 | There was no doubt about it — things were going to be tight if she decided to continue to live at Tullivers . |
| 26 | The lecturer will not be there and so you will be free to be rude if you want to be . |
| 27 | Ministers do not seek to influence LEAs ' decisions or policies on them : they would cease to be discretionary if we did . |
| 28 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 29 | Once you have identified the points that are going to be crucial in your particular job , you may have to be persuasive if you want improved safeguards built into your agreement . |
| 30 | But it would be idle to pretend that there were not frivolous appeals and attempts by parties to delay and frustrate justice and to be obstructive if it suited them , when litigants learned how to " play " the courts to their advantage . |