Example sentences of "if [noun] [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If titles have been marked on a print-out they should already be subdivided , as suggested above , though some further editing may be necessary . |
| 2 | The insider/ethnographer can turn his understanding of an interpretive methodology to an assessment of his own actions , and see connections as if scales had been removed from his eyes . |
| 3 | A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years . |
| 4 | A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more . |
| 5 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |
| 6 | If we turn to trusts we find Valens stating that if maintenance has been left by trust to freedmen without a sum being stated , then first of all the amounts usually paid by the deceased are to be taken into account , then his bequests to those of the same class , and failing these his assets and intimacy with the beneficiaries are to be considered . |
| 7 | If songs have been evolved by males because of competition for mates , one would expect males of polygamous species to have more complex songs than monogamous species . |
| 8 | It 's the noise element which could yet be their finest asset : if baggydom has been polluted by feyness and undermined by limp-wristed disinterest , then there 's a huge gap in which hectic ( but tuneful ) arse-kickers can make their mark . |
| 9 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 10 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 11 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 12 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 13 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 14 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 15 | If nature had been modelled by man into productive commodities , man 's own subjectivity had also become reified into a self-identical instrument ; man had become an empty and passive consumer . |
| 16 | Thus , relief is given in , for example , Sweden as if tax had been paid in Barbados . |
| 17 | Or alternatively if cash has been allocated for a later purchase of , say , an expected new issue of bonds and the fear is of prices rising , an investor can hedge by buying a future or by acquiring a call option . |
| 18 | If speculation had been restricted to these traditional fields then the effect on the overall price level would probably have been relatively insignificant , since the feed-through effects to other goods would have been modest . |
| 19 | At the end of August the rains stopped as suddenly as if taps had been turned off September was considered by the English community even under normal conditions to be the most unhealthy month of the year ; while the hot sun resumed its office of drying out the pools of water which had collected on the sodden earth , fever-bearing mists and miasmas hung everywhere . |
| 20 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 21 | If problems have been identified during assessment , monitoring of vital signs and fluid balance may continue . |
| 22 | Erm well we 'd , we 'd got something on trying to ascertain if things had been produced by a multinational , which I suppose ties in with probably with , with three down . |
| 23 | Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't |
| 24 | Also standardisation of interpretation can be ensured if objectives have been set in terms of a specific number of faults . |
| 25 | Such details should be supplied at the earliest possible opportunity when the booking is being made , and if arrangements have been made in advance ( either by letter or by telephone ) , they should be confirmed in writing at the point of reception . |
| 26 | If ground had been lost since 1963 , it had been lost before Labour took power . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 28 | If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward |
| 29 | ‘ I could not understand why , if Allingham had been taken by a seizure , he had not tried to open the door , turn the key and call for help . |
| 30 | Even if consideration had been confined to health education as opposed to the broader concept of health promotion , the interventions could readily have been predicted to be of limited value . |