Example sentences of "if a [noun] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowles 's finest novel , The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , is decorated with parodistic devices far less integral than in Joyce 's Ulysses , as if a technique needed to be aped and mocked in order to be exorcised . |
| 2 | On the one hand , trade unionists were increasingly confident that the period of post-war wage reductions was about to be halted , even if a battle remained to be fought . |
| 3 | Edouard , if a man had to be responsible for every little by-blow , where would it end ? |
| 4 | When a man wished to know what a king should be like , his clerical advisers would give him an expurgated account of the careers of King David , King Solomon and King Hezekiah ; if a man aspired to be emperor , he might hear a little about Constantine and Theodosius and other imperial figures of the distant past ; but he would hear above all about Charlemagne . |
| 5 | If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it . |
| 6 | Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function . |
| 7 | Why should the fact that D was engaged on causing damage to property at the time ( even damage to D's own property ) make his conduct into an offence punishable with life imprisonment when , if D were engaged on some other activity , it would not be punishable as such and would only amount to manslaughter if a death happened to be caused ? |