Example sentences of "if he [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The [ financier ] , wrote Angell , ‘ has no country , and he knows , if he be of the modern type , that arms and conquests and jugglery with frontiers serve no ends of his … ’ . |
| 2 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 3 | Now we 're part of government policy which happens to be hear no evil see no evil … one bloody monkey 's enough if he 's in the top job . |
| 4 | He 'll also find out if he 's in the top three , and therefore will receive a further cash prize . |
| 5 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 6 | My husband always maintains that white wine tastes better when drunk outside — by which he actually means that if he is in the open air he is relaxed and therefore more capable of enjoying anything . |
| 7 | It was as if he was on the other side of a river that no one knew how to cross . |
| 8 | Roy was standing in the doorway , staring at the kitchen as if he was in the wrong house . |
| 9 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |