Example sentences of "if they [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depends on the job does n't it , how much they 're using , but if they 're supposed to be using regularly , surely one person . |
| 2 | cos if they 're supposed to be |
| 3 | Children , if they are used to being treated with respect , will behave accordingly . |
| 4 | But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men . |
| 5 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 6 | 1 Contact community nurses and other services if they are likely to be required . |
| 7 | Theoretically , it should be a simple matter of asking your own parents or a favourite sibling if they are willing to be named as guardians . |
| 8 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 9 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |