Example sentences of "[prep] if [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location .
2 It 's not a question of if he 's sacked but when .
3 Tobacco kills vitamins and lowers the body 's resistance to disease , particularly to air-borne viruses — a side effect you should be aware of if you are cutting down on body-building food intake — and it also has a depressant effect on appetite .
4 If it 's humanly possible , lay them down , raise the legs , how about if they 're shivering ?
5 I think they 're a very dangerous mode of education because they provide a very stereo-typed image of everything , everybody that they 're talking about if they 're talking about sex , they presume to be able bodied , they 're presumed to be white generally , they 're presumed to be heterosexual , if they 're talking about homosexual then , it 's definitely male lesbians
6 writing names of people what about if you 're writing names of countries would you ?
7 How about if it was smirring
8 It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to .
9 It 's bound to get out and then it will look as if we 're helping the Khedive to cover up .
10 And in fact it is as if we 're having , it is if George is actually having two conversations at the same time .
11 So it 's not as if we 're having breathing and did n't know what to do ! were n't it ?
12 So , it is n't as if we 're saying , erm maths has always been taught quite well but we can do it better .
13 It 's as if we 're rehearsing it : what 's my next line ?
14 as if we 're asking you to do our work .
15 ‘ Mrs. Olinton 's rung the fire-brigade , but , thanks to you , young lady , it does n't look as if we 're going to need it .
16 ‘ Looks as if we 're going to have a bull session , Dad . ’
17 It looks as if we 're going to have a hell of a job to identify him .
18 We budgeted a thousand pounds , it looks as if we 're going to have to spend more on urgent work .
19 ‘ Looks as if we 're going to get some fog now .
20 but everything else we can sort , getting there , it 's not as if we 're gon na need a bloody fire is it Jane ?
21 Sounds as if we 're talking about more than one teacher .
22 It 's as if we are gabbling the end of a play we are in .
23 A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands .
24 It is almost as if we are dealing with quite another God .
25 It 's as if we are taking part not in real life but in a piece of reportage on the British constitutional system ’ ( 22 October 1964 ) .
26 But the union just look on us as if we are employed by them .
27 It sounds as if we are doing little more than making the best of a bad job .
28 Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government .
29 B : ‘ I am worried about my job because it looks as if we are going to be privatised soon and there may be redundancies .
30 ‘ It certainly looks as if we are going to be quite a bit worse off next year , ’ he said .
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