Example sentences of "if [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
| 2 | If if if I be yes , Mr Curtis 's ball-park figure . |
| 3 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 4 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 5 | I tell you I will make a gentlewoman of you if you be obliging and do n't stand in your own light . |
| 6 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 7 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 8 | it is n't the case of just being a fireman say get a rescue tender and whirl it up and erm there about , you 've got to get , you 've got to be a fire , if you be a fireman you 've got to get in everything erm |
| 9 | The country priest is a lover of old customs , if they be good and harmless , and the rather because the country people are much addicted to them . |
| 10 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
| 11 | The Elizabethan nobleman who defended the episcopate because , " As they shoot at bishops now , so will they do at the nobility also , if they be suffered " , was not wide of his mark . |
| 12 | So you 've got to take the initiative and be firm where you need to be with a company or with a farmer … and consider his needs , if they be economical , impracticable . |
| 13 | Well if they be racist . |
| 14 | If it be nasty weather , I take a turn in the chocolate-hause : where , as you walk , madam , you have the prettiest prospect in the world ; you have lookingglasses all round you . |
| 15 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 16 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 17 | If the room be too mean , and too little for the books ; if it be too much out of repair ; if the situation be inconvenient ; if the access to it be dishonourable ; is the library keeper to answer for it ? … |
| 18 | If it be in the dusk when , like an eyelid 's soundless blink , |
| 19 | If it be at an untimely hour , or if they fail to assign a proper reason for being in a place , he is to arrest them … showing bad characters that they are known and watched by him … their habits will point them out without further ado … |
| 20 | Even if it be true that the Roman system of water supply survived in Perugia and a few other cities into the Middle Ages and has been believed to be better than anything the modern world has yet provided — in most places water was hard to come by and almost as expensive at times as wine . |
| 21 | The fact that the media regularly confront their audience with discourse and images about gays requires that a vocabulary for dealing with such awkwardnesses be discovered , even if it be the lexicon of bigotry and stereotype . |
| 22 | What power , then , must prayer have if it be well intentioned ? |
| 23 | ‘ If it be agreeable also to my lady Anne in whose service I am , ’ Joan replied dutifully . |
| 24 | If it be made to rest on any other foundation it is insecure and unstable . |
| 25 | In burning his New Testament , he wrote , they did ‘ none other than I looked for : no more shall they do if they burn me also , if it be God 's will it shall be so ’ . |
| 26 | This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … . |
| 27 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 28 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |
| 29 | I have said before , and if it be any satisfaction to him I repeat it now , that if you attempt to enforce this Bill , and the people of Ulster believe , and have a right to believe , that you are doing it against the will of the people of this country , then I shall assist them in resisting it . |
| 30 | If it be necessary or desirable to protect the holder of a patent against fraud or dishonesty it must equally be necessary and desirable to protect the plaintiffs against the fraud and dishonesty alleged in the present case . |