Example sentences of "be [verb] if [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already seen how the study of sequences of tone-units in the speech of one speaker can reveal information carried by intonation which would not have been recognised if intonation was analysed only at the level of individual tone-units . |
| 2 | Credit can be given to further sales , but the risks of not being paid are reduced if security is taken . |
| 3 | Strategic Planning Guidance … can provide the framework to begin the necessary work which will have to be undertaken if sustainability is to be given any credence within the development plan framework . ’ |
| 4 | Under such automated systems and automated quality controls , the production line will be stopped if performance is not up to standard . |
| 5 | People are now waking up to the fact that the natural world is our primary source and has got to be conserved if man is to continue . |
| 6 | Since the coach is kept at Snailbeach earlier pickups can be arranged if notice is given . |
| 7 | The experience of Cherry Willingham School suggests that several key strategies need to be included if LMS is to be successful with support staff . |
| 8 | Stacey and I followed these arguments , insisting that issues of women and politics can only be addressed if attention is paid to the familial institutions of society ( Stacey and Price , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | In calling for an ‘ unprecedented management ’ initiative to offset the effects of reduced staffing levels , Derek Dean did not mince words : ‘ It is not an over statement to say that a crisis is imminent and can only be averted if action is taken by all concerned as a matter of extreme urgency . ’ |
| 10 | It is not an overstatement to say that a crisis is imminent and can only be averted if action is taken by all concerned as a matter of extreme urgency . |
| 11 | There is clearly an element of circularity in the argument in that it presumes that the subject-matter is properly before the tribunal , a presumption which can only be made if subject-matter is defined purely in terms of furnished tenancy itself . |
| 12 | It was then decided that progress would be made if use was made of the " cascade " method , in which a small group would receive intensive training and practice and then would train others . |
| 13 | They all affect each other — the growth of industry would be hampered if marketing were inadequate and industry can be disrupted by financial disruption — but on this view industrial production has a more fundamental or determining effect on the whole economy than the other sectors have . |
| 14 | Its real efficacy can only be tested over time and it remains to be seen if clozapine is a major advance , or whether the wide spectrum of response originally found with chlorpromazine , from full recovery to no response , is merely replicated , with a general shift a bit further in the desired direction . |
| 15 | Off-campus accommodation can be organized if application is made sufficiently in advance , reservations can be made in hotels ( single or double rooms ) , bedsitters with Hungarian families , small one-bedroom flats . |
| 16 | Splitting communication into levels may sometimes help , but those separate levels will always need to be reintegrated if communication is to take place . |
| 17 | Alexander raised none of the questions which would have to be answered if emancipation were to take place : whether serfs were to be granted land as well as liberty , whether and how they were to pay for them , and how local government was to be conducted if the jurisdiction of serf-owners came to an end . |
| 18 | Here a change of social circumstances would be needed if vulnerability were to be reduced . |
| 19 | Taxes had to go up ; thrift , if not already learned by a recession-weary public , had to be enforced if borrowing were to come down . |
| 20 | This would mean that even before fertilisation , the female gamete could be damaged if alcohol is consumed . |
| 21 | The importance of effective parenthood can not be overemphasised if civilisation is to progress . |
| 22 | Performance on any task therefore , from playing tennis , to taking exams , to going to work , will be impaired if anxiety is too high or too low , but somewhere between these lies the ideal degree of anxiety for producing our best performance . |
| 23 | Other conventions that have to be appreciated if meaning is a be obtained from pictures include the following : |
| 24 | On top of that come huge sums of cheap credit to enterprises which must be reduced if inflation is to be controlled . |
| 25 | Yet intuitively , the scope for such abuse would be reduced if entry were easy . |
| 26 | At high temperatures , the spaces between the solvent molecules have to be reduced if mixing is to take place and when this eventually results in too great a loss of entropy , phase separation occurs . |
| 27 | Given the reformers ' argument that PR would enhance the likelihood of coalition government , consent could be undermined if government was to result from post-election bargaining between parties ; by a small center party holding the balance of power and hence wielding undue influence over government policy ; and by the alienation of voters who support a party excluded on a long-term basis from becoming a partner in coalition . |
| 28 | I appreciate that this purpose may not be served if consent is given on behalf of , rather than by , the patient . |
| 29 | The problem which arose in British Steel can be overcome if agreement is finally reached . |
| 30 | During June each year , visitors to Kilwinning are likely to be perplexed if reference is made to the town 's annual papingo shoot . |