Example sentences of "if [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing is expressly said about the rights of one class in respect of either ( a ) dividends , ( b ) return of capital , or ( c ) attendance at meetings or voting , then , prima facie , that class has the same rights in that respect as the residuary ordinary shares . |
| 2 | Although their ancestors are native to the soft , acid waters of the Amazon , commercially available fish are happy in the conditions of most community tanks , and if yours were locally bred they are probably used to your tap water . |
| 3 | If I am already doomed , what have I to lose ? ’ |
| 4 | Mrs Linley , 36 , said : ‘ The only time they can go out is if I am around to escort them to our front garden . ’ |
| 5 | They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found . |
| 6 | He 'll tell me if I am not bowling well enough to make the Test side , or if he thinks Phil Tufnell will be best suited if we need only one spinner . |
| 7 | I was not very grateful I am afraid , because I should be most surprised if I am not accepted . |
| 8 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 9 | And there , if I am not mistaken , is the ignoramus who was so aggressively rude to us at Al Forno . ’ |
| 10 | You are , if I am not mistaken , twenty-five years old , which is an age when , I am well aware , you could still meet and fall in love with a far younger man than I. However , from what you have told me , you have already given away your heart and have set aside any thought of another such love . |
| 11 | ‘ A man with much on his shoulders , if I am not mistaken . |
| 12 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
| 13 | And if I am not mistaken you could see share prices really motoring after that . |
| 14 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 15 | ‘ I love you dearly and I love the house but I could n't live here if I am not wanted . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But if I am not fit it effects my batting , bowling and fielding . ’ |
| 18 | I may prefer that people should not be malicious about me behind my back , even if I am not to know or even be affected by it , and that certain deathbed wishes of mine be carried out without supposing I will persist to be affected by them . |
| 19 | ‘ I tend to drift around in it , if I am not concentrating . |
| 20 | If I am not held up too much , I will gladly give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 21 | If I am not picked to play football I will probably play hockey . |
| 22 | If all valuation starts from choice between responses , it will extend beyond the here and now only if I am spontaneously reacting to situations outside the here and now . |
| 23 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 24 | That is , I , I take it would still be me even if I were seated , I would still be me even if I were n't holding a book , possibly I 'd still be me even if I were n't American . |
| 25 | Because even if I were n't wearing the tweed jacket I 'd still be me . |
| 26 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 27 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 28 | In the lobby afterwards , acquaintances would pass as if I were n't standing there at all . |
| 29 | I felt I must keep a very firm hold on myself if I were not to lose control altogether . |
| 30 | We were now climbing fairly steeply into the mountains and silence was impossible if I were not to lose my quarry . |