Example sentences of "if [det] were [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 2 | If that were to be the case it could be a return to the profoundly damaging effects that the daily streaming , even in primary and elementary schools , produced in an earlier age . |
| 3 | If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth . |
| 4 | If that were to be the outcome , it would mean putting the clock back not twelve years , but a hundred years . |
| 5 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 6 | How much would it cost if fair compensation were paid to the standard rate taxpayer each year if that were to be done ? |
| 7 | Er , they would be helped , I think , by this and er , I think if that were to be the case , then I 'd be wholeheartedly behind it . |
| 8 | Er similarly we feel it would be more appropriate if that were to be the case er perhaps should point out there are other schemes where we have shown a series of of lines stars on the key diagram , it 's not just on the Harrogate . |
| 9 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 10 | If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large . |
| 11 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 12 | However , evidence suggests that non-business travel is also important and can cover 67 per cent of all movement ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) ; if this were to be substantially reduced by remote linkages by telephone or other means , the consequences for continued viability of still more rural public transport routes could be serious , especially where comparatively minor variations in demand can be critical . |
| 13 | If this were to be so , it would make a mockery of the caution and the concept of the right to silence after a charge has been preferred . |
| 14 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 15 | No decisions would ever be made if this were to be demanded . |
| 16 | If this were to be the case then no deficiency " at all would be noticed in the behaviour of the funnel . |
| 17 | If this were to be the position when goods perish after the risk has passed to the buyer , it would be a contradiction in terms . |
| 18 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 19 | " Even if this were to be a case of maternal transmission , it would have no significance for public health " . |
| 20 | If such were to be the case , the court would be confronted with a difference of medical opinion , very similar to the case in In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1421 . |
| 21 | Other institutional supports for citizenship could include a more responsive system of local government , and national and regional assemblies if these were to be set up . |
| 22 | If these were to be conceded , they would rule out a number of technical options . |