Example sentences of "if he [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 32 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
| 33 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 34 | He wrote in an essay published in 1937 that an artist must lead a " commonplace life " if he is properly to do his work . |
| 35 | If he is beyond recall , then she at least surely deserves a little compassion . |
| 36 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 37 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 38 | WHAT music would the Transport Secretary , John MacGregor , choose if he is ever invited on to Desert Island Discs ? |
| 39 | A man can not be an island here if he is ever to turn his back on this place . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ That is , if he is ever to come out of prison . |
| 41 | If he is now giving us a commitment that the reasons for a refusal will be made available to the applicant , that is welcome . |
| 42 | If he is consistently having to refer back for support this will not only weaken his standing with the contractor , but it will cause uncertainty and delay to the contract . |
| 43 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 44 | If he is so intoxicated , he is almost certainly guilty of the offence of being either drunk and disorderly or drunk in a public place . |
| 45 | We have already seen that the doctor may well honour this principle more in the breach than the observance if he is so minded . |
| 46 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 47 | On the other hand , as a group activity it can be less than enjoyable for the shortest child in the group if he is continually identified as ‘ the shortest ’ , when he needs to believe that ‘ he 's a big boy , really ’ . |