Example sentences of "if he be not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though if he 's not selected , I shall downgrade him and Sally Newcombe will ride him because continuing to compete at that level is such an emotional strain on him ’ . |
| 2 | If he 's not born in thee , thou art still forlorn . |
| 3 | Their son Rhys suffers from Batten 's disease , which will cause blindness , dementia and death by the age of seven if he is not treated soon . |
| 4 | An energetic and ambitious figure who was recently elected chairman of the local council , Vishwendra Singh has threatened to run independently if he is not selected . |
| 5 | The next day Karen telephones Lydia and threatens to tell the local newspaper and the national press about the ‘ assault on her boy by a teacher ’ if he is not reinstated immediately . |
| 6 | He is a special category of senior civil servant whom a minister can send into temporary retirement and replace with another if he is not felt to share the minister 's party political affiliation . |
| 7 | In fact , at common law , it is better for the seller if he is not fixed with actual knowledge of such contracts , since he is then more likely to escape liability for consequential loss suffered by the buyer if the seller 's default prevents the buyer from fulfilling his obligations under those contracts . |
| 8 | ‘ If he is not invited to remain as our candidate I will resign . |
| 9 | Mr Field has said he will resign and cause a byelection if he is not reselected , a move which could divide the party nationally . |
| 10 | The deputy mayor said confidently , ‘ While I am absolutely certain that he will be found , if he is not found , this will be setting a precedent ’ ; since the mayoral office was instituted this is normally only a formality , with the mayor-elect waiting downstairs to be ‘ found ’ . |
| 11 | Moreover if these covenants were given full force , they would tend to reduce his freedom to seek better conditions even by asking for a rise in wages ; because if he is not allowed to get work elsewhere he is very much at the mercy of his employer . |
| 12 | The restrictive covenant cases demonstrate that a covenant will not be upheld on the basis of the status of the information which might be disclosed by a former employee if he is not restrained , unless it can be regarded as a business secret or the equivalent of a business secret . |
| 13 | If he is not groomed the way he likes ( he 's ultra-ticklish ) , he wrinkles one nostril . |
| 14 | Thus a man may be possessed of knowledge of discreditable incidents in the victim 's life and may seek to extort money by threatening , if he is not paid , to disclose the knowledge to a wife or husband or employer , though the disclosure may not be libellous . |
| 15 | In such cases the nominated auditor still has to make professional enquiry of the existing auditor even if he is not qualified to audit , and whether or not he is a member of the Institute . |
| 16 | On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too . |
| 17 | If he was not involved , then he must have been incredibly naive . |
| 18 | If he was not saved , then Sapt would ask me to stay and marry the Princess . |
| 19 | In other words , Bukharin was cautiously calling for curbs on Stalin 's power , even if he was not referred to by name . |
| 20 | Although Reagan 's knowledge of foreign affairs was non-existent , to the point where if he was not prompted he often had no idea which country he was talking about , he needed little convincing by the American intelligence agencies that now was the time for America to start waging a secret war against its enemies . |
| 21 | Later , if he was not offered those conditions , he created them for himself . |
| 22 | Jackson was restless at Aberdeen and had ambitions to play in England , but he threatened to return to America , where he had lived earlier , if he was not released . |
| 23 | He could not argue that , if he was not allowed to start his new job , he would starve . |
| 24 | But FIFA threatened that if he was not forced to back down , all five French clubs would be thrown out of next week 's European competitions , the national team would be barred from the 1994 World Cup finals and that France would no longer be able to host the 1998 finals . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , I have checked with my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) , who would have leapt to his feet to speak if he were not precluded from doing so by virtue of his office , and I have read the document to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 26 | His father Ted , of Stoke-on-Trent , said : ‘ He could endure prison if he were not chained . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |