Example sentences of "if [pron] are to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must make your own if you are to be a Lapp . |
| 2 | In the next chapter you will find details of exercises in breathing , relaxation , basic meditation and visualisation — all of which are vital If you are to be healthy in a truly holistic way . |
| 3 | I think it is essential to feel that if you are to be a successful athlete . |
| 4 | ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick . |
| 5 | This first kite has to work if you are to be satisfied , so our first tip is for you to be conservative , and select one of the tried and tested shapes that give least trouble . |
| 6 | You need to learn to handle it for at least three minutes if you are to be any good at negotiations . |
| 7 | Making miniatures from pressed flowers could really be an entire book in itself , as you need different and very particular skills if you are to be successful . |
| 8 | This is very difficult when you are accustomed to your precise and meaningful jargon , but it is a skill you must acquire if you are to be a successful communicator . |
| 9 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 10 | But if we are to be fixed to the Deutschmark , that should be an agreed and acknowledged policy . |
| 11 | If we are to be at all logical in our approach to contemporary ethics , we must accept this much . |
| 12 | But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face . |
| 13 | The motivation must be right if we are to be effective in the Lord 's service . |
| 14 | Yet if we are to be realistic in our starting-point we must accept that the relationships which give rise to nuclear catastrophe are likely to be relationships between sovereign states , each able to possess and deploy armed force for their own interests . |
| 15 | That if we are to be individuals there is no escape from our interdependence . |
| 16 | It will be needed , above all , if we are to be able to read the historical record . |
| 17 | And so , if we are to be judged by the wishes in our unconscious , we are , like primitive man , simply a gang of murderers … . |
| 18 | ( To be precise , there are four Humean conditions to satisfy , if we are to be sure that c caused e on some occasion , namely : c preceded e ; there was no intermediate event ; events like c are always followed by events like e in those conditions ; and we are in the habit of expecting the sequence . ) |
| 19 | Like so many journalists , I am very Opinionated , hopefully in private only — even about my own profession , journalism If we are to be seen as an independent , unbiased and creditable observer , should we really be in the political arena with our trade union the NUJ ? |
| 20 | This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data . |
| 21 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 22 | For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us . |
| 23 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 24 | If we are to be more specific , we must compare one particular type of indirect tax system with one particular type of direct tax system . |
| 25 | I need that from Bobby and the rest of the side if we are to be successful , ’ says newly-appointed Larder . |
| 26 | If we are to be successful , we must have Europeanwide agreement . |
| 27 | If we are to be able to select the most appropriate selling opportunities , the information on our database must be as comprehensive as possible . |
| 28 | As the Chairman , Pat Retief in his Annual Chairman 's Review says , ‘ we must continue to be a profitable company if we are to be a good employer in the fullest sense , capable of maintaining and enhancing our portfolio of assets and maximising the development of the Group 's human resources . |
| 29 | We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us . |
| 30 | ‘ We both saw her put in the taxi , if we are to be accurate . ’ |