Example sentences of "if they [be] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of slimming clubs is a reminder that many people find it helpful to lose weight if they 're part of a group where they can swap stories and share experiences — but slimming clubs do n't necessarily work for everyone . |
| 2 | want to go out with you but because , you know , they think you 're a nice person , a genuine kind of g er which is exactly right here they do , they only , they will only talk to you if they 're kind of |
| 3 | Even if they 're sort of not erm involved . |
| 4 | It must be difficult if you had someone who wanted to go out all the time or if they 're sort of really living it up or something I mean |
| 5 | I mean if , if they are in bed , I mean if they are there they are resting to some extent , even if they 're sort of awake but |
| 6 | And then , though in varying degrees , you can see or hear these specific kinds of work : relatively easily if they are specific forms of your own culture ; with more difficulty , and sometimes with absolute difficulty , if they are forms of some other , especially remote culture , or if your own culture is deeply divided and these forms come from an area that is strange to you . |
| 7 | Parliament must be well aware of the great burden that is imposed on senior ministers , who not only take charge of their departments but also speak for them in Parliament , attend meetings of the Cabinet and its committees , and see to their constituency affairs if they are members of the House of Commons . |
| 8 | Bath players of recent years have never appeared as convincing for England as they regularly do for Bath ; while if they are part of one of those curious South-West sides their form goes down yet another notch . |
| 9 | I think perhaps not if they are part of our mystery . ’ |
| 10 | Professional workers may best be able to serve the interests of their clients if they are part of a strong , independent and highly qualified group which , of course , may also serve the personal ends of the members . |
| 11 | If they are part of a university , they should offer an academic grounding . |
| 12 | This means that these particular things mentioned in the above list of exclusions can be protected by patent indirectly if they are part of a patent application which includes other elements which are patentable in their own right . |
| 13 | The skills and disciplines to deliver each of these elements is available in Scotland , but will only be effectively utilised if they are part of our overall tourism strategy under one board and not , as now , with a variety of organisations working in partial isolation , and indeed often in competition . |
| 14 | If there has been little theoretical change , or if they are works of art in their own right — and especially if they are decorative — then illustrations can have a useful life much longer than the text which accompanied them . |
| 15 | Old hands wear leather gloves , old heads wear fur hats , as if they are badges of office : we hunt , we trap , we tame . |
| 16 | If they are symptoms of leprosy , then we are indeed ‘ fortunate ’ to know what the experience is like . |
| 17 | But we have become more aware of the web of necessity in which even exceptional men must move , especially if they are men of action ( as , indeed , recent discussion of the role of Hitler abundantly makes clear ) . |
| 18 | Only if they are ghosts of men with wooden legs . ’ |
| 19 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |
| 20 | In a pendentive method of construction the triangular spaces between the square section and the circular base of the hemisphere are built as if they are parts of a lower and larger dome so that their section is like that of an arch carried across the diagonal of the square space to be covered . |
| 21 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 22 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 23 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 24 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |
| 25 | William and Thomas ' names never appear in records — they would not if they were part of a company or gang , for it was the leading hand who collected the money and is mentioned in pay books . |
| 26 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 27 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 28 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 29 | Because of their cultural inhibitions all men everywhere behave as if they were members of many different species . |
| 30 | Housing estates are the modern monument of municipalism , more typically than the new civic centres and town halls , and yet they often look improvised or makeshift , as temporary as if they were plains of prefabs . |