Example sentences of "if they [be] part 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 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 .
3 I think perhaps not if they are part of our mystery . ’
4 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 .
5 If they are part of a university , they should offer an academic grounding .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army .
9 Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ?
10 Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ?
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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