Example sentences of "if it be [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single blow from a Singing Blade can cleave a fully armoured man in two if it is struck from a thundering chariot . |
| 2 | If it is prevented from penetrating , the glue will adhere only to the damaged edges of the tubes which will break away as soon as a load comes on . |
| 3 | Inevitably , the use of the soundtrack as a radio commercial involves some loss of effect , and it seems to me that in general a radio commercial is going to have a much better chance of achieving its desired effect if it is created from scratch . |
| 4 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 5 | And if it is diverted from national savings , it does not help anyway . |
| 6 | The first item in the list is taken as the root of the tree , so if it is built from an alphabetically ordered word list , a degenerate tree will result , where all the left pointers will be null ( Knuth , 1973 , p426 ; Claybrook , 1983 , p95 ) . |
| 7 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 8 | However , shot 2 can be taken from the ‘ wrong ’ side of the path if it is aimed from D directly on the line of the girl 's approach ; this frontal angle neutralises her previous left-to-right movement across the screen in the minds of the audience . |
| 9 | What else can you call it if it 's priced from $3,500 and $4,000 and meant to be a network client . |
| 10 | Besides , if it 's understood from the outset that you have entirely different tastes , perhaps you 're less likely to disagree . |
| 11 | And if it 's coming from the farthest reaches of space — where the tide of expansion flows really fast-it will still not have reached us — even though it started out on its journey at the beginning of the Universe , thousands of millions of years ago . ’ |
| 12 | whether the Germans would be , I mean if it 's coming from a German T V station but do they broadcast American you know , English speaking programmes there in Germany |
| 13 | A normal arrow would shatter if it was fired from one . |
| 14 | She swayed , and the colour felt as if it was draining from her face . |
| 15 | If it was stolen from a house . |
| 16 | It is hoped that this stems from the fact that the zonal code given per letter by the recogniser is not as accurate as some overall shape information would be , if it were obtained from the x , y coordinates of the script . |
| 17 | Herschel reasoned that a relatively nearby star would show a parallax shift against the background of more remote stars if it were observed from opposite sides of the Earth 's orbit . |
| 18 | From the start the new feature film had been saddled with outside obligations ; it had to preach or at least uplift , or if it were borrowing from literature it had to satisfy so many knowledgeable readers . |
| 19 | Whilst recognising the central role of managers in providing counselling in these circumstances , consideration should be given , in exceptional cases , to whether this form of support would be delivered more effectively if it were separated from the normal manager/employee relationship . |
| 20 | ‘ I think , ’ she went on hurriedly , ‘ that it might be best if it were to come from me . |
| 21 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |