Example sentences of "if we be [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders if we are also to have aluminum inflicted upon us surreptitiously . |
| 2 | Understanding the gender-specific connotations of certain fields of learning is crucial if we are also to comprehend the process by which gender inequality is produced in education . |
| 3 | But it is not only to the institutionalised abuse of animals that we must turn if we are progressively to disengage ourselves . |
| 4 | We talk about scaleability if we are indeed to entice mainframe style applications towards the open systems platforms then we need to behilosophy as a truly worldwide supplier of accounting software is th software components with a low entry cost . |
| 5 | It is clear that better therapeutic strategies will be needed if we are substantially to improve outcome in subjects with phenylketonuria . |
| 6 | ‘ Clearly , we need a little more detail , Dr. Briant , if we are fully to understand . |
| 7 | If we are genuinely to make the services more acceptable and enhance users ' individual experiences we must take seriously the users ' views about their own personal treatment and care . |
| 8 | ITHINK if we are ever to see grand hokum in the Mac marketplace we 'll see it in the months ahead , as the M-word — multimedia — becomes the in thing to discuss in the 1990s . |
| 9 | If we are ever to pass through what a shrewd American has named the ‘ moronic inferno ’ into what I call ‘ the oxyinoronic paradiso ’ , then responses from a deeper level are required . |
| 10 | ‘ If we are ever to have a real modern church , it must be by adopting a fresh church arrangement . ’ |
| 11 | If we are ever to achieve a magnetically-confined plasma that is kept hot enough by thermonuclear reactions , then the confinement system must contain the electrically-charged alpha particles that are produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium . |
| 12 | I 'm also very worried , and this has been mentioned erm , by Mr , that the er , the Home Secretary seems to regard the police constabulary as a mere crime busting organisation , whereas really , the preventative work , the crime prevention , the work in the schools and the community work is absolutely vital if we are ever to solve , erm , we 're ever to stop , the er , if we 're ever able to stop the rise in crime , and this really has to be done hand in hand , I feel with local councils , and I 'm glad to say that there are some initiatives around , one of them in Mr 's own district , which is making erm , some very important steps towards that . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 14 | If we are ever to change our habitual response to given stimuli we have to make a conscious decision to refuse to act in old automatic and unconscious patterns ; that is , to say ‘ no ’ to ingrained habits . |
| 15 | We people who must vote for the Party if we are ever to win power again . |
| 16 | Whilst that may be interesting ( and I am not suggesting that we should refrain totally from such activity ) , something more is needed if we are really to approach the Earth and the earth spirit with any depth and with any hope of useful results . |
| 17 | ‘ Coaching needs to have a much bigger presence if we are really to make a big impact . |
| 18 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 19 | If we were then to get to a position like Dorset County Council , who have no debts , they of course can spend a hundred percent of the money they realise from assets . |
| 20 | If we were now to consider the many sonnets of celebration of the Friend where the Thou outweighs the I we would find a similar dedication to the other without , I feel , any disabling by modern tastes — self-abnegation . |
| 21 | Now if we were actually to do that in our service books , which is what one of the things that the Methodist conference suggests we consider , just crossing out and putting in the correct non-sexists language , I bet you that eighty percent of our church would be up in arms . |