Example sentences of "if [pron] be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank and building society managers are supposed to be approachable : if yours is not then change to another branch . |
| 2 | Even if yours is not a beach holiday , you should n't need much . |
| 3 | I shall be staggered if I am not involved with the club at the end of this month . |
| 4 | It says : ‘ If I am not for myself , who will be for me ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I love you dearly and I love the house but I could n't live here if I am not wanted . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 7 | Then why is this happening , if I am not ill , what is wrong with me ? |
| 8 | ‘ But if I am not fit it effects my batting , bowling and fielding . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If I am not successful in finding what I am looking for I shall return and tell you . ’ |
| 10 | I feel that if I am not with her I will be making a great mistake , missing a real opportunity . |
| 11 | This means that , however objectively true something may or may not be , if I am not personally convinced of it , then for me personally it is not true . |
| 12 | We are now both retired and watch TV together if we are both interest ( while I sew up ) ; if I am not interested , or my husband is out , I knit and listen to the radio . |
| 13 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 14 | He 'll tell me if I am not bowling well enough to make the Test side , or if he thinks Phil Tufnell will be best suited if we need only one spinner . |
| 15 | If I am not completely satisfied , I will return my three books within 10 days , my membership will be cancelled and I will owe nothing . |
| 16 | If I am not completely satisfied , I will return the books within ten days , my subscription will be cancelled and I will owe nothing . |
| 17 | Also , if I am not there , some people might have loose tongues if they think you do not understand . ’ |
| 18 | I may prefer that people should not be malicious about me behind my back , even if I am not to know or even be affected by it , and that certain deathbed wishes of mine be carried out without supposing I will persist to be affected by them . |
| 19 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 20 | I was not very grateful I am afraid , because I should be most surprised if I am not accepted . |
| 21 | And there , if I am not mistaken , is the ignoramus who was so aggressively rude to us at Al Forno . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Here , if I am not much mistaken , comes his customer . ’ |
| 23 | You are , if I am not mistaken , twenty-five years old , which is an age when , I am well aware , you could still meet and fall in love with a far younger man than I. However , from what you have told me , you have already given away your heart and have set aside any thought of another such love . |
| 24 | He answered , ‘ How can I help them if I am not able to weep ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I tend to drift around in it , if I am not concentrating . |
| 26 | ‘ A man with much on his shoulders , if I am not mistaken . |
| 27 | If I am not picked to play football I will probably play hockey . |
| 28 | I announce that I plan to throw one honey of a tantrum , complete with sound effects and meteorological events , if I am not instantly issued with a remote to keep tabs on my subject . |
| 29 | If I am not able to visit the Western Isles in the near future , I shall certainly act on his suggestion that we should send a team of Scottish Office officials and that will be arranged as soon as is reasonably practicable . |
| 30 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |