Example sentences of "if it [vb -s] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | er actually who are all in front , mostly from Stanton which I represent , they have made their views known to me some years ago , er this might happen , erm I 'm very glad that you have responded now to their concerns as well as the concerns of the villages and , and this paper does mark significant erm success co-operation between a lot of people involved and for that reason I welcome it , I would ask if it becomes be prepared to make it six months instead of three months please . |
| 2 | If it 's been agreed that the treasurer spends £300 on publicity with £100 each for posters , leaflets and newspaper advertisements , he should be allowed the latitude to spend £150 on newspaper ads and £150 on leaflets if the publicity chairman thinks it necessary , and perhaps nothing on posters . |
| 3 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 4 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 5 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 6 | If it 's been located I 'll have to get back to London . |
| 7 | If it 's been lost at sea , then why should n't the Iranians believe it ? ’ |
| 8 | And anything that has been done — if it 's been done — has certainly been done accidentally and not intentionally . |
| 9 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |
| 10 | ‘ You ask me if it 's been tough . |
| 11 | Women who have become pregnant and do n't want to have a child — if it 's been a mistake — have been able to have abortions . |
| 12 | If it 's been , if the baby 's sort of squashed |
| 13 | If it 's been cancelled . |
| 14 | It 's a disease which , if it a , they 're fortunate enough to re , recover from the disease , if it 's been severe enough the inflammation may have involved er , some of the cranial nerves , and here we can see a third nerve palsy er as a result of er , the process . |
| 15 | Cos if it 's been advertised and they have n't put in a claim the executors are safe to distribute the estate . |
| 16 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 17 | Cos usually , if it 's been cut off , there 's a about twelve fifty or something , to be reconnected . |
| 18 | The impenetrable lack of doubt in the military mind , he reflected ; if it 's been okayed on the next step up , further question becomes unnecessary . |
| 19 | That you know if it 's been traded fairly . |
| 20 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 21 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 22 | If it 's been handed back I 'll find out where the tomb is . |
| 23 | If it 's been credited , then the only person who will be able to tell you where it comes from is Sesostris . ’ |
| 24 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 25 | You make the pillowcase look as if it 's been washed with Brand X … |
| 26 | And as demand for their meat grows , the breed looks as if it 's been saved by its bacon . |
| 27 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 28 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 29 | if it 's been standing on the floor though , only the top leaves would , I do n't know what to do about having it there though , that 's right above the radiator , it 'll dry it out that 's , that 's why I said |
| 30 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |