Example sentences of "if that be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ I said , ‘ I think there 'll be trouble about this , but if that 's the position , carry on . ’ |
| 2 | But , if that 's the case , why was the deal handled in such a sly and back-handed manner ? |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if that 's the way you want it . |
| 4 | ‘ If that 's the way you take it , ’ Arty said , ‘ I 'll just have to leave it all to the ould fellow . ’ |
| 5 | Last night an executive director of Bond Corp , Peter Lucas , attacked the NAB move : ‘ If that 's the way business can expect bankers to behave , God help Australia . ’ |
| 6 | If that 's the case , of course I understand . |
| 7 | The Death of Klinghoffer , with music ( if that 's the word ) by John Adams , had its European premiere in Brussels last year . |
| 8 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 9 | ‘ If that 's the way you want it well stop . |
| 10 | ‘ If that 's the case I 'll stay out longer than I 'd planned , and do you a favour ! ’ |
| 11 | He used to think five was enough , but acquired an additional one after Raymond wisecracked , ‘ If that 's the charcoal grey worsted , it must be Tuesday . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If that 's the way you want to play it , fair enough . |
| 13 | If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , aye , if that 's the Feltons you want there are a number of men in the family . |
| 15 | Its main flying boat aerodrome ( if that 's the right word ) was on the Solent , near Hythe , but Imperial Airways also ran to a number of other places around Britain , including the Pool of London . |
| 16 | Fine , if that 's the way you want to play it . |
| 17 | ‘ Waste your money on lawyers if that 's the way you want it , ’ he retorted . |
| 18 | So it was that Ms Wainwright found herself manhandling ( if that 's the word ) the seven-by-four polystyrene boards across the frozen Alaskan wastes , often in the teeth of gale force winds and in temperatures down to -40°C . |
| 19 | ‘ If that 's the case , the saboteur would n't have walked back to Cartier but up to some vantage point from where he could watch the smash . ’ |
| 20 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 21 | We had a good Christian upbringing , and I know I ought to condemn him if that 's the case , but I do n't . |
| 22 | If that 's the case , then you 're not a band . |
| 23 | As well buy a packet of itching powder and a backscratcher , if that 's the kind of satisfaction you want . |
| 24 | If that 's the big success that everyone predicts , Donington could keep the European Grand Prix and emerge as a rival to Silverstone when the latter 's contract for the British Grand Prix runs out in l996 . |
| 25 | Then he mumbled , ‘ Well , if that 's the way you want it . ’ |
| 26 | So I said , ‘ Well , if that 's the case , I 'm going straight to the President/Prime Minister/ Foreign Secretary/First Lord , etc. , to say So-and-So wo n't do what I ask , so I 'm not prepared to carry on and here 's my resignation . ' ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If that 's the kind of bloody fool that runs this country , ’ he muttered to himself , ‘ Gawd help us . ’ |
| 28 | Siegel said softly , ‘ If that 's the case , let's hope there is something in his life that he would miss too much to let it go so easily … ’ |
| 29 | In a series of assaults on Scotland 's natural heritage laws the Scottish Office , and Scottish Secretary Ian Lang , have succeeded in overturning the presumption of protection for Sites of Special Scientific Interest , creating instead new ‘ natural heritage areas ’ which will be protected — if that 's the right word — by voluntary agreements . |
| 30 | If that 's the case , I suggest anyone in the past who flunked an O-level exam writes to these people to demand that their E and F failures be upgraded to passes , with honours . |