Example sentences of "if it be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 2 | The fact that the media regularly confront their audience with discourse and images about gays requires that a vocabulary for dealing with such awkwardnesses be discovered , even if it be the lexicon of bigotry and stereotype . |
| 3 | Again , so far as the language of the statute is concerned , I can see no reason in principle why the constable in the course of explaining to the driver his rights under section 8(2) should not tell him , if it be the case , that he , the constable , will require the replacement specimen to be of blood . |
| 4 | If it be the case that a decision on the amount to offer can be made now , then the offer should be made , either extrajudicially or by Tender . |
| 5 | The making of the assessment of damages in the light of all facts known at the date of the trial enables the court to take into account , if it be the case , the fact that the consequences of the plaintiff 's injuries were more serious than at first thought ; the fact that the expenses to which the plaintiff would be put in consequence of his injuries were higher than was first thought ; the fact that the plaintiff has died ; or the fact that the plaintiff has , since the accident , volunteered to be made redundant . |
| 6 | If it is the latter , the aircraft is unserviceable and must not be flown until the brakes have been re-adjusted . |
| 7 | If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing . |
| 8 | ‘ Soldiers from Stirling would have come by Crieff and Amulree , or if it is the Perth lot , then by Dunkeld and the lower strath . ’ |
| 9 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 10 | If it is the defining error or empiricism to assume that only statements meant to be checked up on deserve serious attention , it is the defining error or the new French criticism ( Foucault , Piaget , Barthes , Derrida and others ) to assume that because some statements can not be verified , no statements can , and hence that all statements rail to refer , leaving us with discourse — language without anchorage in time , psyche or history . |
| 11 | ‘ If it is the intestine which is infected , the infection is transient and will not reach inside the egg , ’ he said . |
| 12 | If it is the sort of society that survives , it will react like this . |
| 13 | Where these members were built into the original construction , such problems would be less likely , but the causes of defects and deterioration associated with bressummers should be identified , particularly if it is the intention to increase loads upon these elements . |
| 14 | If it is the latter , then the BCS must revamp its qualifications , to attract the new membership . |
| 15 | If it is the woman 's , it comes under the husband 's control , in spite of anything you say to the contrary . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 17 | But we could well encounter sales resistance if it is the biggest . |
| 18 | Each department acts as if it is the purchaser of another department 's production and then ‘ sells ’ on materials that it has processed for the next stage of production . |
| 19 | If it is the postman , introduce them ; let him know this man represents no threat . |
| 20 | A confession will now be excluded if it is the result of ‘ oppression ’ or if it is the consequence of ‘ anything said or done which was likely , in the circumstances existing at the time , to render [ it ] unreliable ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 21 | A confession will now be excluded if it is the result of ‘ oppression ’ or if it is the consequence of ‘ anything said or done which was likely , in the circumstances existing at the time , to render [ it ] unreliable ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 22 | But , as already suggested , if it is the police who are doing the tapping what is the prospect of effective steps to stop it ? |
| 23 | I mean , okay if it is the kid — the gardener said a pile of comics and old coke tins — but if it 's a six-foot tramp with a ten-year-old IQ I might look a bit silly asking him about his home life . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But — but if it is the tramp — if he 's still there — ? ’ |
| 25 | If pre-baiting is carried out conscientiously , bream can be taught to take practically any edible matter , but there is little chance of success if almost all other anglers on that water are using something else , especially if it is the same alternative food . |
| 26 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 27 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 28 | Crisis Loans — these interest free loans may be made if it is the only way of avoiding serious risk to the health and safety of you or your family . |
| 29 | It may also be possible to compare these early drawings with a still existing building on the same site , to determine if it is the same structure , and , if so , if any general exterior modifications have been made . |
| 30 | What if it is the wrong one ? |