Example sentences of "if by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read , if by the spirit I am taught , |
| 2 | Could people be made to change their durable possessions as if by the whims of fashion ? |
| 3 | You can surely sympathize with this self-protective caution , even if by the nature of the case you can not wholly share it . |
| 4 | ‘ If by the other , my lady , you refer to the regard the prince and I have for each other , pray be assured it is not pain I feel — but joy , deep joy . |
| 5 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |
| 6 | The faces watched him as he walked half the length of the hut , searchlights following him , and Holly went briskly as if by the speed of his step fourteen years might somehow trickle faster through the future 's fingers . |
| 7 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 8 | If by the late seventies the intellectual arguments of poststructuralism began to seem virtually unanswerable , resistance eventually crystallized around the question of history . |
| 9 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 10 | Er usually if a baby cries it 's usually trying to tell you something er and if , if by the time three or four weeks is up er you , you find out wh wh you know if there is anything wrong . |
| 11 | But this still confirms my point , since such forms spring up and disappear as if by the act of an experimenting ( and frequently unsuccessful ) creator . |
| 12 | She shook her head , as if by the strength of her will she could make it all untrue . |
| 13 | If by the outbreak of the Second World War there existed a substantial body of opinion which looked forward to a fresh approach to economic and social problems , this increasingly influential consensus found its moment with the coming of the war and , in particular , in the atmosphere of national emergency after the evacuation of Dunkirk and the fall of France in 1940 . |
| 14 | Furthermore , if by the nature of the goods and/or the work , any defects therein or any failure thereof to conform as aforesaid does not or would not become apparent ( despite the carrying out of any examination and/or such tests ) until after use we may reject the same even after a reasonable period of use . |
| 15 | [ 4.2 If by the Certificate Date the parties have been unable to agree whether any requirement of the Landlord made pursuant to clause 4.1 is reasonable the matter or matters in dispute shall be referred to a counsel to be agreed upon between the parties or failing agreement within [ 5 ] working days after the Certificate Date to one of the conveyancing counsel for the time being of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [ " Counsel " ] to be nominated on the application of either party by the President for the time being of the Law Society ( or his duly appointed deputy or any other person authorised by him to make appointments on his behalf ) and Counsel shall : |
| 16 | So if by the end of tomorrow we can say yes we 've achieved all that have have we got a course ? |