Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [be] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 2 | They do not speak about electrons and their states of motion as if they were to be taken less seriously than , say , billiard balls or elephants . |
| 3 | Then she buried her head in the pillow and the tears came and came , flowing out of her as if there was to be no end to them , ever . |
| 4 | On the 13th , MacDonald had noted in his diary that Cabinet-making looked ‘ as if it is to be the most horrible job of my life . |
| 5 | For much of Act I , too , Jonathan Summers 's Posa seemed as if it was to be a rough-and-ready performance by this gifted baritone . |
| 6 | ‘ You ate that as if it was to be your last meal on earth . ’ |
| 7 | A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful . |