Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] there be to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Virtually everyone agrees that if there is to be any military action in Bosnia it must be accompanied by a congressional resolution .
2 In fact , I go further than this and argue that if there is to be public criteria , there must be other selves .
3 The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns .
4 We therefore feel it is absolutely vital that if there is to be a new settlement , it should come forward through the structure plan .
5 Thirdly , there is a concern to explain to the Community that if there are to be compensations , we can not create a whole new system of compensatory payments which will last for ever at a price which will never be able to be paid .
6 However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks .
7 Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet .
8 If not , and if there are to be individual assessments of the criteria , will the Foreign Secretary assure the House that if Germany decides that the criteria have been met and recognises the republics but Britain decides that the criteria have not been met , the United Kingdom will reserve the right not to recognise the republics ?
9 It is a threat because the Government have sat back willingly and said that they do not care if another 30 million tonnes of coal is taken out of the take and if there are to be gas-fired power stations .
10 If there is to be intelligence there must be memory , and if there is to be memory there must be a permanent , ordered structure to which each of the individual units is uniquely linked .
11 During my forthcoming Presidential Year it is my belief , as I know it is yours , that the Institute should and shall continue to look forward into the 90s and beyond and if there is to be a theme , it should quite simply be ‘ The Institute ’ .
12 A court order enables either party to go back to the court if unreasonable delay in carrying out the terms of the order is experienced , and if there is to be a conveyance of the matrimonal home following an agreement between the husband and the wife ( not incorporated into a court order ) it is always open to either party to make application to the court at any time .
13 But if there is to be a new morality — new values for the new situation resulting from technological and political change in the closing years of the twentieth century — then the creation of that new morality must in the end be a joint enterprise of both women and men .
14 But if there is to be an Oxford mafia in Washington , it wo n't be the first time former University College students have made history .
15 That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators .
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