Example sentences of "be [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 2 | Consumers are rarely if ever directly represented in Joint planning and as a right . |
| 3 | Yet that would not have been enough if President Bush had not thrown away the election and the keys to the White House with it . |
| 4 | The company is claiming damages against Mr Carr , and enough damages from AY to ‘ put it in the same position it would have been in if AY had done the work it contracted to do competently ’ . |
| 5 | Under the common law , the measure of damages for a breach of warranty will be to put the purchaser in the position it would have been in if all the warranties had been true . |
| 6 | However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA . |
| 7 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 8 | In the early days , they simply challenged the notion of " excessive trade competition " and were not " prepared to admit that there has been much if any reduction in the price paid [ elsewhere ] for good bookwork , which has always formed the staple of the Edinburgh trade " . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it would costs a small fortune to equip yourself with a full set of stainless steel tools , although these are best if you can afford them . |
| 10 | Wall lights are best if they are directional and used to bounce light off a ceiling or floor , or to light a picture or piece of wall . |
| 11 | Nozick , for example , formulates an entitlement theory of justice , in which a person 's property holdings are just if they are acquired through some just act of original acquisition or by some just transfer . |
| 12 | If the roundabout suggests that the road you 're on is a fairly wide road and the road you 're exiting on is a fairly narrow road it will normally indicate you 're going from probably a duel carriageway , which you know you 're on if you 're already on it , but the road you 're entering might not be . |
| 13 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 14 | but if once you can see it as a pattern , all this lot fit together and you 're not If you learn those four reactions separately a month apart or something yeah ? |
| 15 | And it seems to me that this Policy E two is not in line with with strategic guidance and if you 're not if you 're having that are there some special circumstances that mean that you have to explain particularly what it is that you you have to do . |
| 16 | Cos they 're like if you like . |
| 17 | The advantage of those Diazepam is , they 're there if you need them . |
| 18 | I 'll sha n't think that you 're there if you do , go on |
| 19 | And erm on a job er on on an English railway starting with starting a factory out there and they are going to manage it she 's worried stiff you see because she says now er , Germany and Holland are starting to move in the recession and once they 're there if the recession comes they 'll tack up her husband immediately |
| 20 | ‘ And any such deals are off if the Iranians suspect the DGSE of a double-cross ? ’ |
| 21 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 22 | He says that he would not get on so well with her if he had his meals with her , but as he lives quite separately they are very friendly and he likes to know that they are near if he wants company . ’ |
| 23 | There are two general assumptions which seem to be widely if not universally accepted as self-evident . |
| 24 | ‘ But the pictures wo n't be on if there is n't any electricity ! ’ |
| 25 | No it wo n't be on if if we use this as the document |
| 26 | Of the remaining two , one should be on if there is a dog on the retinal image . |
| 27 | The other should be on if the image includes a lamp post . |
| 28 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 29 | Ignoring the 1 's , the centre pixel was then to be ON if the sum of 2 's exceeded the number of 0's , OFF if it was less . |
| 30 | Currently this may seem unacceptable as well as unlikely , but may no longer be so if Israel itself experiences military and economic recession . |