Example sentences of "if it is indeed " in BNC.

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1 If it is indeed to be a land battle , that inevitably bloody affair will with luck be fast-moving , and people will see it as a struggle fought with a clear aim against an obdurate enemy and plainly moving towards an allied victory .
2 If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ?
3 This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes .
4 They find this view ‘ alarming ’ since ‘ if it is indeed the case that intellectual resources of Savage and Modern minds are essentially equivalent [ then ] what legitimises the extraordinary efforts and resources that go into compulsory schooling ? ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) .
5 " If it is indeed lost at sea , then I fear for your future .
6 If it is indeed the case that time is used least economically in those subjects to which most time is allocated ( see Table 4.1 ) , should not schools , LEAs ( and indeed the NCC and DES ) took afresh at their assumptions about how much time these subjects ( that is , the National Curriculum core subjects ) really need ?
7 Since reading aloud primes subsequent tachistoscopic recognition , the semantic system ( if it is indeed the locus of priming effects ) must be playing a part in tachistoscopic recognition ; from which it follows that prior use of that system in responding to a definition should also prime tachistoscopic recognition .
8 ‘ Well , if it is indeed she , ’ came another , harder voice , ‘ I can only say that Rose Alderley is most tiresome .
9 Mr Harold Macmillan was admittedly fortified by an informal poll of Conservative members and notables , but it may be argued that he should not have been the sole fountainhead of advice , if it is indeed a constitutional principle that a retiring Prime Minister has no special title or status to advise on the choice of his successor .
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