Example sentences of "[coord] if [pron] [be] to be " in BNC.

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2 Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together .
3 But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he .
4 The concerns that have been expressed outside the park committees need to be fully voiced within them if the committees are to decide in the best interests of the parks and their purposes , and if they are to be seen to do so .
5 Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind .
6 Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books .
7 There was probably no ( easy ) alternative to the use of temporary workers ; and if they were to be employed , at least such workers should otherwise have the same rights as regular workers .
8 With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . "
9 People were poor ; even the better-off worked grinding hours on their farms , and if anything was to be fussed over , it was the old people or the children .
10 She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider .
11 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 ?
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ’ .
15 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 .
16 All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will …
17 A cat is a carnivore and if it is to be kept as a pet it must be given a carnivorous diet .
18 If a tax is to be fair , if it is to have the support of the people and if it is to be collectable , it must be based on the fundamental principle of ability to pay .
19 Bonfire night is one of those traditions that we perpetuate and if it is to be perpetuated , then go to organized bonfires .
20 The GREY program has automatic intensity adjustment and if it were to be useful would need to be modified to provide a user override , at least during development of the measuring technique .
21 ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’
22 He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means .
23 calling for his immediate release , and if he is to be charged , given a fair and prompt trial ;
24 ‘ He is remarkably well handicapped on 10st four , and if he were to be handicapped again he would go up another stone .
25 Could you tell me what is the policy of your party on this matter and if you were to be elected to power at the next election what would your party do ?
26 I have not heard of such an initiative , but if one were to be promulgated by the Community , we would consider it carefully .
27 But if we are to be fixed to the Deutschmark , that should be an agreed and acknowledged policy .
28 But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face .
29 The numbers mentioned above are very small , but if they were to be multiplied hundreds and hundreds of times across the nation they would become enormous .
30 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 .
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