Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend . |
| 2 | Will be paid if you are required to be at work over the lunch period ( ie 1200 – 1400 ) and there is no Council establishment at which a lunch could be obtained . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 're determined to be so pigheadedly stubborn and blind to the truth , so be it . ’ |
| 4 | At Liverpool clubs , the toilets are full of catsuited girls who look at you as if you 're rumoured to be a child molester . |
| 5 | This woman/man is not my life , but if we are meant to be together , we will be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 8 | It 's fine if they 're proved to be guilty , otherwise it 's police harassment . |
| 9 | Such thoughts should help them to understand how attitudes , right or wrong , can persist unchanged for endless generations if they are taught to be dictated by unassailable imaginary ‘ gods ’ who are never ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 10 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 11 | Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog . |
| 12 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 13 | Food premises will have to be registered so that they may be inspected and action taken if they are considered to be a health risk . |
| 14 | Whilst showing proper reluctance to enforce these convenants , the courts will , however , do so if they are shown to be reasonable … |
| 15 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
| 16 | The largest accounting firms could be on the receiving end of proposed new penalties to prevent abuse of market power including fines of up to 10% of turnover — if they are found to be using predatory pricing . |
| 17 | If they are encouraged to be analytical in a positive and practical sense they will be more able to take a longer-term and reforming perspective . |
| 18 | Also the cohabitation ruling makes it difficult for a woman who is on supplementary benefit to have a relationship with a man without becoming financially dependent upon him , since her benefit will be stopped if they are deemed to be cohabiting . |
| 19 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 20 | after that , and then this , the fans must have wondered if they were destined to be watching a nil-nil draw . |
| 21 | The New York Times of Nov. 19 reported that the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps had recently issued a new ruling requiring all its graduates to sign an affidavit saying that they were liable to be discharged and forced to pay back their scholarship if they were discovered to be homosexual . |
| 22 | They might get at least some credit if they were seen to be laying better long-term foundations for the economy . |
| 23 | In a recent report , the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution concluded that potatoes , for example , might become troublesome weeds if they were engineered to be tolerant of frosts , blight and herbicides . |
| 24 | Well , when Wyn had his stethoscope in his ears I wondered if they were meant to be him . |
| 25 | The ruling effectively voided the British legal notion of the " discretionary " life sentence , under which the Home Office had the power to extend prisoners ' actual terms in gaol , or detain them again after an initial release ( known as " release under licence " ) if they were deemed to be a danger to society . |
| 26 | Agency findings could be set aside if they were found to be ‘ arbitrary , capricious or an abuse of discretion . ’ |
| 27 | Many problems which we are prepared to treat as bipolar have ramifications which could be taken into account if they were thought to be as important as the impact of the decision on the two contestants . |
| 28 | Such contributions are not in themselves illegal , but they would be if they were judged to be bribes . |
| 29 | Throughout the early reports there is a constant emphasis on the level and content of the work , in an obvious attempt to stress that adults in ‘ deprived ’ areas are capable of undertaking sustained , demanding education if it is seen to be relevant to their needs . |
| 30 | On the other hand if it is perceived to be temporary , the effects on the supply of labour in the short run are likely to be substantial . |