Example sentences of "if [ex0] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The local economy may derive benefits from this brain drain , even sufficient to offset the costs , if there is seen to be fair competition between the TNCs and the indigenous firms for trained managerial , technical and craft personnel .
2 ‘ Sorry , but if there is going to be a financial crash , the first instinct is survival . ’
3 One is that , if there is going to be a high level of unemployment because productivity is rising faster than output , this means that the cost of goods and services is falling fast and either consumer demand is not increasing fast enough or industry can not gear up production fast enough to create the demanded extra output .
4 Compared to the highly controversial solution Telecom is going for , it looks as if there is going to be a difference of about £17m between locating at Montrose House and building on the Ballsbridge site .
5 You see if There is going to be a war , and God 's people had also to be warriors and so there was that element of religion as well that that we had to be trained as warriors for the Lord .
6 I am not going to write to the Colleges themselves one week with bureaucratic non-talk and then come into the clear the following week … if there is going to be an outburst I believe the sooner we get it over the better .
7 If there is going to be a change of time signature prepare it by making a bridge passage , so that the new beat is clearly signalled and the transition is easy .
8 So if there is going to be trouble it will come from the rear .
9 There are opportunities for development in the Swindon front garden , in the Chippenham front garden , the Devizes front garden , wherever , and it is my belief that since this county council originally purchased those farms , and have since maintained them , that if there is going to be a development windfall , then that should accrue to this county council and not to Thamesdown or whoever else it happens to be .
10 If there are thought to be sufficient similarities between the markets in two or more countries , comparisons can be made of selected statistics from each .
11 If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index .
12 If there are going to be two desks we need one member of staff on each desk .
13 Budget maximization is a very risky strategy to adopt if there are going to be budget cuts .
14 So I , if there are going to be changes in French erm France 's relations with its neighbours within the E E C , erm I do n't see that they can be very quick , and I do n't see that they can ultimately be all that large .
15 Of course in high season we do have to ask for a bit extra if there 's going to be empty space in your place , but for all departures before May 31st and after October 1st there are NO UNDER-OCCUPANCY SUPPLEMENTS in selected accommodation .
16 ‘ Well , one thing 's for sure , if there 's going to be another saviour it wo n't be a Jew ! ’
17 But , I think that if there 's going to be any assessment at all I think that 's quite a fair form of it .
18 I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money .
19 I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness .
20 I was going to speak in terms of numbers George it was just a wee thought that if there 's going to be three or four of them we want at least eight of us if not it 's gon na be a bit
21 Let me add here erm I do n't want to say that we will duplicate what is happening , but if there 's going to be any reform to be done it is open and you can introduce reform into our constitution once you have the parliament back again and the Emir and such reform can be introduced .
22 The red stripe on the file was attached only if there was believed to be a risk of escape .
23 If there was going to be a bid , I wanted to make sure we would have a place at the negotiating table , ’ he says .
24 If there was going to be trouble — serious trouble — then , they 'd know about it .
25 Well , that night everyone went to sleep because if there was going to be a wedding everybody in the village would surely have to go .
26 I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice .
27 If there was going to be trouble , she might as well make herself as comfortable as possible .
28 At either stage , if there was considered to be a problem , then it was noted for later discussion .
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