Example sentences of "if it [be] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This relationship , if it is to be helpful , must be informed , on our part , by an appropriate purpose , knowledge , self-awareness and clear , consistent boundaries . |
| 2 | Any attempt to inject market disciplines must take account of this essential feature of social care ( social work ) if it is to be constructive rather than destructive . |
| 3 | The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task . |
| 4 | If it is to be successful in this objective it needs to articulate much more clearly the rival communitarian philosophy which one senses underpins its practical proposals . |
| 5 | People also need to like advertising if it is to be successful and , again , the results show that people did find the ads funny and enjoyed watching them . |
| 6 | But we are convinced that the housegroup group , if it is to be powerful in building people up for the fight , is the place for this . |
| 7 | To survive , a butterfly must get away from it — at least 25cm away if it is to be certain of living until morning . |
| 8 | Study , if it is to be effective , must be active and critical and not passive . |
| 9 | The exemption is a recognition of the desirability of spontaneity in certain circumstances ; where there are sudden events such as the ‘ release of pollutants , a traffic accident , a shipment of nuclear waste or a visit by a political leader , ’ the response to such events must be immediate if it is to be effective , and the giving of notice is in such circumstances not reasonably practicable . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Negotiation should be a planned activity if it is to be efficient . |
| 12 | If it is to be profitable on the Hong Kong to Macau route , a craft has to operate in darkness as well as during the day . |
| 13 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 14 | This is partly because its product , type , must be familiar if it is to be legible . |
| 15 | There must also be at least one director if the company is private , or two if it is to be public . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 18 | A Lockean ‘ idea ’ is not just what a word stands for if it is to be meaningful . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 21 | ‘ If it 's to be unlawful restraint , I need you . |
| 22 | They 'd need to keep up this standard if it 's to be permanent |
| 23 | that I have downstairs , because it 's , if it was to be computerized , it would be a massive great bloody great volume |
| 24 | Clearly , if it was to be successful in redistributing work , those who controlled the market should be excluded completely or relatively . |
| 25 | for Maxse , Bridgeman , and the great majority of Conservatives between 1906 and 1910 , the party , if it was to be popular , needed to embrace tariff reform and the gamut of policies with which it was linked , such as social reform and land reform . |
| 26 | Hilary Wainwright did begin to raise such questions in stating that truly radical television would have to address the needs of its audience if it was to be able to ‘ imagine the real messy , [ business of socialism ] ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Must not theology , if it were to be possible at all , be established from the other side , by God himself — by the God who makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ rather than the God whom we choose to recognise in him , a God who comes from beyond ourselves to judge , redeem and save ? |
| 29 | If it were to be successful the mental health movement would have to move away from any strong association with welfare . |