Example sentences of "if he [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's as if he 's possessed by some Looney Tune demon .
2 Chap 's got to get out , if he 's used to fresh air .
3 ‘ ( 1 ) Subject to the following provisions of this section , a child who is being looked after by a local authority may not be placed , and , if placed , may not be kept , in accommodation provided for the purpose of restricting liberty ( ‘ secure accommodation ’ ) unless it appears — ( a ) that — ( i ) he has a history of absconding and is likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ; and ( ii ) if he absconds , he is likely to suffer significant harm ; or ( b ) that if he is kept in any other description of accommodation he is likely to injure himself or other persons .
4 As the future of manufacturing investment depends on confidence in future economic performance , does my right hon. Friend think that anyone contemplating what will happen to his income will feel more confident if he is threatened with slow torture rather than immediate amputation ?
5 If he is convicted of this crime [ this ] punishment follows : the loss of members , that there be member for member for when a virgin is defiled she loses her member and therefore let her defiler be punished in the parts in which he offended .
6 Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life .
7 The plaintiff 's feelings may be wounded if he is subjected to aggressive cross-examination , especially if it is designed to support what transpires to be an unsuccessful plea of justification , so this forensic factor may be brought into account .
8 An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months .
9 And if he was engaged on some scheme of his own , she had better leave him to pursue it without interference .
10 If he was hurt at all , it was but a minor hurt — he walked where he was led . ’
11 If he was attacked in public , people would be scandalised .
12 Spooks in films could pass unrecognized through airports , and North sometimes gave out instructions that if he was spotted at such-and-such a place , he should not be acknowledged .
13 And what if their occupants were already walking among us , keeping cautiously in the background to avoid notice and suspicion , just as twentieth-century man would need to do if he were thrust into another , and potentially hostile , age .
14 Because the State er if he were covered for twenty six weeks full pay
15 He is human and so is she and all the marriage certificates in the world would not keep him faithful if he were tempted in those circumstances . ’
16 And if he were propelled by such categorical imperative to fail , he could not reek loveableness out of every pore …
17 In short , he is not frivolous enough for me : if he were soaked in boiling water …
18 It would be hard to give a satisfactory explanation if he were found in that part of the house so late at night .
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