Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those rules are not immutable ; at each level , the rules can be bent and perhaps have to be if progress is to be made . |
| 2 | I suppose you have to be if you sleep with an erstwhile nun . |
| 3 | It 's the way we have to be if we 're to survive . |
| 4 | They are less fit than they need to be if they are to become international juniors . |
| 5 | But the government believes that , not least in the light of what is being achieved in other countries , the standards now generally attained by our pupils are neither as good as they can be , nor as good as they need to be if young people are to be equipped for the world of the twenty-first century . |