Example sentences of "if it be raining " in BNC.
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| 1 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 2 | It may not sound much , but if it is raining and you are wet and tired , it becomes a big job . |
| 3 | Undercover displays if it is raining . |
| 4 | So is what is sometimes called an open conditional : If it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 5 | Again , we assert it since we accept ( i ) an independent nomic conditional roughly to the effect that in the world as it is , and within certain large limits as it might be , if it is raining and certain other things are the case , then the balcony is wet , and we also accept ( ii ) that those other things are the case . |
| 6 | It follows that if it is raining then the balcony is wet . |
| 7 | What is the explanation of why I am right to conclude , as I am , that if it is raining and certain other things are true , the balcony is wet and , in brief , that it would be wet no matter what else were true ? |
| 8 | In this table , p(l) is the probability that if it is raining today ( time t ) it will be raining tomorrow ( time t + 1 ) , while p(2) is the probability that if it is raining today it will be dry tomorrow . |
| 9 | In this table , p(l) is the probability that if it is raining today ( time t ) it will be raining tomorrow ( time t + 1 ) , while p(2) is the probability that if it is raining today it will be dry tomorrow . |
| 10 | There is a methadone clinic nearby and on Saturday morning , if it 's raining , junkies , too , meet under the Romanesque arches . |
| 11 | If it 's raining in the afternoon there will be a table tennis tournament . |
| 12 | If it 's raining , aerobics will be followed by table tennis and craft work . |
| 13 | Even if it 's raining and even if you have no stomach to work ? |
| 14 | Does " If it 's raining the balcony is wet " mean , in however large a tolerable sense , something about other conditions-say the absence of a canopy over the balcony and so on ? |
| 15 | That there was no canopy may be part of why I say that if it 's raining the balcony is wet , but it is not part of what I say . |
| 16 | Whether we could look at our contract and see if this could be because mentioned about grass on the pavements , not only is it the machine that 's doing that , but there 's a danger to young children from the machines they 're using and elderly people with pavements being very very slippery once they 're doing the grass if it 's raining . |
| 17 | If it 's sunny , fine , and if it 's raining , it 's a chore to walk the dogs . |
| 18 | driveways , it was pouring down with rain one day so I was going up to meet her and we , I 'd got up there , I 've learnt now , I leave home at quarter past three if it 's raining |
| 19 | Well if it 's raining and stuff yeah . |
| 20 | if it 's raining tomorrow yeah |
| 21 | ‘ Did you hear that Steve , they would n't say the opposite if it was raining . ’ |
| 22 | If it was raining , a handbell rung at the door indicated that we were to go straight to the classrooms . |
| 23 | I would say , ‘ 74D in for refreshments ’ — recorded in a book and in that half hour , I had to make my tea , eat my sandwiches , wash my cup , put on my coat or whatever I was wearing — cape if it was raining — and be out for that half hour . |
| 24 | Well I suppose if it was raining one night she might have done . |
| 25 | Consider also the statement that ( B ) if it were raining , the balcony would be wet . |
| 26 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |
| 27 | One source of this theory , to continue in terms of the example , is the truth that if it were raining , more other things would be different than that the balcony was wet . |
| 28 | Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ? |
| 29 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 30 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |