Example sentences of "if [pron] [modal v] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just if she 'll , you know , just if she could be friends with me still , you know , and that ? |
| 2 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 3 | The idea dates from the 1950s , when it looked as if there would be plutonium left over from the fast-breeder reactors that were being planned — reactors which could produce more plutonium than they consumed . |
| 4 | It all seemed a bit twee ; I wondered somewhat cynically if there would be signs saying Does and Bucks on the dormitory doors . ) |
| 5 | It would suit the purposes of the programme if there would be snow on the ground when the film unit arrived in November . |
| 6 | I was just wondering if there would be time to fetch you down here before lunch . |
| 7 | Pushing its head out of the way , I thrust the flambeau into its stall , to see if there might be kerosene or paraffin stored there , or at least a good stack of hay . |
| 8 | If there can be difficulties in finding the main entrance then make the erection of helpful direction signs a priority . |
| 9 | If there must be compromise because people are divided about justice , then the compromise must be external , not internal ; it must be compromise about which scheme of justice to adopt rather than a compromised scheme of justice . |
| 10 | If there should be trees out there , swaying in the wind , then he would know that he had lost all sense of time and place and personal identity . |
| 11 | He never knew if there should be carbon there or not . |
| 12 | It is as if they might be responses to requests to " write up " exchanged conversation and counsel — some are lyrics and short prose poems on the nature of contemplative life . |
| 13 | It is a well-established phenomenon that nonwords which sound like actual words ( known as " pseudo-homophones " ) tend to gain slower responses than those which look as if they may be words , but do not sound like any . |
| 14 | A DEC spokesman said that everything was in the early stages , and that he would n't like to comment on numbers — not even the 6,000 proposed lay-offs , although software engineering staff would be among the casualties , he also could n't say if they would be part of the wave of redundancies mentioned above . |
| 15 | Somehow she could never hear disembodied footsteps on the stairs without wondering fleetingly if it might be Mark returning as unexpectedly as he had left . |
| 16 | Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in . |
| 17 | The clerk inquired delicately if it would be cash or charge . |
| 18 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 19 | She wondered if he might be Jeffrey Archer in disguise doing his research . |
| 20 | He had a stillness , as if he might be stone , or stuffed , or dead . |
| 21 | I wonder if he can be Cornelius Fennell , the art collector . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , Sir John , like you I wondered if he could be Burghgesh 's son . |