Example sentences of "if [pron] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was the best second row forward in England I 'd hope to get into the side , but that 's not the case at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I strolled amongst the boxwood as if I was the keenest of gardeners , taking special interest in the herb banks , the ever-green boxwood , and the multi-coloured flowers where hungry bees searched for honey . |
| 3 | So if you are the best man , you might as well prepare a few words . |
| 4 | ‘ If you are the best then obviously we want the best , especially as Señorita Howard will not move without you . |
| 5 | But if you are the slightest bit interested in this symphony you simply must hear it , and not only because it was recorded only months after première performances conducted by Mravinsky himself . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're the best lay the platoon has to offer , I can only hope the Germans win this bloody war . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Frankly , if you can cook like this I do n't care if you 're the greatest lady criminal of all time . ’ |
| 8 | Ernie never wins , but if you 're the oldest musher in the business , who cares ! ! |
| 9 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 10 | They all come in and tell us we 're the busiest and I say well if we 're the busiest , God help those that 're the quietest . |
| 11 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 12 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 13 | Do come up for a day or so if there is the remotest possible chance . |
| 14 | Other members of her family are also asked the same questions , and if there is the slightest discrepancy it can be used as proof that she is not the person she claims to be . |
| 15 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 16 | The only fact of a similar kind of which I am aware , is the constant asserted difference — between the wolf-like Fox of East & West Falkland Islds. — If there is the slightest foundations for these remarks the zoology of Archipelagos — will be well worth examining ; for such facts [ would — ( inserted ) ] undermine the stability of species . ’ |
| 17 | There 's no question that the high heels and blusher go on if there 's the slightest chance that they 'll do any good . |
| 18 | And call me at once if there 's the slightest change in the weather . ’ |
| 19 | Organised team games like soft-ball or squash hold small attraction even if there was the remotest chance of being selected for the team . |
| 20 | She wondered if there was the faintest chance of impressing them with the significance of her position . |
| 21 | It would have been impossible to get her to eat if there was the slightest bit of tension in her . |
| 22 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 23 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |
| 24 | Lydia was not exactly terrified , but she was sitting very , very still so that if there was the slightest noise she could be quite certain that it was not she who had caused it . |
| 25 | Cleo realised she was frightened , but if there was the slightest possibility she could catch sight of Inky 's shade , she was prepared to risk whatever might happen over the next few hours . |
| 26 | If there was the slightest breeze from any direction the smoke would spread itself evenly between chimney and room in more or less equal proportions , which was why the once white walls had the appearance of very old ivory and the mounted fox heads , hunting trophies which hung on the walls , had a fine coating of brown dust , and their yellow eyes a slightly inebriated , glazed expression . |
| 27 | ‘ Nah — even if there was the slightest chance he 'd fall for me , it would n't work . |
| 28 | If there was the slightest risk of what one revealed in the process becoming known to others … . |
| 29 | Yet if there was the slightest chance of the offer being genuine , how he would leap at it ! |
| 30 | If it is the best that they can do , then their actions are skilful in the sense that they are produced in milliseconds , and that they are spontaneous , automatic , and unrehearsed . |