Example sentences of "if [pron] be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll tell me if I am not bowling well enough to make the Test side , or if he thinks Phil Tufnell will be best suited if we need only one spinner . |
| 2 | I was not very grateful I am afraid , because I should be most surprised if I am not accepted . |
| 3 | If I am not mistaken , Davis was fielding at the time of his injury , and while one must concede that the wearing of helmets by batsmen , though hideous , is permissible , their use in the field is surely unacceptable and should be banned . |
| 4 | And there , if I am not mistaken , is the ignoramus who was so aggressively rude to us at Al Forno . ’ |
| 5 | You are , if I am not mistaken , twenty-five years old , which is an age when , I am well aware , you could still meet and fall in love with a far younger man than I. However , from what you have told me , you have already given away your heart and have set aside any thought of another such love . |
| 6 | ‘ A man with much on his shoulders , if I am not mistaken . |
| 7 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
| 8 | And if I am not mistaken you could see share prices really motoring after that . |
| 9 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 10 | ‘ I love you dearly and I love the house but I could n't live here if I am not wanted . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But if I am not fit it effects my batting , bowling and fielding . ’ |
| 13 | I may prefer that people should not be malicious about me behind my back , even if I am not to know or even be affected by it , and that certain deathbed wishes of mine be carried out without supposing I will persist to be affected by them . |
| 14 | ‘ I tend to drift around in it , if I am not concentrating . |
| 15 | If I am not held up too much , I will gladly give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 16 | If I am not picked to play football I will probably play hockey . |
| 17 | I felt I must keep a very firm hold on myself if I were not to lose control altogether . |
| 18 | We were now climbing fairly steeply into the mountains and silence was impossible if I were not to lose my quarry . |
| 19 | 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time . |
| 20 | IF I WAS not writing about dancers , I would love to write about horses . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 22 | ‘ So just make sure you get the bastard if I 'm not given the chance to do the job myself . ’ |
| 23 | If I 'm not getting what I 'm supposed to , I 'll start . |
| 24 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to have to leave soon if I 'm not to miss my plane , ’ she said . |
| 27 | If I 'm not teaching I 'm marking in th to actually get a lecture through cos I was given this with about a weeks ' notice you see , so I did n't have a chance to prepare the stuff for this course other than as we go along Right ? |
| 28 | ‘ I can carry on here with Helen 's assistance — that is , if I 'm not called away , ’ Joanna said , but she had no sooner spoken than the telephone rang . |
| 29 | Alright , listen to this if I 'm not taping it then . |
| 30 | Yes , if I 'm not using the grill I take it out . |