Example sentences of "if [noun sg] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have to gain their support , if change is to be brought about . ’ |
| 2 | At a not-much-reported occasion in north Berwick last Friday night , the right hon. and learned Member for Pentlands made a speech of an accomplished delphic nature in which he said that , if change were to be allowed , independence would be the least advantageous change . |
| 3 | Yet understanding where older customers fit in to the scheme of things is very important if discrimination is to be avoided , because it will influence both the products and the marketing approach . |
| 4 | If inequality is to be reduced , so the argument goes , capitalism must be either abandoned or at the very least changed radically . |
| 5 | If provision is to be made ( Clause 20.02.5 ) for retentions from the amount due on account of tax liabilities or compensation for damage caused to the firm by the outgoing partner ( a somewhat controversial matter , but one which might be considered , for example , in relation to increased indemnity insurance premiums becoming payable by the continuing partners as a result of the negligence of the outgoing partner ) the terms must be set out with clarity . |
| 6 | Irrespective of this , theories and assumptions must be stated and analysis be rigorous if progress is to be made . |
| 7 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 8 | Those rules are not immutable ; at each level , the rules can be bent and perhaps have to be if progress is to be made . |
| 9 | ‘ Shared Training is essential if progress is to be made towards achieving the vision ’ , of a seamless service . |
| 10 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 11 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , if counsel is to be briefed for the hearing he should settle the pleading , and for that matter , the letter before action . |
| 13 | If faith is to be solidly grounded at all , it must rest on some more secure foundation than that . |
| 14 | If communism was to be contained , then the economic weaknesses and poverty which could help it to develop in Western Europe had to be removed . |
| 15 | If unity were to be achieved , a different path had to be sought . |
| 16 | Given the width of the ambit of these basic provisions , it would be surprising if Parliament is to be taken to have intended to limit the sections now under consideration as Hambros Jersey contended . |
| 17 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 18 | Richmondshire District Council said it was forced to bring in charges if money was to be found to maintain existing car parks and create new ones . |
| 19 | Kalim Siddiqui , the outspoken leader of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ , also agreed that wider forces had to be tackled if racism was to be stamped out . |
| 20 | Here a change of social circumstances would be needed if vulnerability were to be reduced . |
| 21 | Lastly , if opposition is to be maintained , there will be the action of retaining and briefing counsel and arranging for evidence to be given before the commissioners . |
| 22 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |
| 23 | It is especially essential that those who are responsible for implementation must have a thoroughgoing commitment to change if research is to be anything other than counterproductive ’ ( Engel 1977:176 ) . |
| 24 | Sociological research , like all scientific enquiry is fundamentally prompted by simple human curiosity , an indispensable quality if research is to be both successful and enjoyable . |
| 25 | This framework must change if action is to be effective . |
| 26 | If force was to be " used , it would be with the authorization of the full chain of command to Allied Forces Headquarters . |
| 27 | If cycling is to be made a safer and more attractive mode of transport , it is , as Hudson 's classic book has advocated , essential that planning principles are established and followed . |
| 28 | If antiracism is to be effective in education , it is therefore necessary to take a hard and perhaps painful look at the terms under which we have operated so far . |
| 29 | If guidance were to be sought in matters which hovered on the boundary between the two , it was likely that the church would be seen by people and politicians as authoritative in resolving the issue . |
| 30 | But a degree of independence and impartiality will have to be achieved if re-investigation is to be beneficial . |