Example sentences of "if [noun prp] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've always been forest Romanies , but if Wychwood is to be chopped down Boz and the rest of us will have to take to the road . ’ |
| 2 | That vision could not be put into practice if Highland were to be governed by an authority the size of Belgium . |
| 3 | It was odd , Lucinda thought , that men should be doing a job more suited to women , but this was a real ship , was n't it , on which , if Molly was to be believed , women had yet to establish themselves . |
| 4 | If Bede is to be believed , Oswine proved an attractive ruler who gained the admiration of Aidan , which suggests that Oswiu faced a dangerous rival in this Deiran king whom he eventually out-manoeuvred and slew by treachery the ninth year of the latter 's reign ( HE 111 , 14 ) . |
| 5 | If McKinsey were to be taken literally , this structure would have to be taken apart and new structures created around the business units . |
| 6 | The country 's draft National Forestry Action Plan , drawn up with the help of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , concluded that if Indonesia was to be self-sufficient in wood for its burgeoning paper industry , new pulpwood plantations would have to be developed . |
| 7 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 8 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 9 | Plaice , then , and two helpings — better make it three if Faustina was to be included — perhaps ‘ portions ’ was the word — and some chips . |
| 10 | If Fitzormonde is to be believed , we know the reason for the murders : Burghgesh 's death on that unfortunate ship in the Middle Sea so many years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ If Pinder is to be believed , it was missing at twelve-thirty , ’ said Sergeant Bird , taking a seat as quietly as a man of his bulk could manage . |
| 12 | Angela Cartwright , as chairman of the local Party , explained the procedure for calling a Special General Meeting if Grunte was to be de-selected , and the meeting adjourned after Carole Swan said she would take soundings among members of the Party after the conference . |
| 13 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 14 | Anyway — Fjortoft put in a nice little goal for Norway last night — so if Frank is to be in contention ( ? ) he will have to beat Dino or Wallace for a place during this winter — which is not — that — probable . |
| 15 | So if Zurich is to be the centre of your Swiss exploration , be sure to book a hotel well in advance . |
| 16 | From the outside it looked like a bank ( and with good reason , if Wayne was to be believed : ‘ That guy , ’ Wayne said , ‘ he 's raking it in ’ ) . |
| 17 | Seventy years ago , if Eddington is to be believed , only two people understood the general theory of relativity . |
| 18 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 19 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 20 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 21 | If DCF is to be criticized , it is not the technique which is wrong , but the setting of discount rates which over-discount the future . |
| 22 | Christian priesthood is called to be fully human if God is to be known as fully God . |
| 23 | Prof Friel believes Derry has become a ‘ can do ’ city and that this new-found self-confidence , especially among young people , is essential if Derry is to be recognised as a European city . |
| 24 | He was quite acute , if Amy was to be believed . |
| 25 | He also knew that if Clasper was to be toppled from his influential position as plant convener — which was essential to the long term recovery of the plant — he would have to be seen to be toppled by his own members , acting in their own interests . |
| 26 | If Britain is to be saved from the disaster of Mr Major 's own making , it is the policies as well as the men who will have to go . |
| 27 | It was the British proposals which , as much as anything , stalled Scandinavian discussions on a Nordic common market , for if Britain was to be fortunate in its attempt to forge something beyond the Europe of the Six , the Nordic states would have little choice other than to follow the British lead . |
| 28 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 29 | The rationable behind the development shown in Fig. 1 is that if PHCNs are to be agents of change , then they need appropriately-trained trainers to facilitate their skills development irrespective of whether they are doctors , nurses or professors . |
| 30 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |