Example sentences of "if they [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Burns lowered his voice , as if they might be overheard . |
| 2 | Stroud and Evans are waiting to hear if they 'll be given leave to appeal . |
| 3 | This morning they expect to hear if they 'll be offered professional terms . |
| 4 | Churches were burned , priests and peasants put to death , and the Saxon nationalists ( if they may be called such ) were further strengthened by the fact that Charles did not muster a Frankish army until the summer of 779 . |
| 5 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 6 | These he understood and worshipped , and went about to salvage if they would be salvaged , for they were far too good to waste . |
| 7 | If they would be offended by an offer of money , the occasional ( money-saving ) gift to them might be very welcome . |
| 8 | Anne had wondered what would happen now to Margaret and Molly and if they would be allowed to stay in the house , but Margaret confided that the death of the Misses Dolan had solved a problem for her . |
| 9 | She patted his hand and smiled , then pursed her lips together as if they must be forced not to speak another word . |
| 10 | The proliferation of all these tests for bacteria raises a practical problem if they should be used in the investigation of diarrhoea . |
| 11 | Aquifers could be used as carbon stores , if they could be made gas-tight . |
| 12 | And if they could be given a a better appearance , then the the people who see them , the people who drive through on th main road , such as Road and Boulevard , they could see that the area is n't as run down as often the medium makes it out to be . |
| 13 | These qualities are perceptible but the nature of their interactions is never talked of as if they could be quantified . |
| 14 | Cuba and Vietnam , for their part , are bound firmly to the USSR by a mutuality of interest and outlook , but it is questionable , despite considerable dependency on the USSR , if they could be bound against their will . |
| 15 | " Are you going on Surete General business ? " he asked at last in a low voice after glancing around again to see if they could be overheard . |
| 16 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 17 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 18 | A deeper understanding of the function of leys might emerge if they could be seen in ritual terms . |
| 19 | If they could be seen they would resemble the concentric circles spreading outwards when we throw pebbles into the middle of a still pond . |
| 20 | This was reinforced by the tendency of national governments not to handle unpopular decisions if they could be transferred to the High Authority for action . |
| 21 | If they could be cleared , there was some hope for the country ; while they remained , there was none . |
| 22 | The implication of this line of reasoning was that if they could be left alone , insulated from the capitalist global reach , Third World countries would be better off , and would actually be able to develop themselves . |
| 23 | So , for Valerie Yule , language would be improved if words were shorter , if they could be learnt quicker , if they could be read more easily on VDUs . |
| 24 | ‘ During the war a young couple , regular dancers , asked if they could be married in the ballroom . |
| 25 | They would certainly be useful in floral decorations and I also wonder if they could be used in the greenhouse for transplanting seedlings ? |
| 26 | Horticultural staff should evaluate such systems to see if they could be used to help in the efficient deployment of the Garden 's workforce . |
| 27 | The second test , favoured by the minority , was that the goods would be merchantable if they could be used by a reasonable buyer for at least one of their normal purposes . |
| 28 | Everywhere in the Western world social security budgets were under scrutiny , not to see if they were too meagre but to see if they could be reduced . |
| 29 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
| 30 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |