Example sentences of "if it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it helps if the person who is holding the horse , pats the horse on the neck in exact time to the farrier hammering on its foot — especially if it is the actual hammering that worries the horse the most . |
| 2 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 3 | Have we any answer to the jibe , ‘ If it is the right thing to do , you would be doing it now instead of waiting for everyone else' ? ’ |
| 4 | If it is the right one , I 'll never be able to see what 's inside ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Music — if it is the RIGHT music — is perhaps the most important of all the means used to help to teach the art of moving well . |
| 6 | It is clear that , within the framework of a dual-route model of spelling , phonological dysgraphia is the pattern you would expect if the non-lexical procedure for spelling is selectively damaged , and surface dysgraphia is the pattern expected if it is the lexical procedure for spelling that is the damaged one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | c ‘ Even if it is the best tree-house I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 9 | If it is the latter , the aircraft is unserviceable and must not be flown until the brakes have been re-adjusted . |
| 10 | If it is the latter , then the BCS must revamp its qualifications , to attract the new membership . |
| 11 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 12 | If it is the latter kind , then you can be rather more technical and detailed than you might be for the general readership . |
| 13 | If it is the latter , how will Britain ensure or guarantee that the old or new boundaries are enforced ? |
| 14 | If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing . |
| 15 | When you meet somebody , especially if it is the first time of meeting , your senses are working flat out to process all the data . |
| 16 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 17 | Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response . |
| 18 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 19 | A novice is expected to show the degree of skill exhibited by a junior doctor , even if it is the first day on the job . |
| 20 | ‘ People on the receiving end of a hoax bomb call never know if it is the real thing . ’ |
| 21 | Crisis Loans — these interest free loans may be made if it is the only way of avoiding serious risk to the health and safety of you or your family . |
| 22 | It must be declared and tax paid on the cost to your employer ( a Christmas party is exempt if it is the only one held in the year and costs no more than £50 a head ) . |
| 23 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 24 | If it is the defining error or empiricism to assume that only statements meant to be checked up on deserve serious attention , it is the defining error or the new French criticism ( Foucault , Piaget , Barthes , Derrida and others ) to assume that because some statements can not be verified , no statements can , and hence that all statements rail to refer , leaving us with discourse — language without anchorage in time , psyche or history . |
| 25 | Any rule chosen from the conflict set has its weight reduced by the factor K. If it is the last rule of a successful search , so its action leads immediately to a goal , then the reward C is added to its weight . |
| 26 | If pre-baiting is carried out conscientiously , bream can be taught to take practically any edible matter , but there is little chance of success if almost all other anglers on that water are using something else , especially if it is the same alternative food . |
| 27 | It may also be possible to compare these early drawings with a still existing building on the same site , to determine if it is the same structure , and , if so , if any general exterior modifications have been made . |
| 28 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 29 | And it sounds as if it is the same for you . ’ |
| 30 | Now if we replace the West Overton coordinates with those of Bishops Cannings church and recalculate our slope value , and if it is the same as that between the centres and has the same starting point , then a line joining the centres will have been proved to extend through to Bishops Cannings church . |