Example sentences of "if it is [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not know if you are so frank with me because you do not care how I react , or if it is honesty which prompts you . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) … a doctor shall be under no obligation to give treatment personally if such reasonable steps as are appropriate are taken to ensure continuity of treatment , and treatment may be given — ( a ) by another doctor acting as a deputy … ( b ) if it is treatment which it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate , by a person whom the doctor had authorised and who is competent to carry out such treatment . ’ |
| 3 | Here Lévi-Strauss argues that behind the original question from which Sartre began — how can man make history if history makes him ? — lurks another : if it is man who makes history , how does ‘ History ’ gain its exorbitant status as the desired , unachievable object of Sartre 's text ? |
| 4 | If it is power we seek , then our grammar of living is to communicate the need of achievement . |
| 5 | If it is politics you are interested in — as distinct from government , which is something quite different — the place to look from now on is the opposition . |