Example sentences of "if it be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it be conceded that the need for legal advice arises from the existence of a legal problem , the difficulties in meeting that need would appear to have been exposed earlier in the chapter . |
| 2 | If it be said that such an accident is an involuntary mischief , would it have been a binding promise if the testator had said , ‘ I will give you £100 a year while you continue in your present chambers ’ ? |
| 3 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |
| 4 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 5 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 6 | And if it be objected that A may act first ( against B ) and explain why afterwards , whereupon B acts to C 's detriment , the answer is that it is not A's act which has caused C 's loss but the implied threat that it will be repeated . |
| 7 | If it be objected that the propositions above contravene the principle in Stilk v. Myrick , I answer that in my view they do not : they refine and limit the application of that principle , but they leave the principle unscathed , for example , where B secures no benefit by his promise . |
| 8 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 9 | But if it is discovered and threatened , it twists its legs outwards and arches its back in such an extreme contortion that it suddenly and disconcertingly exposes its underside — and that is a vivid scarlet , a spectacular warning that its skin contains a burning poison . |
| 10 | You should practise saying goodbye , thanking the interviewer , shaking his ? her hand if it is proffered and making a confident exit . |
| 11 | If it is injured or sick it may sit quietly in an unusually visible position during daylight hours . |
| 12 | ( The discrepancy could perhaps be explained if it is assumed that there is also a weak preference to continue with the first-named character . ) |
| 13 | Indeed , perceptual constancies are only a puzzle if it is assumed that the visual system acts like a camera . |
| 14 | Nor does the arts/science distinction make much sense in terms of graduate employment , if it is assumed that the distinction is based on a simple non-vocational/vocational one or ‘ non-relevant/relevant ’ one . |
| 15 | But the Belfast and Edinburgh situations are abnormal and irregular only if it is assumed that the patterns revealed in the New York City study are the normal and regular ones , and that Labov 's findings on the structure of that speech community are universally applicable . |
| 16 | If it is assumed that the system of corporate enterprise is the most efficient system for the creation of wealth , should it therefore be concluded that corporate power is legitimate ? |
| 17 | An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger . |
| 18 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |
| 19 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 20 | Even if it is assumed that actual bodily harm has been inflicted in these circumstances , the defendant has inflicted it during intercourse but has not inflicted it in order to have or continue having sexual intercourse . |
| 21 | If it is assumed that the expected volume of output is roughly equal to that experienced in the previous year , , then the higher is , the greater will gross investment tend to be . |
| 22 | If it is assumed that v t and t are normally distributed , it can be shown that the ratio is distributed as an F-variate with g and n - k degrees of freedom , where g is the number of restrictions , n is the number of observations and k is the total number of coefficients being estimated in the unrestricted model . |
| 23 | This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something . |
| 25 | If it is assumed that basolateral Na + -K + pump activity increases during acid secretion , K + entering the cell must recycle across the basolateral membrane to maintain intracellular K + concentration , and a basolateral conductance has been shown in Necturus and frog oxyntic cells . |
| 26 | If it is assumed that the Earth 's magnetic field was of this form in the past , then it is possible to estimate the position of the magnetic pole for rocks of known ages ( dated by radiometric methods ) by measuring their palaeomagnetism . |
| 27 | If it is assumed that the alternative to investing in equity is to invest in bonds , then , in the long run , it would be expected that the returns to these two investments would be equal after allowing for risk differentials . |
| 28 | Eliminating between these equations gives or on separately equating the real and imaginary parts The second of these two relations simplifies to and substitution of this condition into the first yields Equations ( 8.34 ) and ( 8.35 ) , representing the conditions that must be satisfied to procure total rejection , become much simpler if it is assumed that , for they then reduce to Evidently , if and , total rejection occurs at a frequency close to . |
| 29 | This means that in the case of a community service order , the court which revokes the order must sentence the offender to a sentence which would have been available on the occasion when the community service order was made , and if it is considering whether the offender qualifies for a custodial sentence for the purposes of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) , must consider his history and attitude on the day when the original order was made . |
| 30 | A reader will be prepared to accept an insight if it is presented as fiction , that is , as something a fictional character observes . |