Example sentences of "if [noun] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have to gain their support , if change is to be brought about . ’ |
| 2 | At a not-much-reported occasion in north Berwick last Friday night , the right hon. and learned Member for Pentlands made a speech of an accomplished delphic nature in which he said that , if change were to be allowed , independence would be the least advantageous change . |
| 3 | Yet understanding where older customers fit in to the scheme of things is very important if discrimination is to be avoided , because it will influence both the products and the marketing approach . |
| 4 | If inequality is to be reduced , so the argument goes , capitalism must be either abandoned or at the very least changed radically . |
| 5 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 6 | If cases were to be properly judged in Aquitaine , kept out of the Paris Parlement or adjudicated successfully by ad hoc commissions in either Gascony or ( if a petition to the king in parliament had been made ) in England , then knowledge of tenurial conditions , rights , duties and privileges was essential . |
| 7 | If provision is to be made ( Clause 20.02.5 ) for retentions from the amount due on account of tax liabilities or compensation for damage caused to the firm by the outgoing partner ( a somewhat controversial matter , but one which might be considered , for example , in relation to increased indemnity insurance premiums becoming payable by the continuing partners as a result of the negligence of the outgoing partner ) the terms must be set out with clarity . |
| 8 | An understanding of the occupational structure for women is essential if policies are to be formulated which ensure equality of opportunity with men ; it also forms an important foundation for policies concerned with unemployment and with the prediction of changes in women 's participation in paid employment . |
| 9 | Corporatism needs ‘ hegemonic ’ agencies , rather than bureaucratic competition , if policies are to be enforced nationwide . |
| 10 | Irrespective of this , theories and assumptions must be stated and analysis be rigorous if progress is to be made . |
| 11 | A much more dramatic break with the current political tradition is required if progress is to be made in building support for the policies that could spring Britain 's underclass from its current position . |
| 12 | Those rules are not immutable ; at each level , the rules can be bent and perhaps have to be if progress is to be made . |
| 13 | ‘ Shared Training is essential if progress is to be made towards achieving the vision ’ , of a seamless service . |
| 14 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 15 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , if counsel is to be briefed for the hearing he should settle the pleading , and for that matter , the letter before action . |
| 17 | If faith is to be solidly grounded at all , it must rest on some more secure foundation than that . |
| 18 | If communism was to be contained , then the economic weaknesses and poverty which could help it to develop in Western Europe had to be removed . |
| 19 | If signs are to be effective for user orientation , they must be carefully planned with regard to position , content and presentation . |
| 20 | The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts . |
| 21 | At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made . |
| 22 | If unity were to be achieved , a different path had to be sought . |
| 23 | Given the width of the ambit of these basic provisions , it would be surprising if Parliament is to be taken to have intended to limit the sections now under consideration as Hambros Jersey contended . |
| 24 | If employers are to be expected to meet the cost then they ( and the Department of Health ) will have to be convinced that moneys invested in providing programmes will have a worth-while outcome in terms of better recruitment and retention of staff . |
| 25 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | That vision could not be put into practice if Highland were to be governed by an authority the size of Belgium . |
| 28 | Richmondshire District Council said it was forced to bring in charges if money was to be found to maintain existing car parks and create new ones . |
| 29 | In his speech er in that debate the honourable member for Edinburgh central and the bench er in his place today , er welcomed the government 's acceptance of Sir Thomas ' and the select committee 's recommendation and agreed er that it was in his words , important that the statutory duty of auditors ought to be clear so that er to use his colourful phrase , if whistles are to be blown they 're to be blown without doubt . |
| 30 | Kalim Siddiqui , the outspoken leader of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ , also agreed that wider forces had to be tackled if racism was to be stamped out . |