Example sentences of "if [pron] [be] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth century the French naturalist Buffon remarked : ‘ Young cats are gay , vivacious , frolicksome , and , if nothing was to be apprehended from their claws , would afford excellent amusement to children . |
| 2 | I saw only that , in this magical new view of the world to which I had been introduced , scepticism and gullibility must be harnessed in tandem if nothing was to be missed . |
| 3 | If I am to be punished unfairly , could we return to the subject of volunteering for the Parachute School ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I am to be disappointed , I should like to get it over . ’ |
| 5 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
| 6 | Planning over an 11-year period could , I believe , bring about a veritable revolution , especially if the whole curriculum ( both subjects and cross-curricular themes ) can be welded together , but I want to see some rapid practical progress if I am to be reassured . |
| 7 | If I am to be autonomous , God must go . |
| 8 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 9 | ’ — And if I am to be a great Kha-Khan , I ought to be able to recognise when I am being told the truth . ’ |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 11 | ‘ If I were to be wrapped up warmly , and … ’ |
| 12 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 13 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 14 | If I were to be denied my belief in the almost limitless potential of my students , I 'd give up . |
| 15 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |
| 16 | If I was to be arrested , I would be arrested with dignity . |
| 17 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 18 | Some boys if I 'm to be honest , but we have n't yet worked out the right way of gong about it . |
| 19 | Many people have found its traditional keystrokes to be somewhat less than mnemonic , an opinion I tend to subscribe to , if I 'm to be honest . |
| 20 | Each must inform the other and the LEA if someone is to be suspended . |
| 21 | If someone is to be tried for matters as serious as those for which Mr. Beck was tried and to receive the condign punishment that Mr. Beck received , it is essential that he should have a fair trial and that he should be given every opportunity to deploy his defence . |
| 22 | If someone were to be left alone in one of these structures , not only would the physical senses be deprived , but the individual would be in a psychic atmosphere well suited to the encouragement of inspirational and prophetic experiences . |
| 23 | He referred to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , which stresses that there must be some objective basis for reasonable suspicion if somebody is to be searched , such as the individual 's behaviour or information received . |
| 24 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 25 | That is , if she is to be believed . |
| 26 | Make up two sentences to show if she is to be told or not — watch them as you say them — hear them in your mind 's ear . |
| 27 | " recommend earnestly to them to purchase Timber , that may answer the purpose , from the wreck of the Brig stranded on Duich Bay , if she is to be broken up … " |
| 28 | What would she do if she were to be discovered ? |
| 29 | What if she were to be stranded in the mountains — marooned by a blizzard ? |
| 30 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |