Example sentences of "if [noun pl] be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Corporatism needs ‘ hegemonic ’ agencies , rather than bureaucratic competition , if policies are to be enforced nationwide . |
| 5 | If signs are to be effective for user orientation , they must be carefully planned with regard to position , content and presentation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If solutions were to be found they would be of a technological nature . |
| 11 | However , two of the most important chapters in this book address the area of immunochemical technology , its benefits and pitfalls , and the barriers to be overcome if immunoassays are to be adopted in the analytical laboratory . |
| 12 | Managers and proprietors soon realized that if halls were to be half full they might as well be totally full and so every ingenious method was used to maximize attendance . |
| 13 | If funds are to be raised for more space , then the gallery must decide what that space would be for . |
| 14 | Section 2.1.4 details a proposed project for piloting the creation of an image database which could begin in 1992 , if funds were to be made available . |
| 15 | If schools are to be better managed , the making of decisions in the course of managing has to be understood and shared by as many people as possible . |
| 16 | If animals are to be sent abroad all the necessary documentation must be arranged prior to shipping and the necessary papers must travel with the animals . |
| 17 | If animals are to be imported into the UK an importation licence issued by the Ministry of Agriculture under the Rabies ( Importation of Dogs , Cats and other Mammals ) Order ( 1974 ) is required . |
| 18 | According to Dr Moore , that is unrealistic if computers are to be able to recognise thousands of words . |
| 19 | It also suggests that this is vital if traders are to be convinced that trading across frontiers is no more strange than doing business with the shopkeeper next door . |
| 20 | In most cases the length of I provides a useful assessment of the mean diameter , and if determinations are to be made in the field this diameter provides a useful measure of average size . |
| 21 | If crosses are to be allowed , what percentage of cross is acceptable ? |
| 22 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 23 | If parents are to be encouraged to bring up mentally handicapped children at home , it is essential that they receive this type of short term respite on a regular basis . |
| 24 | If parents are to be given a reasonable amount of time to talk with the teacher and some choice in the timing of the appointment then it may be best to spread the event over two days . |
| 25 | Emergency admissions will require particular care if parents are to be reassured from the outset that they have a continuing role in their child 's life ’ . |
| 26 | Some matters were easy to spot , for example , the importance of making provision for pre-nursery children if parents were to be actively involved on the premises . |
| 27 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 28 | This brings the aircraft back into balance and instantly increases both the capacity and length of the cargo floor , or cabin if seats are to be installed . |
| 29 | Where the systematic approach dictates the use of chemicals as the predominate form of energy the practical relationships with other factors extend beyond energy and time to include the equipment needed to apply the chemical if costs are to be minimised the general relationship is as follows — |
| 30 | It is therefore essential , if costs are to be meaningful , that site and surveying staff accurately monitor the flow of materials to each cost centre . |