Example sentences of "if it be [verb] that " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( The discrepancy could perhaps be explained if it is assumed that there is also a weak preference to continue with the first-named character . ) |
| 9 | Indeed , perceptual constancies are only a puzzle if it is assumed that the visual system acts like a camera . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The past six months have made it clear that latent isolationism can be inflamed if it is felt that the allies are shirking . |
| 26 | Families may be split and huge rifts created if it is felt that the wrong choice has been made . |
| 27 | There might be more advantage in making the categories run mid-way across the ten-year groups , giving 25–34 as a group if it is felt that some significant changes take place in people 's lives in their mid-thirties , or at other points in the mid-sections of the decades . |
| 28 | The nature of the organisation and the staff it employs tends to lead to a greater commitment to any investigation and subsequent changes , particularly if it is felt that they could eventually benefit the residents . |
| 29 | This has to be suggested to her with some care , without giving her the impression that you think her sudden collapse into illness is in any way imminent or inevitable ; and it should not be suggested at all if it is felt that it might upset or frighten her . |
| 30 | Chloral is a sedative and not an analgesic , so if it is felt that the above signs are due to pain , the doctor must prescribe analgesia in addition to , or instead of , chloral . |