Example sentences of "if [adj] be [art] " in BNC.

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1 Infrared spectroscopy can be used to characterize long chain polymers because the infrared active groups , present along the chain , absorb as if each was a localized group in a simple molecule .
2 If Labour were the biggest party he feared the FTSE100 Index could fall from its current 2,382.7 to 2,200 .
3 If that 's a sign of madness , I 've gone completely crazy , but it ca n't be worse than this .
4 And if that 's a crime then I plead guilty .
5 Sometimes maybe you build a bond that 's too strong , I do n't know if that 's a good thing or bad . ’
6 ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’
7 Either we can influence and help that to be to be good or or you know if that 's a failure then see whether they can help us to produce one for the town .
8 Now if th this side , the list on this side erm represents the sort of essential characteristics of a Marxist political party , and if that 's a reasonable er summary , and people might want to take issue with it argue that these are n't the essential characteristics , that there are other essential characteristics or one other important er characteristic which I 've ignored , but if these are , down this side , the essential characteristics of a Marxist party then Mao 's Communist Party in the late nineteen thirties can not , it seems to me , by any stretch of the imagination qualify .
9 So if that if that 's a right angle only if it 's a right angle cos Pythagoras 's theorem does n't work if it 's not then we 've got the easy way to remember Pythagoras is long equals medium plus short .
10 I think you 're meant to ask if that 's a true record .
11 ‘ I would not say he has always told us all the truth , ’ said Cadfael mildly , ‘ if that 's a matter for his conscience .
12 I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water .
13 If that 's a man 's name .
14 And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end .
15 If that 's a five , it maps to the number ten .
16 There 's something there called W S swap , I wonder if that 's a word processor to word processor converter another undocumented feature .
17 If that 's a bid for sympathy , ’ Nathan Bryce said grimly , ‘ you 're wasting your time . ’
18 She says , ‘ I doubt if that 's a present .
19 If that 's a natural as it were adapted effect of the Trivers Willard effect , there are plenty of cultural ones as well .
20 Once you 've agreed the price if that 's a thousand pound or thousand pound page then you want thirty five percent of the first year 's payment .
21 If that 's a sample of the kind of terms you 're offering , I 'm sure we can come to an agreement . ’
22 Du n no if that 's a good way of looking at it .
23 If that 's a bit out of your reach at £15,000 , maybe you could settle for a model of the real thing .
24 Two white lads and a coloured one and er it was a white girl and I often wonder if that 's a good idea er whether they should all be the same colour .
25 And if that 's a damp night or something
26 I 'll have that , if that 's a curry , well we said bloody hell we never sa , chicken curry this hot before !
27 They 've got a supermarket , if that 's a hairdressers that has n't made it , it 's not a good sign .
28 So if that 's a T then that 's gon na be
29 If that 's a suitable inscription .
30 If that 's no good , he 's to try the Red Trafalgar when it opens .
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