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 . |