Example sentences of "if [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no-one is connected , use procedure 2 . |
| 2 | As in all ex-Soviet passenger aircraft , the seat backs are designed to flop forward and lie horizontal if no-one is sitting on them . |
| 3 | From this it can be seen that recruitment will be most effective if everyone is involved and understands the problem . |
| 4 | If everyone is to move at the same time , the new premises need to be ready in their entirety to house all the people and equipment being moved . |
| 5 | Tape back-up units , because if everyone is working on the same set of master files you ca n't afford to lose them |
| 6 | A word of caution is required because if everyone is working on a sub-problem then it becomes difficult to tackle the whole problem in a novel way . |
| 7 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 8 | er , Can I enter a plea for tolerance , if in a democracy it 's very easy to get steamed up about things you do n't like , things you find disgusting and revolting but if everyone is going to come forward , have banned the activity they do n't like then we 're going to live , it may be a democracy , but it 's going to be a narrowed , er and intolerant society in which we live . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's as if everyone is waiting for something , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | " Stop talking " can be seen as plain common sense if everyone is talking at once , but if it comes from an over-talkative mother with a shy child it can have serious consequences on the child 's character . |
| 11 | If everyone is screened for genetic disorders , for which there may be no cures , what are those people then to do , and who is to have access to the information — prospective employers , insurers ? |
| 12 | Young adults ( aged 16–29 ) amount to only 5 per cent of the disabled population if everyone is included , a little more than that among the most severely impaired . |
| 13 | ONE OF the most important lessons of game theory is that even if everyone is agreed on the most desirable course of action — for example , nuclear disarmament — a collection of individuals or nations acting independently may find it difficult to achieve the most desirable aims . |
| 14 | We looked so thin on the ground , I thought we 'd sit and wait and see if everyone 's coming , but erm we 'll have to get started anyway . |
| 15 | Yeah , but it 'll be nice to though if everyone 's going . |
| 16 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 17 | It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him . |
| 18 | What would happen to us all if everyone were to behave like you ? |
| 19 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 20 | If nothing is done , the regulations already passed will continue improving air quality until the mid-1990s but then the growth in population , and car numbers , will send pollution rising again , indefinitely . ’ |
| 21 | If nothing is done there , the government 's saying in effect , ‘ Here 's a machete and a matchbox ; , get on with it . ’ |
| 22 | Even this amount of work will cost them £420 but , if nothing is done , chairman Peter Hobbs warned ‘ The mound will become a bigger and bigger eyesore . ’ |
| 23 | If nothing is done , the game will degenerate into absurdity — and one of those hooligans we are looking to stamp out may take out his frustrations on the officials . |
| 24 | Despite the grave financial situation that Italy is in today , and despite the total suspension of spending on public works , parliament has indicated that Venice should have absolute priority on account of the grave risk of permanent damage if nothing is done . |
| 25 | Like many other colleges and educational establishments , Gateshead college is worried about that trend and thinks that it will increase in the future , particularly if nothing is done . |
| 26 | But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual . |
| 27 | They fear that if nothing is done , the fish will disappear altogether . |
| 28 | If nothing is done soon this hill will just stagnate . ’ |
| 29 | 2,500 tons of food is at risk from shelling … if nothing is done , we will stop deliveries in two more days because we do n't have any place to put it . ’ |
| 30 | In figure 7.6 the capacitances to earth are represented as lumped together from nodes A , B , C and D. Notice that if nothing is done about these capacitances , they act in pairs across the arms of the bridge ; for example , the reactance of C A in series with that of C B is in parallel with the impedance Z 1 . |