Example sentences of "if he be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 2 | A DOCTOR convicted of attempted murder after giving a dying patient an overdose will know within days if he is to be struck off . |
| 3 | Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives . |
| 4 | calling for his immediate release , and if he is to be charged , given a fair and prompt trial ; |
| 5 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 6 | The relationship has not always been pointed out in discussions of Freud 's work , and yet it is an essential one if he is to be properly understood . |
| 7 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 8 | the organisational objectives as gauged by an individual need to be compatible with personal objectives of the individual if he is to be a well-integrated member of the organisation . |
| 9 | put it , ’ … the more outlandish the clause , the greater the notice which the other party , if he is to be bound , must in all fairness be given . ’ |
| 10 | To avenge the death of a son is not hasty work , if he is to be honoured . |
| 11 | The deep-seated feeling that man 's nature is essentially structured to survive nomadically and that he needs to be on the move in some way if he is to be satisfied , is complemented by the mystics ' witness that true human fulfilment is the concomitant of what is experienced as a spiritual journey to a goal beyond time that is occasionally anticipated and known in time , the element within which our curiously mixed physical and spiritual natures cohere and mature . |
| 12 | If he is to be treated as an out-patient the order may specify the place of treatment . |
| 13 | But the danger of a centre party came not from McKenna but from the Unionist ex-Coalitionists , led by Austen Chamberlain , who had twice previously been Chancellor , and who , if he was to be brought back into the fold , would clearly require some substantial offer . |
| 14 | He realised that if he was to be successful he would have to take them at speed . |
| 15 | If he was to be a martyr to this strange woman 's caprices , then so be it . |
| 16 | He knew that if he was to be sure of winning he had to hole it . |
| 17 | It would be the most terrible calamity if he were to be killed not knowing ! |
| 18 | Pastiche or not , ‘ Disco Dancer ’ lived in the kind of predictability that Morrissey , if he were to be truly distanced from The Smiths , would denounce fervently . |
| 19 | She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills . |
| 20 | What if he were to be punished for his vengeance by a plunge into the nerve-glove ? |
| 21 | If he were to be an ‘ S. ’ also , a Stephen or a Sam , then how was she to know which of them had given her orders ? |
| 22 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 23 | You ca n't seriously be suggesting that I … that I should become his mistress if he were to … to want me as such ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He is remarkably well handicapped on 10st four , and if he were to be handicapped again he would go up another stone . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be unfortunate , ’ said Paul , ‘ if he were to be derailed at this point . ’ |
| 26 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |