Example sentences of "if it be your " in BNC.

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1 But what if it is your screaming ?
2 If it is your passion that is in the driving seat , ask yourself whether you care what effect the actions of your free will will have upon others or upon yourself .
3 If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased .
4 If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) .
5 If it is your intention to add a fully scripted commentary , you will need to work out the timings .
6 If it is your intention to set a cat among the pigeons or let loose an eagle in the dovecote , you do n't send a postcard in advance announcing your intentions . ’
7 And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise .
8 Sir , if it is your wish , I will now open the case .
9 ‘ But if it is your wish to die , then by all means let us set to .
10 If it is your wandering corporal in hospital , what were you planning ? ’ she asked .
11 If it is your home as well ‘ disruption ’ is almost a euphemism !
12 But as you said if it is your responsibility you 'll have to do it all yourself , there are lots of resources and lots of other people who can actually help you out who have the knowledge and you can use because you can use it as a development tool ca n't you for some of your members of the section to give them some training expertise .
13 This is particularly true if it is your first investment .
14 If it is your first work of fiction of any great length , I think you are doing the right thing putting it forward for appraisal by the Eastern Arts Board , you are lucky in your part of the country to have this .
15 If it is your first work of fiction , you should also look at it as part of your groundwork which although it may never see the light of publication , is of great benefit to you as a writer .
16 You do n't provide warnings if it is your intention to kill . ’
17 Cos I mean to say , even if it is your father
18 Most doctors will tell you it 's best to have your baby in hospital , especially if it 's your first child .
19 If it 's your birthday then I write a song or an ode and you share it with the whole restaurant — everyone joins in . ’
20 After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us .
21 A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) .
22 A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player .
23 ‘ Well , if it 's your sister , I do n't see no harm . ’
24 If it 's your idea of fun to sit here … waiting for water .
25 If it 's your boyfriend , it 's ‘ Why do you want to spend more than fifteen minutes with your boyfriend ? ’
26 There are also those old myths still around about when you do n't get pregnant — like if it 's your first time , or if you have sex infrequently , or if you do it standing up .
27 We 're not yet a police lab even if you do walk in and out of the place as if it 's your own kitchen .
28 But if you 've used a , a room at home , then you have to watch the capital gains situation , because if it 's your residence , then for capital gains purposes when you sell it , it 's exempt from income tax .
29 " That makes it easier in a way , but I do n't know if it 's your job or ours . "
30 All Eva remembers is lying on the sofa wondering if she was going to die , and saying , " Well , Lord , if this is the end of my life I 'll just have to say how thankful I am , and what a wonderful privilege its been , but if it 's your will for me to live then I just give myself to you all the more .
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