Example sentences of "if it be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I do not share that view but whatever the reason , stubbornness must not be allowed to succeed : the dog must do what he is commanded to do , not in his own time , when he feels like it , but immediately ; and if it is done correctly , he should receive praise and lots of it . |
| 2 | I think the solution is certainly to breed animals in zoos but , if it is done , a great deal of effort must be made to ensure the conditions in which the animals are kept are good , and there are some zoos now which are successful in keeping animals so that their welfare is good . |
| 3 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 4 | Praising people , if it is done authentically , is a behaviour which is generally welcome and tends to encourage people to do well . |
| 5 | You need to impress on him that it will only work if it is done properly — that there must be absolutely no cheating . |
| 6 | The study found that the impact of conversion on local employment is minimal , particularly if it is done by the farmer 's family rather than a local company . |
| 7 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |
| 8 | While it may be frowned on by purists , it is a practical way round the problem of cutting on dialogue , and if it is done with sensitivity it is not too obtrusive . |
| 9 | Releasing the emotional threads is somewhat like cutting the umbilical cord : if it is done too soon , both parties risk severe injury through loss of blood , whereas if it is left too long , it becomes an obscenity , a viscous , unnatural-looking projection of the human body . |
| 10 | It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements . |
| 11 | Mrs Dennison looked up from her plate a little flushed and said : ‘ I 'm always suspicious of the excuse that a sin is justified if it 's done to benefit someone we love . |
| 12 | ‘ You can get that feel with man-made fabrics too — a big well-cut , microfibre parka can be real earthy if it 's done right . ’ |
| 13 | I hate to be the party-pooper , again , but rabble-rousing sexist nonsense is not to be forgiven , even if it 's done with Blade 's A1 golden retriever smile . |
| 14 | POSC believes non object-oriented methods of integrating data can take weeks or months — if it 's done at all due to the complexity of what 's involved . |
| 15 | If it 's done properly , and I 'm not talking about fucking balaclavas and funny accents , there 's no reason why he should know who hit him . ’ |
| 16 | We either ignore it , but if it 's done in public you feel threatened , or you feel that you are showing weakness if you just ignore it . |
| 17 | And if it was done properly , no one need ever know . |
| 18 | Where a statutory authority is under a mandatory obligation to supply a service , whether with a saving or nuisance clause ( that nothing shall exonerate it from proceedings for nuisance ) or whether without such a clause , the authority is under no liability for anything expressly required by statute to be done , or reasonably incidental to that requirement , if it was done without negligence . |
| 19 | ‘ How did Lord Wittisham happen to have atropine with him , if it was done on the spur of the moment ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ How can it be sacrilege , if it was done to traitors ? |
| 21 | If it was done up , it 'd be worth two million . ’ |
| 22 | and all was accurately , now if it was done really with the hope that the council and winder would get together and come to some decent arrangement and at the other side of er Lancaster er down by the |
| 23 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 24 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 25 | Such research would be all the more effective if it were done in conjunction with the European and British institutes for tropical research that I discussed earlier this year ( 3 and 20 January , pp 106 and 183 ) . |
| 26 | ( Almost , she thought afterwards , as if it were done for her . ) |
| 27 | ‘ If it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . ’ |
| 28 | But yes it could be done , but even if it were done , and you were quite right , the the the intelligence is insufficiently precise to actually hit everybody . |