Example sentences of "if i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment . |
| 2 | CAN I REFER TO ACET EVEN IF I AM USING OTHER SERVICES ? |
| 3 | If I am looking directly at a stick insect , 8 inches in front of my nose and in strong daylight , I shall not be fooled by it . |
| 4 | I feel as if I am watching something happen to someone else . ’ |
| 5 | Or if I am called to a meeting that does not have a purpose written on the agenda , I demand to know what the purpose of the meeting is , before we start . |
| 6 | ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘ |
| 7 | My rules are to cut down drinking , control my temper if I am drinking , not to drink in a such a large group and not to waste much money . |
| 8 | But if I am competing , on or off the track , I want to win . |
| 9 | If I am ferreting single-handedly there is no need for any other digging implement . |
| 10 | He might be my best friend but he will treat me the same as any other player and will only pick me for a Test if I am bowling well . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 12 | I feel as if I am poised somewhere on the edge of a slope , and about to slide down when I am supposed to be climbing up . |
| 13 | I will not say that much of this debate has been irrelevant , because that sounds as if I am dismissing what has been said , which I am not , but it is irrelevant in the context of 1993 , because the advent of the new system will answer many of the problems that have been identified . |
| 14 | If I am transferred to jail in the US I am a dead man . ’ |
| 15 | He slid his eyes at his mother , and then said a little maliciously , ‘ How much will you object if I am cast ? ’ |
| 16 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 17 | And yesterday he vowed : ‘ If I am appointed , I shall be doing things in a somewhat different style . |
| 18 | I could read the whole of it if I am asked to do so . |
| 19 | Should I have a job specification for everyone in my team , so if I am asked where is it , I can say here it is , and make sure that they are all signed off . |
| 20 | But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 22 | ‘ Do I look as if I am joking , Miss Bishop ? ’ |
| 23 | Subtext : I will not split the party if I am made chancellor . |
| 24 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 25 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 26 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 27 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 28 | If I am killed in doing what I feel is right , it may be part of God 's plan . |
| 29 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 30 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |