Example sentences of "[to-vb] if [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | If your income does not exceed your expenditure , then you must isolate items on your expenditure list first of all , to see if they can be reduced . |
2 | If smaller communities , close to a transmission main are to be supplied at a price they can afford , the design of these installations must be re-examined , to see if they can be modified |
3 | " Are you going on Surete General business ? " he asked at last in a low voice after glancing around again to see if they could be overheard . |
4 | I can remember from my recording days walking all around a sting quartet , for example , to locate the perpetrator of odd sniffs or swishes of silk sleeve lining to see if they could be eliminated in some tactful way — often without success . |
5 | Horticultural staff should evaluate such systems to see if they could be used to help in the efficient deployment of the Garden 's workforce . |
6 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
7 | Everywhere in the Western world social security budgets were under scrutiny , not to see if they were too meagre but to see if they could be reduced . |
8 | It is interesting , however , to consider one particular aspect of climate and leisure facilities to see if they could be coupled with other national benefits and needs . |
9 | We need to see if he can be admitted to hospital . |
10 | Many find the rhythm of a larger horse more comfortable but turn to page 31 to see if you can be converted ! |
11 | You should , of course , still be treated fairly and this may entail your employer looking round his organisation , perhaps even the whole corporate group of which he is part , to see if you can be fitted in elsewhere at an appropriate level , before finally deciding to terminate your employment . |
12 | It 's also worth looking at your present routine to see if it can be streamlined . |
13 | Crunching riffs , frantic sneer , a sound so chewy that Rowntrees are currently sticking it under the microscope to see if it can be put into a crisp candy coat , and a bloody horrible noise it all is . |
14 | But on Friday night news came through that VAT HQ had agreed to study the ER scheme ‘ to see if it can be classified as a training activity , which would be VAT exempt , rather than as a business activity , ’ Maxen reported . |
15 | Engineers from the DoT are to look at the southbound-only A1(M) and A66(M) interchange near the town to see if it can be adapted for northbound traffic . |
16 | Stroud District Council say they believe the hotel is of little architectural importance but they 've agreed to see if it should be listed because of the public concern . |
17 | FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We are concerned about the image of the game and if we receive a complaint it will be thoroughly investigated to see if it should be brought before our disciplinary committee . ’ |
18 | Erm this is an effort to do something , the last , I am sure the sterling efforts have been undertaking by Welwyn and Hatfield District Council in this consortium , you know where 's the beef , where is the evidence that somethings been done , this is merely asking to look along this line to see if anything can be done . |
19 | He let a dignified minute pass before going out himself , collecting Catherine , and dispatching Bruce to supervise the house-to-house interviews in Malplaquet Terrace , to see if anyone could be found who had seen the blue BMW arrive or caught sight of its driver . |
20 | Individuals on the other side of the water would pay five or seven hundred pounds to procure their discharge , which could not be expected to continue if they could be released by other means . |
21 | Yet nobody , of whatever political party , can seriously want these differentials to continue if they can be changed . |
22 | Stroud and Evans are waiting to hear if they 'll be given leave to appeal . |
23 | This morning they expect to hear if they 'll be offered professional terms . |
24 | He was in a Niagara Falls jail yesterday waiting to hear if he would be sent back to Britain after being refused entry to America . |
25 | These he understood and worshipped , and went about to salvage if they would be salvaged , for they were far too good to waste . |
26 | Words are used to inflect if they can be assigned to a number of grammatical classes , and the members of all these classes are distinguished from each other by their morphology ( internal shape ) and by their syntax ( the rules of their use ) . |
27 | Chevron 's decision to use a purpose-built vessel for storage poses a problem for authorities responsible for offshore safety : they will have to decide if it should be classified in the same way as a conventional ship or regarded as part of a fixed installation . |
28 | He sent his private secretary down the corridor to see Sir Norman Brook to ask if they could be provided . |
29 | Since these objectives have yet to be achieved , there is time to ask if they can be approached via an alternative route . |
30 | GLENYS Kinnock , wife of the former Labour leader , is writing to Margaret Thatcher to ask if she will be interviewed for her new book , called Radical Women . |