Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If permission is refused to a Part I application , no direct compensation is paid , but it may well be possible to compel the local authority to purchase the property compulsorily if it can be shown that the property has no reasonable beneficial use . |
| 2 | For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion . |
| 3 | This is acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the method gives a reasonable approximation of the actual cost . |
| 4 | We would certainly be pleased to see them making a greater contribution , but only if it can be shown that there would be genuine environmental benefits in so doing . |
| 5 | We would certainly be pleased to see them making a greater contribution , but only if it can be shown that there would be genuine environmental benefits in so doing . |
| 6 | If , however , he has oral sex with her and she is 16 years old or more , he can be liable for the offence of indecent assault only if it can be proved that she did not consent . |
| 7 | The payments made by MGN would fall outside the scope of the scheme only if it could be shown that they did not fall within any of the individual Regulations . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal said that the plaintiffs would have had the right to review Coopers ' decision only if there could be implied into the original agreement words describing this kind of challenge which qualified the " final and binding " description of the decision in the appropriate manner . |
| 9 | And he loved simple and dramatic solutions to everything : especially if they could be retailed in conversation . |
| 10 | Fit a handrail or build parapet wall beside long flights , especially if they will be used by children or the elderly . |
| 11 | The three month limit should cover most acute illnesses , especially if it can be extended when necessary . |
| 12 | Such a politically neutral environmental agency might be able to convince both sides in a military conflict that some remedial action is needed urgently , especially if it can be shown that both factions will suffer adverse environmental effects in the short term and/or in the long term . |
| 13 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 14 | The pursuit of the alternatives can be inhibited by the view that little if anything can be achieved within present resource limits . |
| 15 | We all know that the best dishes for entertaining are those that require little last-minute attention , and they 're better still if they can be prepared in advance and frozen . |
| 16 | Using Egan 's approach to problem management described above , Sally 's case may be used to demonstrate that she will benefit more if she can be helped to focus on what are , in her opinion , the most pressing problems . |
| 17 | Instead of deciding what should be done and working out later if it can be afforded , the economists say the problem should tackled the other way round . |
| 18 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 19 | Now if it could be said that God in Christ took on specifically ‘ male humanity ’ , then women would be outside the scheme of salvation — and that has never been suggested . |
| 20 | With Wallace H. Carothers 's nylon ( 1935 ) already promising well if it could be commercialized , Whinfield looked to other classes of polymer , which could be made to yield a textile fibre . |
| 21 | For example , if the patients ' bowels act too often or with great urgency , and espcially if there should be repeated episodes of faecal leakage or even frank incontinence , they might be better off with an ileostomy . |
| 22 | People understand their own and other people 's lives not just in terms of class fractions or units of labour power even if they can be categorised as such . |
| 23 | And even if he could be roused — which he can not — no contact could be made . |
| 24 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 25 | Even if it could be said that , because the school would have incurred the basic expense of running the school in any event , such expense was not incurred ‘ in ’ providing the facilities for the taxpayer 's child , on the literal meaning of the words such expense was in any event incurred ‘ in connection with ’ the provision of such facilities . |
| 26 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 27 | In my judgment even if it could be said that Mr Clayton attorned tenant to Twogates by tacitly accepting the terms of that letter , such an attornment would not be evidence of an unequivocal intention on the part of the landlords to re-enter under the provisions of the … lease … |
| 28 | However , students attention should be drawn to the fact that these were not sold in the closing down sale so open market value may not be appropriate even if it could be established . |
| 29 | While it is not easy to establish as an empirical matter what the current income-wealth distribution is , even if it could be established , the question of what degree of inequality should be the trigger for government policy remains . |
| 30 | In spite of the removal of smoke by roof ventilation , the scene of operations would be too remote for direct visual observation to provide a reliable indication of progress and no degree of artificial lighting , even if it could be provided and relied upon in these circumstances would offer adequate assistance . |