Example sentences of "if it be [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should be supported by the health service as part of the programme of development that any large organisation must adopt if it is to remain up to date and use its resources cost effectively . |
| 2 | Denial : As with the primary illness , family members can not see their own addictive disease and may be exceedingly indignant if it is pointed out to them . |
| 3 | There is nowhere to run to … it is your first night , Englishman , you have to learn of a new world , you have to be patient if it is to give up to you its secrets . |
| 4 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 5 | So it looks as if it 's going off to infinity or something , but |
| 6 | It looks as if it 's reeling on to that spool . |
| 7 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 8 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |