Example sentences of "if he be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well if he 's a nervous person he would n't think like that would he ? |
| 2 | ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods ! |
| 3 | So the , the upshot of it all , is he 's banned for two races , but this is a susp suspended erm , ban over two months , er er , over six months rather , so it means that if he 's a good boy over the next six months he wo n't miss any races at all , so he has had a lucky escape . |
| 4 | If he 's a skilled boardroom apparatchik , they say he 's not much cop as a coach . |
| 5 | I do n't actually say that I view his piano playing as if he 's a miniature mixture of Oscar Peterson , Oscar Borge , Chico Marx , Russ Conway and Les Dawson , because I 've only just thought of that . |
| 6 | ‘ If he 's a secret friend of the Moslems , why does n't he just give them the money directly . |
| 7 | He says oh yes I 'm very disappointed but if he 's a sick man you ca n't expect him to get up in front of 6,000 people . |
| 8 | And he 'll only start the job if he can afford it , that 's if he 's a wise man . |
| 9 | She talks about her husband as if he 's a superior being — and she imagines George is one , too , which brings out the worst in me . |
| 10 | And it 's not as if he 's an easy lad . ’ |
| 11 | Tailored suits are teamed with polo-shirts and , if he 's the outdoor type , there are pages of sports-inspired casual wear . |
| 12 | Where the person under disability wishes to be a plaintiff or applicant , before commencing proceedings , if he is a mental patient and a person is authorised by order of the Court of Protection to conduct the proceedings , then that person must file in the court office a sealed office copy of the Court of Protection 's order ( Ord 10 , r 2(a) ) . |
| 13 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 14 | Afterwards he reflected on the preacher 's dilemma : ‘ If he is a strong man , the possessor of popular gifts , he will be treated with plenty of consideration ; but the consideration is not due to his office so much as to his personal qualities . ’ |
| 15 | It will be gravely libellous if he is a drunken driver but not a terrorist . |
| 16 | Prompt service on him of a Specification requiring production of wages information held by him , or books of account if he is a sole trader or in partnership , may be the basis of a rude awakening . |
| 17 | ‘ It will only really be meaningful and historic if he is a great success , ’ Davis said soon after firing the existing head coach Mike Shanahan . |
| 18 | To say that someone is guilty of terrorism and drunken driving will be justifiable if he is a tee-total terrorist . |
| 19 | If he is a lawful visitor it is necessary to go to the 1957 Act . |
| 20 | He was ‘ virtually the general of a powerful and willing army and if he is a wise man , his opportunities for good will be as large as the sphere he occupies ’ . |
| 21 | If he is an experienced gardener , you have to make sure that he sets himself achievable targets , and does not become over-ambitious . |
| 22 | For these reasons , it might well be that the courts will be reluctant to interfere with the judgment of the policeman on the spot , especially if he is an experienced officer . |
| 23 | This depicted W H Smith as being accident prone — ‘ every time [ analysts ] meet the company there is another piece of bad news ’ — and weakly led : ‘ Brokers are also beginning to mutter about the effectiveness of the management led by opera buff and P G Wodehouse fan , chairman Sir Simon Hornby : they wonder if he is the right man to tackle the deep-seated problems at Do It All . ’ |
| 24 | He seems contented — if he is the right man . ’ |
| 25 | Only time will tell if he is the right man for the job . |
| 26 | He feels as if he is the only man awake in the entire world . |
| 27 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 28 | Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes . |
| 29 | They used to send the stewards round and er you you 'd suddenly see two new people in the congregation and they 'd come to hear the minister preach to see if he was a good preacher and then they 'd go back to report . |
| 30 | ‘ If he was a real otaku he would n't have left the house and driven around looking for victims . |