Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 Clarke equalled the United Kingdom junior women 's record of 2.95 metres , and must now wait anxiously to see if she is selected for the junior international match against Hungary later this month .
2 He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’
3 If she was prepared for the worst then , God willing , it would n't happen .
4 They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute .
5 First decide whether you wish to make a portrait or landscape design , and check that the card will stand up properly if you are opting for the latter shape .
6 ‘ I will give you a minute , no more , to tell me if you are working for the British Government or another .
7 IT looks more like an obelisk than a hotel , but if you 're looking for the unusual and eccentric , the 218-ft Sway Tower piercing the New Forest skyline could be yours for £1million .
8 If you 're looking for the perfect Valentine 's prezzie for your perfect man that 's just a bit different check these out !
9 If you 're looking for the perfect summer dress , how about this flattering style with full skirt and neatly-belted waist ?
10 If you 're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays , how can you beat the queues ?
11 well you usually do , so I 'm wondering if you 're going for the , you know , your , the usual performance
12 ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’
13 Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’
14 Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger .
15 If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) .
16 If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ .
17 If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals .
18 I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ?
19 ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’
20 These Regulations , which are now in force , allow partnerships of unlimited size if they are formed for the purpose of carrying on practice as consulting engineers , provided a majority of the partners are recognised by the Engineering Council as chartered engineers .
21 All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux .
22 If they are looking for the special therapist to ‘ cure ’ them , then , also they will be disappointed .
23 I did wonder if they were searching for the book .
24 The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities .
25 No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves .
26 It was n't as if they were heading for the hills .
27 However , if it is intended for the community , the contents must reflect the concerns of the community , with comments on the wider world and put together with a certain degree of journalistic skill .
28 This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores .
29 Any part of the cost of a development which is attributable to plant and machinery will generally qualify for a 25% annual allowance if it is used for the purchaser 's trade or leased by the purchaser to another for the purpose of the other 's trade .
30 Tutors may wish to explore how it would be treated if it was used for the business and for family use to illustrate that these decisions are not always so clear cut .
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