Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
2 | I do n't know where she is — if she 's alive at all — and I do n't much care . |
3 | If you are good at expanding functions up to second order you might like to attempt Example 2.5 . |
4 | Perhaps you always have your evening meal at seven o'clock — but , if you are hungry at six , that is when you should eat . |
5 | I do n't mind if you 're female at all ! |
6 | Er , and I think it 's a good idea that you , if you want to have a look at these photographs , look at them , if you 're squeamish at all , do n't look at them . |
7 | What , what happened if you were ill at all or anything in the early days , did , did were you allowed time off for illness ? |
8 | In any event , in cases covered by the UCTA 1977 , exclusions will be subject to a test of reasonableness if they are effective at all . |
9 | Thus , if only one or two dated skeletons are excavated , sex , age , disease and measurement may be noted but deductions as to the morphological affinities of these individuals with other peoples of the period could only be very tentative , if they are possible at all . |
10 | But given the cultural overlap between Britain and the US , and the fact that the 20 highest-grossing films in Britain last year all came from America , many of Medved 's arguments are equally applicable on this side of the Atlantic — if they are applicable at all . |
11 | Leaves , if they were present at all , were humble scales or spine-like projections . |
12 | If they were successful at this stage , they would then have to find the fee . |
13 | Most socialists , if they were interested at all , took their foreign policy from middle-class radicals , and pacifist politics continued to be dominated by essentially Cobdenite assumptions about the relationship between capitalism and peace . |
14 | If it is possible at all to find a semantic common denominator for sentences containing auxiliary need , the best candidate would probably be " non-assertiveness " . |
15 | Such a dream , if it is realisable at all , is certainly one for the far future . |
16 | However , Strawson also draws a stronger conclusion from it — the conclusion that , since a theory of the determination of action is true now if it is true at all , such a theory would have to be compatible with our distinction between behaviour towards which reactive attitudes are appropriate , and behaviour demanding an objective response . |
17 | Most people think if it , if it 's , if it 's real at all it 's er it 's much less important than weight . |