Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be give a " in BNC.

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1 " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother .
2 If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries .
3 if I 'm giving a single ear piece , cos they wo n't be quiet , otherwise they will get lost that way
4 If you are given a box of chocolates they should not represent ruin and damnation .
5 If you are given a written warning , you may be asked to sign a copy to acknowledge receipt .
6 He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums .
7 The only point that I would make is that if you are giving an opiate it will have many of the same effects and if I had to choose , I would probably prefer the opiate to diazepam .
8 If you 're given a job — Grasp it !
9 So you should be halfway through your battle if you 're given an assignment erm that that is a resale
10 Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more .
11 I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever .
12 The moral to be drawn is that if we are to give an account of knowledge which does not include a requirement of certainty , our account should make room for the notion of certainty somewhere ; if it sees certainty as a requirement for a knowledge claim it needs to be able to explain in its own terms why that should be so .
13 However , the main reason for mentioning it in this methodological discussion is to show how subtle and fine-grained our analysis must be if we are to give an adequate account of the function of language variation in close-tie communities .
14 If we are given a program of the form
15 This equation is not easy to solve numerically as it stands ; however , if we are given an approximation unc to an eigenvalue , we write unc for the exact eigenvalue , which therefore satisfies ( 4 ) , so that we obtain
16 Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a
17 If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ?
18 If we were given a clean opportunity , the job of turning Linford into a millionaire would be a breeze .
19 Right , so given a choice between erm , an average , a guaranteed income of say fifty pounds per hectare right if they 're given a cer a certain , if that fifty pounds is certain every year , alright , they will choose that every time in a , er , well just yes .
20 The youth Law changes are in their infancy and are an asset to the game if they are given a fair chance .
21 If they are given a vote of confidence this season it could bring dividends .
22 The point to note about the above defences is that if they are given a wide construction by the courts ( and it is too soon to tell , as too few cases have been brought ) , then the risk of prosecution diminishes even further .
23 Hence if shares are given a preferential dividend they are presumed to be non-participating as regards further dividends , and if they are given a preferential right to a return of capital they are presumed to be non-participating in surplus assets .
24 The same clearly applies to attendance and voting ; if they are given a vote in certain circumstances , ( e.g .
25 The task may be simplified for trainees if they are given a hard copy of the 15 documents so that an appropriate system for naming the files can be selected ; file extensions , eg. LET , MEM , REP , may be used to assist identification .
26 However , they are likely to get the best start in life if they are given an ample helping of peat-like compost in the hole .
27 ( Interesting echoes of The Iron Man here — any drama is likely to contain elements of other stories from home or school ; it 's good if they are given an opportunity to make these their own . )
28 At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit .
29 In many respects , rocks are like pitch , which flows like a liquid if it is left unsupported for long enough , for example on a steeply-sloping roof , but will also break suddenly along clean shiny fracture surfaces if it is given a sharp blow .
30 According to quantum theory , a microscopic system will only vibrate if it is given an amount of energy at least equal to the frequency of vibration multiplied by Planck 's constant .
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