Example sentences of "or if a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everything i s all right you can proceed , or if a problem is detected , the surveyor will give an estimate of the likely costs required to put it right . |
| 2 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 3 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 4 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 5 | Or if a wife was earning , working or had a pension and did use her allowances , but the husband was paying forty percent , the same switch of investments , transferring income to the wife , even though it was chargeable at twenty percent or twenty five , was relieving the husband 's forty percent . |
| 6 | If a Shusui 's Doitsu scales are going to turn greyish black , rather than a sky blue , or if a Kumonryu is going to lose all its black and turn into a valueless Doitsu Shiromuji , it will have done so in adolescence . |
| 7 | For example , if a user does not have DC Operations privilege then it will not be possible to generate a Design Change , or if a module is password protected then access to that module will not be automatically given . |
| 8 | The original owner 's invoice should show either the current cost of the goods if supplied to the repairer for nothing , or if a charge is made the amount to be paid . |
| 9 | The tax was paid by the occupier ( or if a house was empty by the owner ) at the rate of two shillings per hearth in equal instalments at Ladyday and Michaelmas . |
| 10 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 11 | Some lifts have rails that can fold up at the bottom if space is tight or if a doorway is going to obstructed . |