Example sentences of "if [pron] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Subtext : I will not split the party if I am made chancellor .
2 I had nearly drowned , just lost the largest trout I was ever likely to see , and she asks if I am having fun ?
3 I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge .
4 SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way .
5 If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back .
6 If I was to spend race day reporting as a spectator , then the least I could do was arrive early and attempt the course myself .
7 yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it .
8 Oh I know but , if I was getting studio time there 's no way I 'd be going through the
9 I felt as if I was taking part in history and the results were spectacular .
10 What if I was to say inauguration
11 He wanted to know if I was going park .
12 Walesa told the paper on July 25 : " If I was to face anarchy , or widespread strikes , I would have to rely on force to save the country . "
13 I blew through my lips as if I was breathing fire .
14 We headed out along the waterfront towards the port , but it felt as if I was treading water .
15 ‘ When Paddy Ashdown parachuted me in , I asked him what happened if I was taken prisoner .
16 ‘ But it 's not as if I 'm facing surgery , or anything drastic like that .
17 I I 'll do that , if I 'm doing plastic bags at charity shops I 'll check
18 If I 'm then doing things , if I 'm doing beef gravy I put the beef stock cube , and either one or two Oxo 's
19 For example , if I 'm starting college and searching for somewhere to live , I might come up with a dozen possible ideas .
20 If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ .
21 If someone is playing rugby full-time in that country then why should n't they have the opportunity ?
22 Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' .
23 The Queen of the Night must understand these instincts , if she is to have control over them ; she must know her own wildness , and sense within herself the vigilance of the owl and the cunning of the fox before she can bring them into her domain .
24 The artist may live passionately through every brush-stroke , but the weaver can not — she needs a clear head and a sense of the goal before her if she is to make order and substance out of the strands with which she works .
25 And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help .
26 She listened purely as if she were receiving information intended to entertain , not to disturb , from the radio .
27 She says she would probably end up being ‘ paranoid ’ if she were to reach supermodel status .
28 Then she smiled though her eyes remained cold as winter and said , ‘ Are you enjoying your time in the Army ? ’ — as if she were making conversation in a drawing-room , Carrie thought , instead of standing in a hay field in summer in a long , silk ball gown .
29 The woman on the screen frowned as if she were having difficulty seeing them .
30 She spread out the balance sheet of her life rather as if she were playing Patience .
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