Example sentences of "if it [vb mod] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tess thought a good deal about the baptism , however , and wondered if it might mean that Sorrow could be buried in the churchyard , with a church service . |
| 2 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been elected or returned a Member of this House , or endeavoured so to be , by Bribery or any other corrupt practices , this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in such Bribery or other corrupt practices . |
| 3 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been tampering with any Witness , in respect of his evidence to be given to this House , or any Committee thereof , or directly or indirectly hath endeavoured to deter or hinder any person from appearing or giving evidence the same is declared to be a high crime and misdemeanour ; and this House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender . |
| 4 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath given false evidence in any case before this House , or any Committee thereof , this House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender . |
| 5 | If it should rule that the president 's actions were unconstitutional it would be a big step toward his impeachment by Congress . |
| 6 | Even if it should emerge that Moses survived longer than Methuselah and stayed alive in a monastery on top of Mount Sinai writing all the other later books of the Bible , including the Gospels , I would not be upset . |
| 7 | ‘ Show me the house , ’ said the Greek , ‘ and if it should happen that on the way we meet a sweet-seller … ’ |
| 8 | However , in other cases the courts have held that where a clause requiring best endeavours appears with an exclusion or force majeure clause , it qualifies the latter , so that the contractor can only rely on the exclusion or force majeure clause if it can establish that it used best endeavours ( see Yates and Hawkins , Standard Business Contracts : Exclusions and Related Devices , p165 ) . |
| 9 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 10 | I fully understood the principles which led the party to believe it could gain more of the ethnic minority vote if it could prove that a barrister of Afro-Caribbean extraction could become a Conservative MP . |
| 11 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |