Example sentences of "if there be [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 Will he confirm that those luxuries included televisions ; and does he agree that if there is not to be an income tax rate of 35p to support those massive spending plans , they can be supported only by a large increase in VAT ?
2 If there is not to be a substantial gain realised on the sale of Target , it may be advantageous if management vendors sell for cash and obtain interest relief on new borrowings to invest in the buy-out ( see 4.4 below ) , rather than effect a share-for-share or share-for-debenture exchange .
3 But , if there is really to be any streamlining , Mr Rittner 's nettle must be grasped .
4 New constituencies would have to be devised , 325 in number if there were still to be 650 MPs .
5 That was our experience under the previous Labour Government and would be the experience of Londoners if there were ever to be the misfortune of another Labour Government .
6 It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us .
7 Preston , who did n't , sometimes wondered if there was more to it than that and he 'd actually been conceived there , in the waiting room of some remote platform or in the empty carriage of some forgotten train .
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