Example sentences of "if [adv] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 2 | What I am suggesting is you knew there was an armed man in the flat , you were worried he was under the bed and if only concern was to get that bed up and over to check he was n't there , you did n't bother to wait to get Julie off it . |
| 3 | Tests revealed it contained formic acid , which a doctor from Newcastle University said could be lethal to a child if only teaspoonful was swallowed . |
| 4 | If only desire were a plum-stone. all dried and hard , but it is soft and juicy and luscious . |
| 5 | Indeed , if only heartwood is present but the last ring itself post-dates the artist 's death , this too condemns the piece . |
| 6 | She wondered if perhaps Time was behaving properly and that Johnny had visited the cottage , prowling through the rooms , as she found herself doing often enough , but had been unable to reach her . |
| 7 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 8 | But if ever proof was needed that cricket in the Republic has cut across old racial divisions , it arrived as Wessels powerfully pulled Javagal Srinath for his 17th four to reach three figures . |
| 9 | If ever ambiguity was king , then it is now . |
| 10 | I knew the squadron was ordered out that night and he would be amongst them , and if ever death was in the face of a man , it was in his that afternoon . |
| 11 | One , firstly , if equal distribution was to be achieved peasant mobilization and increase produc erm if equally distribution was to achieve its goals of peasant mobilization and increased production , there had to be enough land available to bring most peasants up to an independent pe peasant status without encroaching upon the existing er middle peasants . |
| 12 | If indeed poverty is less pervasive , why are so few people saying so ? |