Sentence examples for if there be from inspiring English sources

There is a mysterious litany in "The Store Windows Glitter" -- If there be abundant sand left (there is not) / If there be certainty and stillness (there is not) / If there be stalled brilliances and volatile undoings" -- that echoes several of T. S. Eliot's.

I doubt if there be another nation on the globe, having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book.

460 BC – 370 BC): "Peripneumonia, and pleuritic affections, are to be thus observed: If the fever be acute, and if there be pains on either side, or in both, and if expiration be if cough be present, and the sputa expectorated be of a blond or livid color, or likewise thin, frothy, and florid, or having any other character different from the common.

"The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous.

"But if there be no accountability, another president will feel free to do as he chooses.

One described the major drawback of a proposal for the government to guarantee bonds: "If there be profit, the corporations may take it; if there be loss, the government must bear it".

"My dear friends, if there be any among you who seek help in shouldering your worldly cares,….

And while they legislate, if there be truth in what preachers preach, souls are being dammed by force of circumstance.

If there be perversity somewhere, it's probably the kernel of a reality show or the focus of a dutiful blog.

If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them.

If there be a God, let him show himself!" He then witnessed a blinding light and felt an ecstatic sense of freedom and peace.