Example sentences of "[noun sg] if we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Equally with a sensation , saying ‘ by ‘ pain ’ I mean that ’ will only achieve the desired effect if we have some means of separating characteristics which are to be relevant from those which are not .
2 In biology if we copy each others answers and not to blame o each other when we get them wrong .
3 He said that we should travel in pairs — never more than two at a time — so as not to arouse suspicion if we met any Germans or Fascists .
4 Perhaps it may be easier to understand this concept if we consider that matter ( from a crystal to a human being ) is composed of atoms and sub-atomic particles .
5 That 's how much that would be your share if we shared six pizzas between two of us and it 's going to be the same as I said when i said well you share with your mum and Natalie .
6 Thus , a mechanistic system is closed and an organic system is open to the environment If we take local government as an open system we can see that inputs from the environment will include the following :
7 But you will remember that we ran into trouble if we pressed that point to its logical conclusion .
8 No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ?
9 No well if you had ten pounds shared between a hundred of us we 'd all get the same amount if we had one pound shared between ten of us .
10 We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it .
11 that is , that is what , that is what exists to do , or one of the things that exists to do as the U K sales company our business is to give the projections for a particular piece of business , and if we see any other similar bits of business around it that 's fine , that 's , that needs to be added to it , but to give our vision of that particular piece of business , feed that into the marketing people in , and say , look , this is the situation if we go this way , this is what we think is going to happen , if we do this , this is going to happen , if we do n't do this , this is what 's going to happen , so that that can be fed into an overall picture , and they will come back , I presume , and say , right , we now have enough information to know that it 's going to be worth =vesting , investing in production of sixteen double O fours in er Peter .
12 There is an obvious reduction in travel if we sample 10 herds and then 20 animals within each .
13 Paddy and I shared the neurosis of spending longer than necessary calculating where we would be on what date if we maintained that day 's speed .
14 In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world .
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