Example sentences of "if we [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
| 2 | But at other times , if we sought to impose a level of rates against strong market opposition . |
| 3 | If we go to see a band , we do n't just send an A&R person , one of our product managers or maybe the sales director might come as well . |
| 4 | If we go to consider the folk as being on the ‘ inside ’ we then assume that what is on the ‘ outside ’ can only be impersonal processes that just have effects upon people . |
| 5 | But if we proceed to draw the line , where exactly will it fall ? |
| 6 | If we try to analyse the conception of possession , we find two elements . |
| 7 | If we try to identify the media pressed into the service of God 's revelation of himself in the Bible , there is an astonishing variety . |
| 8 | ‘ If we try to re-cross the desert without water and provisions for the st'lyan , we 'll end up walking . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 10 | Yes , she thought , I 'd hate it if we had to leave the party . |
| 11 | We do not risk , as we would have done if we had handled the Bill in any other way , leaving those matters which come at the end of the Bill — as the Scottish provisions do — not to be debated fully . |
| 12 | If we had followed the M R C protocols er the numbers er would have been much smaller in the lower risk group and erm the erm there was more effort placed in the high risk group than erm there would have been we actually did . |
| 13 | I signed a two-year contract and would have honoured that , even if we had missed the play-offs . |
| 14 | as abruptly as if we had seen a ghost . |
| 15 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 16 | Our neighbour from the next door flat , a Dutch Javanese married to a Scotsman , came rushing in to see if we had heard the news . |
| 17 | We may well wonder whether the ambiguity in the word servus does not hide a fundamental ambiguity running right through the period ; and if we had asked the abbot of Saint-Germain , he might have answered that the servitude of serf and slave alike was a small matter compared with man 's servitude , since the Fall , to the devil ; and that all men were slaves . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , although I welcome the economic measures to assist the Soviet Union — granted , as he rightly says , because of the courage of President Yeltsin in implementing his reforms — the other side of the coin is that it would have been a terrible mistake if we had jumped the gun and granted the assistance before the reforms were implemented ? |
| 19 | It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun , as the Opposition wanted . |
| 20 | You know , even if we had lost the Cup , it would still have been a very good year for French players . |
| 21 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 22 | Klaus Maurice , the secretary-general of the German quasi-governmental agency that negotiated the deal , said at the time : ‘ If we had pursued the lawsuit in Dallas , the legal fees would have greatly exceeded the amount we agreed to pay . ’ |
| 23 | If we had pulled a goal back then who knows what might have happened . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We gave away two stupid goals but still would have got something from the game if we had taken the chances we created . ’ |
| 25 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 26 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
| 27 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 28 | It would have been better if we had had a valuation number from the outset which may well have proved more satisfactory with regards to initial enquiries . |
| 29 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 30 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |