Example sentences of "if we [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top . |
| 2 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
| 3 | If we start at the top |
| 4 | If we start at the top instead of the bottom it 'd be a bloody sight more efficient . |
| 5 | If we play at the level we have produced against the provinces we are not going to win . ’ |
| 6 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 7 | slot people in and we 've , we I I mean i if we look at the Colin situation . |
| 8 | If we look at the tissues as they become increasingly inflamed in , for example , a developing boil , we can see how the cells work together . |
| 9 | If we look at the state of our imaginative literature , we must observe in it a grossness , even an indecency of conception , and an inflowing tide of slang and vulgarity and other forms of ugliness which tend to corrupt imagination and barbarize language . |
| 10 | If we look at the music Elvis produced throughout his career , we find confirmation that the ‘ decline-and-fall ’ view will not stand up . |
| 11 | If we look at the range of statements about English teaching in books written before our Report we see how broad the subject is . |
| 12 | If we look at the history of the world , it seems surprising that love is included . |
| 13 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is those on low incomes , watching others getting richer , who are prepared to break the law ; if we look at the statistics of actual law-breaking , after all , criminal prosecutions are most often brought against people from the poorer sections of society ( Baldwin and Bottoms 1976 ) . |
| 15 | If we look at the budget on page 147 in percentage terms then it breaks down as follows : |
| 16 | After all , if we look at the inheritance of many genetic characters such as human height or skin-colouring , it does not look like the work of indivisible and unblendable genes . |
| 17 | Now because score A has plus one , B has plus one er then it 's negative , negative , slight difference there on the negatives but both negatives and both pos both positive , what you 'd say for those sets of scores are that there 's probably a positive correlation between A and B and if we look at the total of each one of those multiplied together , it comes up with about plus eight . |
| 18 | If we look at the relationship between speaker-choice of variant and individual network structure , the picture becomes even more complicated . |
| 19 | Yet if we look at the procedures for embedding , it is not easy to see why one should count and the other not . |
| 20 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 21 | And I think if we look at the effects of the internal market in this situation , what the internal market will achieve is er a situation where this community and all the neighbouring communities that use will be |
| 22 | If we look at the effects of corruption on program performance we can identify three broad categories . |
| 23 | If we look at the reasons why kin shared homes with each other in the past , three themes emerge which help us further to understand why there have been fluctuations in co-residence . |
| 24 | That the fathers took this view of the Divine Drama is not obvious , the reason being that if we look at the development of theology from the first Great Council of Nicaea ( AD 325 ) to the Council of Chalcedon ( AD 451 ) it is dominated by the disputes concerning the nature of the Holy Trinity and Christological issues . |
| 25 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 26 | But if we look at the air conditioning explanations we we reckon that the conditions likely to lead to sickness and , and the related illnesses that were mentioned er was , the low humidity that that we thought might er , be in the area erm , because it dries out the and enables viruses to enter the body more more easily . |
| 27 | If we look at the insurance order and the one relating to building societies , it is quite clear there that the auditor has to be acting in his capacity o er as auditor . |
| 28 | We can see the problems if we look at the work of William Crookes . |
| 29 | However , if we look at the phenomenon of life in terms not of individuals but of the species as a whole , the necessity of personal death becomes obvious . |
| 30 | Successful borrowing and taxing were different sides of the same sound coin of reputation , but their relationship can best be understood if we look at the pattern and structure of each in turn . |