Example sentences of "if we [verb] at the [noun sg] " 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 | If we start at the top |
| 3 | If we start at the top instead of the bottom it 'd be a bloody sight more efficient . |
| 4 | If we play at the level we have produced against the provinces we are not going to win . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If we look at the music Elvis produced throughout his career , we find confirmation that the ‘ decline-and-fall ’ view will not stand up . |
| 7 | If we look at the range of statements about English teaching in books written before our Report we see how broad the subject is . |
| 8 | If we look at the history of the world , it seems surprising that love is included . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If we look at the budget on page 147 in percentage terms then it breaks down as follows : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If we look at the relationship between speaker-choice of variant and individual network structure , the picture becomes even more complicated . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We can see the problems if we look at the work of William Crookes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 23 | If we look at the information that we have on fluoroscopy , erm this was quite helpful er a hundred and thirty five patients seemed to have a fairly open prostatic fissure and the fissure was narrow in seventy seven erm most of the patients with obstructions had a narrow fissure . |
| 24 | If you did n't see it , it 's a tricky one but there 's a good way , we 've brought up a good point as well , if we look at the car when the car comes up , who said Polo ? |
| 25 | If we look at the context of Tawney 's 1957 address to the extra-mural department at London University , we find that the idea that all serious educational movements in England have also been social movements was no intellectual abstraction . |
| 26 | But if we look at the chemistry and other science portrayed in comics and illustrated periodicals , we can see an interesting shift in public attitudes over the past few decades . |
| 27 | It has been suggested ( White , 1978 , p. 101 ) that if we look at the delivery of key speeches in the Supreme Soviet , for example , there was no evidence that prominent groups were gaining proportionately more influence vis-a-vis the party , which may demonstrate that there is no good reason to assume that industrialized societies necessarily develop similar political characteristics . |
| 28 | If we look at the summary table P S O two , and sticking column two , gives us annual average building rates for nineteen eighty one , ninety three . |
| 29 | " The role of quantitative evidence can be understood more clearly if we look at the interrelation of the three concepts of DEVIANCE , PROMINENCE , and LITERARY RELEVANCE . |
| 30 | If we look at the nature of work as developed through the application of scientific management principles we find that workers are only engaged in ‘ part ’ tasks rather than ‘ whole ’ ones . |