Example sentences of "if one [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
2 | One can do that if one can identify excessive profits , wage levels which depend on restricting access to labour markets and gross inefficiency in the running of government enterprises . |
3 | If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways . |
4 | ‘ In some ways , they are usually well organised , although I think that one of the features of the indie scene , if one can use that expression , is that bands are used to doing a lot of basic things for themselves . |
5 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
6 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
7 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
8 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
9 | Indeed , if one could find some way of starting the downswing , one could probably hit a satisfactory shot with a club head swung on a chain using the stiffness generated by the tension . |
10 | This is the best that can be done to depopulate a matrix below its diagonal ; if one could remove infradiagonal elements as well , there would be no problem in finding eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix . |