Example sentences of "if we [vb base] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language .
2 If I turn from the P and L Account to the operating cash flow , er you 've got the F R S One cash flow in your er in your pack in the preliminary announcement obviously , but we er do n't find it terribly helpful , it 's not the way we manage the business so I thought you erm would forgive us if we present it in the way we think it 's a little easier to follow .
3 But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if
4 We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements .
5 If we get her on the show that really will be something cos I know she 's shy but well done .
6 if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it .
7 There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen .
8 If we strip it of the insulation apparently provided by its appeal to the technology of literacy , we will expose the same ethnocentric claims and uncritical faith in the observer 's own ways of thinking .
9 If we shoot you against a blank wall you might be in the middle of the city , or in the studio , or anywhere .
10 Alright , if erm , if we now so this is going to be his sort of , his opportunity cost right , his wage rate in the rural sense is going to , to opportunity cost , and the sum of the opportunity cost over time right , is going to be the present , you know if we discount that by some er , if we turn it into a present , a present value , right , the present value of that sum there , right , will determine life times income in agriculture .
11 Erm if we put it on the agenda , perhaps we could circ we 'll , we 'll recirculate the brief submission that we made , which was about a side of A four if you recall , to the er to the Department of the Environment .
12 If we put it in the fridge it will make it go all cold
13 Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks .
14 Even if we confine ourselves to the more usual outlets for creative expression — in the arts and sciences — there is similar ambiguity .
15 Even if we confine ourselves to the difference of aim between reformist and revolutionary parties ( or of social movements , which can be classified in a similar way ) , the distinction can not always be made in an absolutely clear-cut fashion .
16 Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms .
17 We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things .
18 Procedural due process is a matter of the right procedures for judging whether some citizen has violated laws laid down by the political procedures ; if we accept it as a virtue , we want courts and similar institutions to use procedures of evidence , discovery , and review that promise the right level of accuracy and otherwise treat people accused of violation as people in that position ought to be treated .
19 But if we want it as a function , right , I give you this person 's name is Sophie say , and she maps to her father .
20 George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . "
21 Okay , if we do it to the fourteenth of the second ninety four , er and then that 'd come up , I can tell you what we cos Peter 's just is halfway through it with Well I say halfway through it .
22 It 's good news if we do it on a fixed fee and say , we have had to enhance some of our rates
23 which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off
24 And then the thing in small print so we we because if we do it on the company 's headed notepaper , all we 'll manage ah per photocopy is one sheet .
25 If we send it to the manager , care of Mr Arthur .
26 If we see something on the side of the road , and we think the horse may shy at it , and we look at it very hard and carefully , the horse tends to be less likely to shy .
27 We do therefore need to consult with the health authority if we find ourselves in a position where we think we 're no longer going to be able to achieve those targets .
28 The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are .
29 If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up .
30 They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn .
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