Example sentences of "if we [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Not if we keep gossiping like this . " |
| 2 | If we had to rely on other teams slipping up I would n't be quite so relaxed Kevin Keegan |
| 3 | ‘ If we had to rely on other teams slipping up I would n't be quite so relaxed . ’ |
| 4 | But , if we had bought in some sort of penal clause , then I mean firms might be inclined to look very critically at the qualifications their engineers have got . |
| 5 | ‘ What do you think will happen if we get stopped with this ? |
| 6 | Manager Billy Sinclair said : ‘ We would have got into the match better if we 'd scored from that penalty . |
| 7 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 8 | I think if we got rid of all those open topped tour buses in York , traffic would be a lot easier . |
| 9 | So really , if we got shot of all that cos really , you want to make another hatch |
| 10 | Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ? |
| 11 | If we got add minus three , that 's the same as take away plus three , just take away three . |
| 12 | There are two basic assumptions that have to be made if we wish to infer from this that X causes Y . |
| 13 | One of my main concerns is nursery-school education , and I wonder if we 've progressed at all from Margaret Thatcher 's quote in 1972 : ‘ Within the next 10 years nursery education should become available without charge … ‘ |
| 14 | because if one division , we know how many , each d i if we 've got for each division the number of agreements , the number of sessions , the number of staff we 've got three common factors , different numbers obviously |
| 15 | Life will be much pleasanter and smoother if we become resigned to that fact , if we become friends instead of enemies . " |
| 16 | Does my hon. and learned Friend recognise that , whatever the concern in this country about the mess in Yugoslavia , there would be even more concern if we started sending in British troops , whether as part of a peace-keeping force or anything else ? |
| 17 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 18 | If we want to use up most of our ration of luck in our theory of the origin of intelligence , then we have n't much left over to spend on our theory of the origin of life : we must come up with a theory that makes the origin of life almost inevitable . |
| 19 | and I do n't know if we want to agree to that straightaway in which case we get on to the next item . |
| 20 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 21 | Basically what if we do increase to that price . |
| 22 | The last-night party , a hallowed Easter Course tradition , was studded with starts of the highest calibre ; we were richly entertained throughout the evening by acts that were all professional to the core , even if we did see through some of the flimsy disguises . |
| 23 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |
| 24 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 25 | If we have a purpose , make use of context and prediction ; if we learn to distinguish between different levels of generality in a passage ( e.g. general and specific information , expression of likelihood , frequency , and degree ) our reading will be much more effective . |