Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 2 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 3 | ‘ If we had made political statements , Asterix would be too French . |
| 4 | If we had made different choices , we might have different industries , different types of towns and a different countryside . |
| 5 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 6 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 7 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 8 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
| 9 | If we had included more papers in the sample the coverage might have appeared more dense , but nevertheless it is clear that it is a minority of unusual cases which get most press exposure . |
| 10 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 11 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 12 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 13 | ‘ If we had shown any form at all outside Anfield we would be up amongst the leaders . |
| 14 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If we had found good reason to say no , to the first question , there are implications for how we say no to the second question . |
| 16 | Now this is a a sort of cost benefit benefit analysis based on what would have happened if we 'd followed these protocols ourselves . |
| 17 | I would imagine that if we 'd suggested that project engineering duties would beco |
| 18 | If we 'd fought that election on the trade union agenda , we would have won a lot more votes than the campaign issues chosen by the professionals . |
| 19 | If we had started on week one , where if we 'd had complete programme information up to week thirteen when , that 'd be more complete would n't it ? |
| 20 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 21 | It would have been better if we 'd got another word really . |
| 22 | Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people . |
| 23 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 24 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 25 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 26 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 27 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |