Example sentences of "if we have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlining the absurdity of Ireland 's proportional representation system — and make no mistake about it , if we had a proportional system in Britain , it would n't be that nice Paddy Ashdown holding the balance of power , it would more likely be the Reverend Ian Paisley and a couple of Welsh Nationalists — the issue of whether or not Cable & Wireless Plc can buy a stake in Telecom Eireann could bring the coalition government down : Fianna Fail realises that in order to bring in outside investment into the debt-strapped state phone company and increase the lamentable penetration of just 31 phone lines per 100 people , there is little alternative to privatising the company outright or at least bringing an outside investor , but Dick Spring , deputy prime minister and leader of the Labour Party , minority partner in the coalition , issued a statement saying that any privatisation ‘ would represent a breach of the programme of government . ’ |
| 2 | If we had a regular bus service rather than a regular train service |
| 3 | A study of leading businesses shows that a vast majority of British firms believe that if we had a Labour Government there would be slower growth , less investment , higher inflation and worse unemployment . |
| 4 | I mean used to say quite often erm er I 'd flat I 'd erm show my pay packet against your 's any day if we had a good week . |
| 5 | Then we get , I know our dentist was very good , we 've always said that if we had a good dentist and a good doctors we 're on our holidays , and we have , we 've been lucky wherever we 've been |
| 6 | If we had a perfect world we 'd be all alright . |
| 7 | As the DCSL recalls , the IS coordinator defended the demands made on the local library on the grounds that : If we had a decent school library I would n't need to do it . |
| 8 | ‘ If we had a full-strength team , you can rest assured we would take some beating in the First Division . ’ |
| 9 | If we had a rational energy policy , we could ensure not only that coal had a role to play now , but that it could continue to play an important role in the future . |
| 10 | But , if we had a feasible solution with d k , e k > 0 , we could reduce d k and e k by equal amounts without affecting feasibility and thus reduce the objective function , since w k > 0 . |
| 11 | If we had a well-oiled party machine , we should be able to move into a higher gear every now and again to win elections . |
| 12 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 13 | It would be sensible if we had a common system of training for the two sides of the profession ( apart from specialist subjects ) , so that the choice could be postponed until the last ; but this has not been done . |
| 14 | On the point made by the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) , does my hon. Friend agree that funding both for sport and the arts could be far higher and much more in line with demand if we had a national lottery ? |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 16 | Lauren , 29 , says : ‘ More business would come here if we had a proper exhibition and conference centre and the right facilities out at the airport . ’ |
| 17 | We would not have needed much of today 's debate if we had a proper energy policy . |
| 18 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 19 | Erm and so even if we had a full employment situation , we would still need an economic bonus strategy and I know the Conservatives wo n't agree with that , they were very reluctant the last administration to think about economic developments at all but , er eventually they realised the recession was quite er , quite serious . |
| 20 | If we had a sensible ordering of the legal profession everyone would start as a solicitor , moving to the Bar only when he felt ready to do so . |
| 21 | The Chancellor has clearly got the message about how an independent central bank would have to work if we had a single currency . |
| 22 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 23 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 24 | and if we have a close look hey there 's nobody in |
| 25 | P.S. We can plan our campaigns more effectively if we have a regular income . |
| 26 | If we have a perfect fit between what we want and what we get we do not bother about priorities . |
| 27 | Why huge job losses if we have a minimum wage ? |
| 28 | Thus , if we have a binary operation " X " we could produce an " iterated X on addresses A and B " which would operate as follows : Perform X between store locations A and B Update the addresses A and B Conditionally repeat The updating of addresses A and B might take place in private registers within the processor hardware , or in program-accessible registers ( such as the index registers ) . |
| 29 | If we have a fixed-length instruction word with one of the formats shown in Figure 3.1 ( a ) -(c) , then the number of bits required to specify such secondary information as an operand address limits the size of the operation code field , and therefore limits the maximum number of different operations with this amount of secondary information . |
| 30 | If we have a good summer . |