Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germaine Meyer was wearing a sky-blue blouse that summer afternoon and Modigliani was immediately arrested by her colouring , a blend of rose and white , and asked her eagerly if he could paint her . |
| 2 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 3 | Perhaps if we could find out more about where they came from , we might be able to say why they came . |
| 4 | And er I think perhaps if we could put a c are are we allowed to put round the table some |
| 5 | And perhaps if you could stop the snow and see us all safely back to the quarry as well , that would be a big help . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps if you could learn a little tolerance . |
| 7 | But you will be receiving notification of the said meeting taking place and my colleague from Northern Irela Wales Northern Ireland , perhaps if you could have a chat with me in the corridor , I may be able to do something which can help you alleviate the sa situation between us . |
| 8 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |
| 9 | I think perhaps if you could have arranged her so that er this foot somehow was resting down here , well it might have been better . |
| 10 | Perhaps if I could remember them the whole mystery would be solved . |
| 11 | Perhaps if I could deal with Mr 's point first though cos I 'll just refer you I think to paragraph three point two , three year accident record there , fifty five injuries , seventy one casualties , many of them taking place on the distributor road network . |
| 12 | Perhaps if she could speak to Mahoney again , tell him what happened out by Mountpelier that morning , he would tell her more . |
| 13 | Basically if you could come up er , one group at a time explain er the of your programme and the reasons behind your programme , the assumptions that you 've made . |
| 14 | In terms of which you better if we could do that erm , if we could do that . |
| 15 | So if the lady was on fire , you 'd leave it basically to the Fire Brigade , obviously if you could help the lady , get a ladder up to the window to get her out of the room or something like that , you would do that , you would help in any way you can , but the real experts are the Fire Brigade so we leave all the er real technical stuff to the Fire Brigade . |
| 16 | Once , the Harvard training officer allowed a dealer to visit a wealthy businessman who had expressed an interest in picking up Hard Rock Cafe shares , ( as he had contacts there ) but only if they could meet up . |
| 17 | Only if we could picture the universe in terms of imaginary time would there be no singularities . |
| 18 | I agreed to marriage counselling but only if I could go alone , although I knew that going alone was a bit like filing fiddled expenses . |
| 19 | On this view , a doctor could avoid liability only if he could show that , apart from consenting , the patient was carefully studied and examined in a context where specialist medical and psychiatric facilities were available , that the consensus of expert opinion was that surgery was called for , and that this was explained to and understood by the patient before he gave his consent . |
| 20 | It referred to a note which he 'd included with the Firearm Certificate application form and the fee , saying that he ( Sampson ) had a chance at a Weatherby Magnum Deluxe rifle at a price that was madness , but only if he could wrap the deal up within a few days . |
| 21 | And so if we could start from these unquestionable little bits of reality , and build everything out of this by pure logical construction , we would have shown that the world is coherent and logical , and we would have shown that ordinary beliefs erm were not open to doubt , were rational and certain . |
| 22 | So if we could collect it all up together and when we are going down we could take the whole lot down out of the way . |
| 23 | So if we could show PC j false this would have the double effect of undermining the Gettier counter-examples and ( part at least of ) the first sceptical argument . |
| 24 | Chair , erm , every year we try and hold er , an event or something of interest to the local business community , to local industries , and we have contacts with local freight-forwarders , banks and companies that have exported , embassies , and we 're proposing that we erm , hold the event this year on the subject of exporting and how to do it , because we 've had very many small companies that might be clueless and want to know erm , exact nuts and bolts of it , so if we could run an event on that basis , and then use that event as the core of a group to take across in this case , Ireland , but perhaps in the future , Holland , who knows where else , to actually sell , using the services of erm , the Embassy in Dublin , our Embassy and the Chamber , with whom we have very good links , then it would be to the benefit of our businesses . |
| 25 | The R Y A does n't need an enormous subscription income and so if we could increase personal membership to say four hundred and eighty thousand , which happens to be the aggregate membership of our member clubs , this could be at a very much lower individual subscription and this in turn would facilitate selling membership to the nearly two million yachts persons who are not members of clubs . |
| 26 | When the nuclei of light elements join together or ‘ fuse ’ , energy is released ; what is more , the amount is more than the energy needed to push these nuclei into one another overcoming the electrical repulsion , so if we could accomplish this efficiently we would have a plentiful and dean supply of energy . |
| 27 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 28 | So if we could get into groups of maybe about four . |
| 29 | You ca n't play sport properly on a shoestring so if we could get a major sponsor for the world cup it 'd put a lot of people 's minds at rest so they could concentrate on their cricket |
| 30 | Energy in the brain comes from burning glucose , so if we could find out if , where and when more glucose was being used in the minutes after training , we would have a clue as to which areas of the brain were relevant to the memory storage process . |