Example sentences of "[adv] if we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if we can arrive at some sort of specific amounts or some research in that direction , we might Mr Chairman , be able to take representations to government in a more positive way . |
| 2 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 3 | I think it was fifty , I do , but I 'm not sure oh perhaps if we can get over there at the end of the , well it 's the end of the month next week anyway in n it ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps if we could find out more about where they came from , we might be able to say why they came . |
| 6 | And er I think perhaps if we could put a c are are we allowed to put round the table some |
| 7 | In terms of which you better if we could do that erm , if we could do that . |
| 8 | ‘ Obviously if we can get his support and if he comes up trumps , it will be marvellous , ’ she said . |
| 9 | ‘ Only if we can find the document , ’ Charlotte cautioned . |
| 10 | It is only if we can read that record that we can discover some very important biological characteristics of human beings , since ( to repeat an earlier point ) it is through convention , convention that has a history , that human nature is expressed . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , but only if we can come back here . |
| 12 | Only if we could picture the universe in terms of imaginary time would there be no singularities . |
| 13 | So if we would like further consultation apparently it was noted in view of the test carry out what we could do erm in fact the questionnaires have the response , I do share some of Mr 's er er worries that erm I think we ought to get out of the way and say to number one that this er . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So if we could get into groups of maybe about four . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 25 | So if we could determine how many primordial black holes there are now , we would learn a lot about the very early stages of the universe . |
| 26 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 27 | So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things . |
| 28 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 29 | We 'll go erm to our next caller very shortly who 's just waiting on the line , so if we can go to that caller yet , we ca n't just for the moment I 'm told . |
| 30 | So if we can break to your syndicate groups and start er the first role play cycle to get going , what , ten to four ? |