Example sentences of "if we [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top . |
| 2 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
| 3 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 4 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 5 | If we start at the top |
| 6 | If we start at the top instead of the bottom it 'd be a bloody sight more efficient . |
| 7 | If we play at the level we have produced against the provinces we are not going to win . ’ |
| 8 | But if we look at the chemistry and other science portrayed in comics and illustrated periodicals , we can see an interesting shift in public attitudes over the past few decades . |
| 9 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |
| 10 | After all , if we look at the inheritance of many genetic characters such as human height or skin-colouring , it does not look like the work of indivisible and unblendable genes . |
| 11 | If we look at the internal organs there is not much to distinguish a chimpanzee 's heart or liver from our own . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is those on low incomes , watching others getting richer , who are prepared to break the law ; if we look at the statistics of actual law-breaking , after all , criminal prosecutions are most often brought against people from the poorer sections of society ( Baldwin and Bottoms 1976 ) . |
| 13 | The peril of getting caught in an information loop is made plain if we look at the following facts . |
| 14 | If we look at the budget on page 147 in percentage terms then it breaks down as follows : |
| 15 | If we look at the tissues as they become increasingly inflamed in , for example , a developing boil , we can see how the cells work together . |
| 16 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 17 | If we look at the nature of work as developed through the application of scientific management principles we find that workers are only engaged in ‘ part ’ tasks rather than ‘ whole ’ ones . |
| 18 | That the fathers took this view of the Divine Drama is not obvious , the reason being that if we look at the development of theology from the first Great Council of Nicaea ( AD 325 ) to the Council of Chalcedon ( AD 451 ) it is dominated by the disputes concerning the nature of the Holy Trinity and Christological issues . |
| 19 | And if we look at the patristic understanding of atonement , what hits us with startling freshness is that the Divine Drama is alive and pulsating with the tension and conflict of the Great Battle . |
| 20 | If we look at the ways in which we handle daily tasks , we shall probably find a strong ritual element there , and that a fair proportion of the setting-to-rights we do is as much for our personal well-being as from physical necessity . |
| 21 | If we look at the range of statements about English teaching in books written before our Report we see how broad the subject is . |
| 22 | However , if we look at the phenomenon of life in terms not of individuals but of the species as a whole , the necessity of personal death becomes obvious . |
| 23 | If we look at the reasons why kin shared homes with each other in the past , three themes emerge which help us further to understand why there have been fluctuations in co-residence . |
| 24 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 25 | If we look at the two charts in figures 21 and 22 , we can see how they intermesh . |
| 26 | Yet if we look at the procedures for embedding , it is not easy to see why one should count and the other not . |
| 27 | " The role of quantitative evidence can be understood more clearly if we look at the interrelation of the three concepts of DEVIANCE , PROMINENCE , and LITERARY RELEVANCE . |
| 28 | If we look at the state of our imaginative literature , we must observe in it a grossness , even an indecency of conception , and an inflowing tide of slang and vulgarity and other forms of ugliness which tend to corrupt imagination and barbarize language . |
| 29 | If we look at the relationship between speaker-choice of variant and individual network structure , the picture becomes even more complicated . |
| 30 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |