Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at other times , if we sought to impose a level of rates against strong market opposition . |
| 2 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 3 | as abruptly as if we had seen a ghost . |
| 4 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 5 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 6 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 7 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 8 | If we had pulled a goal back then who knows what might have happened . ’ |
| 9 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 10 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 11 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 12 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 13 | It would have been better if we had had a valuation number from the outset which may well have proved more satisfactory with regards to initial enquiries . |
| 14 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |
| 15 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 16 | If we 'd had a row . |
| 17 | If we 'd had a child there would have been movement ; we 'd have watched him growing up , seen him change , worried about his schooling , and so on . |
| 18 | They are reputed to have said , ‘ If we 'd had a telegram like that , we 'd have gone to the moon . ’ |
| 19 | If we 'd had a church wedding , she 'd have done the white-lace-and-trimmings bit , the full veil-and-trail number . |
| 20 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah I realize that but the thing is if we 'd had a phone call to say look , we 're going to be this late , |
| 22 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 23 | Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one ! |
| 24 | And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently . |
| 25 | I mean it could have been done if we 'd got a go-ahead . |
| 26 | Course , he wanted to know if we 'd got a video we could lend him . |
| 27 | [ 6 ] If we wished to test a new theory about Napoleon 's allergy to snuff , say , it would not make sense to examine look-alikes of Napoleon 's clothing . |
| 28 | If we decided to introduce a new category in the ‘ status ’ attribute , called coursework , having a ‘ unit-points ’ attached of 10 , we can not add it to the relation MODULE ( Figure 3.25(b) ) because we have not decided which ‘ module ’ or modules to attach it to . |
| 29 | And I , I actually tend to subscribe to the view , you know , that if we did have a surgery in it would be a non-event . |
| 30 | Well it 'd show willing if we did get a bit of all on would n't it ? |