Example sentences of "if we [vb base] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that if we speak of the ‘ rhythm guitarist ’ as such , the image of a second-rate underdog player springs instantly into view , playing a tiresome , subordinate role to a far more experienced ( and inexcusably vain ) lead player . |
| 2 | If we speak of the stylistic values of a non-literary text , we are interested in the way in which linguistic choices are adapted to communicative function — to such functions as newspaper reporting , advertising , scientific exposition . |
| 3 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 4 | We can only send flowers if we know of the occasion , either happy or sad . |
| 5 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if we think of a wheel or turntable , ‘ revolution ’ implies a mere turning , continual movement without progress . |
| 7 | other words , if we think of a mutation as a change in a single gene , then mutations are not diluted . |
| 8 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |
| 9 | If we think of the great 19th-century novels , published at a time when the novel as a form was still new , but confident , secure in its legitimacy as a writing form , we know that that kind of novel could not be written today . |
| 10 | If we think of the ways in which the term research is used , a variety of activities spring to mind . |
| 11 | In a sense , if we think of the context of say the late eighteenth early nineteenth century perhaps more , perhaps more specifically we think of the er , of the er erm early nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Does this point lose its edge if we think of the differences as socially rather than naturally produced ? |
| 13 | If we think of an individual asset to be purchased and financed from loan , then the authority begins with no capital . |
| 14 | But in most conversational contexts , if we think of an activity as connected with crime , we are likely to be thinking of an activity which is itself criminal ; and on the other hand , in all cases , activity which is itself criminal is by definition connected with crime . |
| 15 | And if we talk of the head or the brain as the locality of thought , this is using the expression ‘ locality of thinking ’ in a different sense … |