Example sentences of "if we [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |
| 2 | Note 1.11.5 Even if we count repeated roots according to their multiplicities ( and it is usual to ) the theorem still holds . |
| 3 | I think colleagues on this side will seek to press the minister even further on the latest developments in France and indeed what influence we can have to make sure that if we pass these orders today , they do become the basis of the European elections . |
| 4 | If we saw two blokes coming out of a pub rolling drunk we might wait to see what develops before acting . |
| 5 | When they took them away they said we could come and reclaim them any time we wanted , if we brought ten rupees . |
| 6 | If we issue new shares , you 'll end up with seventy-five per cent of the business and a large sum of cash . ’ |
| 7 | If there is a deficit on the current account , i.e. if we import more goods and services than we export , this deficit must be matched by a surplus on the capital account to make the account balance . |
| 8 | Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters . |
| 9 | ‘ I think they do n't mind if we trash some areas , ’ Biff had said . |
| 10 | If we sell more records there will be more people who enjoy the band and like the album . |
| 11 | In biology if we copy each others answers and not to blame o each other when we get them wrong . |
| 12 | If we win those games , then I 'll start thinking about what comes after that . |
| 13 | We are still in the driving seat in the League and if we win those games , we win the title . ’ |
| 14 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
| 15 | I would n't be surprised if we had sit-down protests or boycotting of home games . |
| 16 | We could all be happy , too , if we had audiences , if we had private tutors nodding and smiling and ticking our work . |
| 17 | If we had two pigs and another pig how many pigs would we have ? |
| 18 | It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would |
| 19 | If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how |
| 20 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 21 | If we had superhuman reactions then perhaps we could manage with a rigid pole , for we would then be fast enough to ease off when the fish made a sudden plunge . |
| 22 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 23 | So let's say if we had ten pounds on the table and a hundred people underneath . |
| 24 | Then he changed tack and asked us if we had any problems with his friends . |
| 25 | No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ? |
| 26 | If we had some wingers , Les , I tell you we 'd create havoc with our crosses . |
| 27 | Okay now so let's say if we had some numbers you you can you could make your own notes about this . |
| 28 | And if we had more arms we 'd finish them off . |
| 29 | If we had more specialists and more facilities , heart patients could be dealt with in a proper manner . |
| 30 | If we had several surveys at our disposal , and those aged 45 or less were always more prepared to break an unjust law , regardless of when the survey was undertaken , this would be an example of a pure age effect . |