Example sentences of "if we [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If we drive at sixty miles an hour .
2 When the subject enters the political arena and becomes politically controversial , we assume an elective silence on the political issues and confine ourselves , if we intervene at all , to constitutional or legal questions or views on practical matters affecting the law and its administration where our views may naturally be expected and sought .
3 I just do n't know what it 's gon na be like , er , so I think if we , well at ten o'clock , if we left at ten , we 've got twelve hours to get down there
4 And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching .
5 well I think erm , the short answer is that I ca n't erm , erm provide the parties with any time on Friday , er , the case , this case has already some what over run it 's estimate , which has put pressure on the commercial judge as it is , there 's gon na be even more pressure on Friday , erm , I 'm afraid to say the , that the complexities of this case as such that I can not erm begin to think that even if we started at ten we would erm , necessarily finish within the hour , I have difficulties starting at ten o'clock anyway , I think we 'll simply have to erm , put the matter off , off until Monday morning I , Mr ca n't attend I really do n't think that I can erm put it off er any longer than that
6 If I touched your arm , if we smiled at one another , if we talked about that day and the rainstorm and the shock of the butts recoiling against our cheeks and Halliday dead on the moor .
7 If we look at industrial work it can be seen that it tends to be too much dominated by part tasks in that the worker is not involved with the delivery of the whole product but with a small component of it and even , at times , with a particular operation on that small component .
8 But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them .
9 Erm er changes in the central charges which always intrigues me I 'd like to know and erm if I may go back to erm paragraph seven where we 're saying you know allocated thirty five thousand in the committee development over and above the effects of inflation an and this subject six thousand seven hundred recycled savings is available for some revenue development or mortgage charges and then if we look at eight and shortfall in planning applications we are going to use that six thousand seven hundred to write off a shortfall in the planning applications .
10 If we look at all these issues — proportional representation , Scottish devolution , your relationship with Europe , the independent nuclear deterrent — you 've changed your mind on all of these .
11 So again if we look at all of these things across the top we 've got other things influencing across here when you go on holiday you , each of you in this room , you 'll probably have some idea beforehand of what you want to get out of that holiday .
12 The the difficulty in a sense that we got , if we look at two paragraphs towards the end the report .
13 For instance , if we look at religious culture , we can see that the monotraumatic theory is outstandingly good for totemism , the totemic aspects of polytheism and many aspects of monotheism .
14 If we look at each of the consonants just mentioned and see which of the features each one has , we get a table like this , where + means that a phoneme does possess that feature and — means that it does not :
15 If we look at regional Governments across Europe that do n't have to go cap in hand every time to some deadbeat in White Hall , right , they go straight to Europe and they network across Europe and they exchange ideas and things happen .
16 Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays .
17 The the particular point that that I wish to pick up on though was from M Mr Curtis and his reference to erm the draft P P G thirteen , and whilst I 'd say that the point of the H B F that it 's only a draft publication at this stage , there 's in my view been too mu much over reliance on the reference in there to self containment , you see if we look at that particular paragraph , two point one two , it actually says avoid the development of small new settlements which are not to , sorry , I 'll start that again , avoid the development of small new settlements which are not be likely to be well served by public transport , or which will not be largely self contained .
18 However , if we look at clear-up rates , those cleared up as a percentage of the total number of recorded offences we find that a 15 per cent decline from 41 per cent in 1979 to 35 per cent in 1988 .
19 Could I take er , a minute and , and just try and look at the steps that you 've gone through and I , I tried to write down as you were doing it , giving your presentation , the steps which I think everybody eventually went through either formally or informally and I think if we look at these steps you 'll agree yes , I needed that and I did that or , we did n't do it formally .
20 If we look at some further examples from Cecily O'Neill 's and Alan Lambert 's Drama Structures , we shall see that many group experiences are dependent on these kinds of simple structures .
21 How this is done relatively to the subject and the grades will be clear if we look at some of the grade criteria for history , published in 1985 .
22 If we look at intra-oceanic island arcs in more detail it is possible to identify several major morphological and structural elements that are common to many ( Fig. 3.7 ) .
23 I suppose if we look at British history there was a period in the last century and earlier where we did a pretty good job of conquering people , but we do n't feel too badly about that , but we feel pretty indignant about Germany trying to take a bit more territory at various points .
24 So if we look at this
25 If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers .
26 If we look at this chart here , this is you coming along here , you 're just walking along quite happily , and you go to cross the road .
27 Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this
28 If we work at that and strive for extra quality and performance , we can come out of the recession pretty good shape .
29 Erm as I digest Mr 's comments and the various implications erm of the things that he said , it 's more and more confirming for me that perhaps we may well be right in the step by step measured approach because quite clearly erm I suspect that if we run at this stage a preferred location , erm I suspect that the the opposition to that and there would be opposition to it , may well have may well prejudice the principle er of the new settlement .
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