Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
2 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
3 | The underlying fear was that if we accepted any connection we would be back to the world of incomes policy . |
4 | If we saw two blokes coming out of a pub rolling drunk we might wait to see what develops before acting . |
5 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
6 | When they took them away they said we could come and reclaim them any time we wanted , if we brought ten rupees . |
7 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
8 | ‘ It would be best if we continued this conversation elsewhere . ’ |
9 | It means if we had that spending assessment and our costs , instead of the listeners getting a bill for four hundred pounds in their letterbox in May they would get a cheque for over five hundred pounds . |
10 | But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . " |
11 | In as much as , if we are suddenly told , divest yourselves of County Farms , then we will be in a much better position to make a balanced decision , and to maximise return from those County Farms if we had that information available . |
12 | It was felt that if we had that information available that it might be worthwhile exercise to carry out some analysis of erm time was given or |
13 | I would n't be surprised if we had sit-down protests or boycotting of home games . |
14 | We could all be happy , too , if we had audiences , if we had private tutors nodding and smiling and ticking our work . |
15 | No well if you had ten pounds shared between a hundred of us we 'd all get the same amount if we had one pound shared between ten of us . |
16 | Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more . |
17 | So if we had two N A two S O four , that would be two times N A two you 've got four N As and two times the S O four . |
18 | If we had two pigs and another pig how many pigs would we have ? |
19 | It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would |
20 | If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how |
21 | The hon. Gentleman has told the House that , if we had proportional representation for councils , we would not have extreme Labour councils and that , somehow , the more widespread distribution of seats would stop that happening . |
22 | If we had proportional representation , the Conservative party would find itself with rather more influence in a Parliament in Scotland than it has here . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | So let's say if we had ten pounds on the table and a hundred people underneath . |
27 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
28 | Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles . |
29 | ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry . |
30 | Then he changed tack and asked us if we had any problems with his friends . |