Example sentences of "if we take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I you know if we took that course as an example and wh what would |
| 2 | Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat . |
| 3 | In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world . |
| 4 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 5 | Indeed , if we take that conversation , as it unfolds , as constantly changing and renewing its own context , then the relationship just described must be constantly changing as well . |
| 6 | Well you know , if we take that scripture seriously , |
| 7 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
| 8 | So if we take five minutes . |
| 9 | However , if we take eleven years to the date of writing ( 1978–89 at Table 5.3 ) , we find that , while job losses were concentrated in manufacturing , they were again widely spread within it . |
| 10 | Yet if we take all elections held under the Triennial Act in the twenty year period from 1695 , including by-elections , we find that only nineteen constituencies avoided a contest altogether . |
| 11 | If we take good Y as the numeraire , and there is a mark-up m i , in sector i , then the price equations , with constant returns to scale , are . |
| 12 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
| 13 | If we take British world title winners by decade from 1892 onwards to the present , the picture that emerges not only refutes the hungry fighter theory , but suggests that better living standards produce more world champions than poverty does . |
| 14 | If we take reciprocal altruism seriously , method ( ii ) might conceivably operate in animals , although not in the case of age queues ; methods ( i ) and ( iii ) could not . |
| 15 | If we take some diesel down when we go , |
| 16 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 17 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 18 | If we take this point of view , it seems that we will gain a better understanding of the history of what is usually called standard English , because we will be able to separate out those issues that primarily involve the development of standard ( prescriptive or codified ) norms from those that do not . |
| 19 | If we take this quotation at face value , it is very difficult to see what possible set of physical circumstances could serve to falsify it . |
| 20 | Thus , a mechanistic system is closed and an organic system is open to the environment If we take local government as an open system we can see that inputs from the environment will include the following : |
| 21 | If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price . |
| 22 | That 's if we take any notice of them eh ? |
| 23 | That 's if we take any notice of them |
| 24 | Thus , if we take any volume of any gas at 0°C and reduce its temperature by 273°C at constant pressure , the final volume will be zero . |
| 25 | If we take these views literally we arrive at the notion of style as an optional additive , and there is an obvious problem : how can we judge when the factor of style is absent ? |
| 26 | If we take these characteristics of perception into an organizational setting , then the verbal and non-verbal signals still provide data for interpersonal relationships . |
| 27 | Which is that if we take these cards , instead of dropping in one at here there and everywhere and I doubt if anyone will take much notice of one , maybe I 'm a bit personally interested in , if I say could we all drop them in at Prestos in Rougier Street ? |
| 28 | For example , if we take those words there , I I hope that most of you can work out that that says , the cat , right , some of you can be difficult and say that you ca n't but I should think that most of you can . |