Example sentences of "if we have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Seeing so much technology in use , the car was ‘ looked over ’ to see if we had a radar detector — we did n't .
2 Right so if we had a test statistic greater than one point seven zero on a T ratio .
3 Right , so if we had a test statistic greater than three point eight it would reject our null hypothesis .
4 It would be preferable if we had a system where people could become more involved in important government decisions , be able to register an opinion on government policy , and show the government the way in which public opinion is moving .
5 If we had a union worth anything they 'd look into it . ’
6 and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ?
7 If we had a microwave it would n't be , would it ?
8 ‘ We started from scratch by saying that if we had a brand new game called rugby what would it be like ?
9 If we had a sailing boat , we could go out now and bathe in moonbeams . ’
10 If we had a Chancellor prepared to do that , then I believe we could achieve it , ’ said Mr Brown .
11 I mean if we had a firm of workmen in they 'd
12 That if we had a response here of two one zeros I 've scored at the bottom of that , we 've actually got two of the logic terms matching from this particular class .
13 To demonstrate the size of such numbers , one is driven to make strange comparisons ; for instance , if we had a cube for each of the 4.325 X 10 19 patterns , they would form a stack about 260 light years long ; and a volume consisting of one cube for each of the 8.858 X 10 22 patterns with marked centres would be about three-quarters the volume of the Moon .
14 Your history department or geography department may say well if we had a micro we 'd be able to do such and such and they 'll think about that in competition with other needs — textbooks or whatever _ so you 'll see departments using them , as I say , in the same way that we 'd use other sophisticated aids .
15 However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix .
16 If we had a car if we had a question on psychoanalysis ?
17 If we had a question on perception ?
18 if we had , if we had a blade
19 We could make a grotto if we had a sack to carry them in . ’
20 If we had a house , ’ Margery said , ‘ what would we call it ? ’
21 We could cut them into lengths if we had a file . "
22 Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this .
23 And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands .
24 It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible .
25 Much later on , if we had a need but no proposals , we might occasionally put that area out to tender .
26 you say that but if we had a cigarette lighter in in this car , a socket an electrical socket I 'd
27 Even if we had a method which did not use extrapolation it would not be much use because no one would believe the result .
28 And they 'd be all the same size so if we had a piece like those two stuck together
29 If we had a dog we could let it off the leash now and it would go and roll in the heather . ’
30 I said if we had a maintenance on it , maintenance was thirty odd quid a year , over eight years it would of cost us two hundred and forty pound
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