Example sentences of "if we [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen was filled with glorious smells of baking and Angus , with languid largesse , said he would n't notice if we ate a slice or two of his raisin bread , or of his apple and walnut . |
| 2 | Yet if we reflect a moment , we may realize that it is not so ingenuous after all . |
| 3 | If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges . |
| 4 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 5 | If we drill a borehole into the aquifer the groundwater will be under sufficient pressure to overflow from the borehole . |
| 6 | If we apply a voltage the current will appear after some delay . |
| 7 | If we regard a three-volume series of books as a complete discourse , for example , we can render its structure as in Figure 5 . |
| 8 | ‘ But if we avoid a slump in the second half of the season we should do it . ’ |
| 9 | At this stage a cynic might well say that even if we adopted a United States type of approach the courts would simply manipulate the labels . |
| 10 | Before I approach BIFU with a view to them taking this up for bank staff ( and others ) in general , I thought it would be good for staff morale and also for our members if we adopted a practice which was , after all , in use in 2,550 BC . |
| 11 | If we teach a horse to move to the right away from the pressure of a rider 's leg on their left side ; they do not seem to be able to reason that pressure on the right side is intended to make them move to the left . |
| 12 | FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We are concerned about the image of the game and if we receive a complaint it will be thoroughly investigated to see if it should be brought before our disciplinary committee . ’ |
| 13 | A spokesman said the complaints made so far have tended to be of a civil nature , but added : If we receive a complaint which can be substantiated then we will investigate it . |
| 14 | For example , if we seek a document on the economic history of Germany and we know that works on history are arranged first by country , then by social process and then by period , it will be easier for us to find this document than if the subdivision was less systematic . |
| 15 | But if we issue a Material Witness Warrant I believe the British would put him on the plane . ’ |
| 16 | In the current discussions with Stevie as to how much of that vintage stuff will be on the CD , if we reach a balance and I do n't think there 's enough , hopefully it will be on an additional CD somewhere down the line . |
| 17 | For this reason , if we keep a horse in conditions where it is continually bored and suffers lack of mental stimulation , the resulting anxiety may cause the horse to develop some very bad habits indeed . |
| 18 | If we sell a bed and the legs fall off , the customer wo n't come back . ’ |
| 19 | The County Council reallocates resources from things that it sells into things like new build , new schools ; if we sell a piece of a playing field or whatever , then we will put , plough the money back into capital resources within the education service somewhere else . |
| 20 | If we observe a pile of books hanging in the air , we might say : ‘ They must be resting on something . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , we seldom considered , in my early years with the company , the effect on a wife 's career if we asked a manager of promise to move to another part of the country . |
| 22 | Some of these 2.9 children will be male and some female ; if we assume a birth sex ratio of , say , 52:48 , i.e. probability of female birth = 0.48 , then the expected female births per woman is |
| 23 | If we assume a raindrop to be roughly spherical , then the path of a ray of light through a raindrop will be roughly as depicted in Figure 2 . |
| 24 | I think there are many purposes that the County Farms should have , and we need to look at what is the best value financially , that we can obtain for the people of Wiltshire , so when everybody talks about they 'd like their country schools maintained , they 'd like this that or the other bought , they 'd like Corsham station purchased , we could buy it easily if we sold a County Farm could n't we ? |
| 25 | Well if we win a quarter of a mill you wan na take it out of his house . |
| 26 | Seeing so much technology in use , the car was ‘ looked over ’ to see if we had a radar detector — we did n't . |
| 27 | Right so if we had a test statistic greater than one point seven zero on a T ratio . |
| 28 | Right , so if we had a test statistic greater than three point eight it would reject our null hypothesis . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If we had a union worth anything they 'd look into it . ’ |