Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not risk , as we would have done if we had handled the Bill in any other way , leaving those matters which come at the end of the Bill — as the Scottish provisions do — not to be debated fully . |
| 2 | If we had followed the M R C protocols er the numbers er would have been much smaller in the lower risk group and erm the erm there was more effort placed in the high risk group than erm there would have been we actually did . |
| 3 | In most of the examples discussed in this chapter , the finished product is a smooth curve which resembles what we might have drawn if we had smoothed the raw data by eye ; looking from the smooth back to the rough we could usually see the trend in the raw data . |
| 4 | I signed a two-year contract and would have honoured that , even if we had missed the play-offs . |
| 5 | as abruptly as if we had seen a ghost . |
| 6 | At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea . |
| 7 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 8 | ‘ But who knows what would have happened if we had made the early breakthrough tonight ? |
| 9 | Our neighbour from the next door flat , a Dutch Javanese married to a Scotsman , came rushing in to see if we had heard the news . |
| 10 | We may well wonder whether the ambiguity in the word servus does not hide a fundamental ambiguity running right through the period ; and if we had asked the abbot of Saint-Germain , he might have answered that the servitude of serf and slave alike was a small matter compared with man 's servitude , since the Fall , to the devil ; and that all men were slaves . |
| 11 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , although I welcome the economic measures to assist the Soviet Union — granted , as he rightly says , because of the courage of President Yeltsin in implementing his reforms — the other side of the coin is that it would have been a terrible mistake if we had jumped the gun and granted the assistance before the reforms were implemented ? |
| 13 | It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun , as the Opposition wanted . |
| 14 | Indeed , I wondered if we had attended the same event . |
| 15 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 16 | ‘ If we had lost the four big carp , sport on the canal would have been ruined . |
| 17 | You know , even if we had lost the Cup , it would still have been a very good year for French players . |
| 18 | I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves . |
| 19 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 20 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 21 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
| 22 | Klaus Maurice , the secretary-general of the German quasi-governmental agency that negotiated the deal , said at the time : ‘ If we had pursued the lawsuit in Dallas , the legal fees would have greatly exceeded the amount we agreed to pay . ’ |
| 23 | If we had pulled a goal back then who knows what might have happened . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We gave away two stupid goals but still would have got something from the game if we had taken the chances we created . ’ |
| 25 | Newry manager Terry Nicholson said : ‘ We would have been in the game with a better chance if we had taken the two chances that came our way early on . |
| 26 | if we had taken the most recent trend , it would have been over the last three years . |
| 27 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 28 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 29 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
| 30 | The base categories selected for the explanatory variables are old and poor , to try to avoid negative paths ; if we had used the young as the baseline , we would have certainly produced a negative effect of old age on preparedness to break the law , for example . |