Example sentences of "if we [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For parties , they are quite a bright lot of students , if we are operating Thursday , Friday , Saturday and Sunday , they say aha there 's no service Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 2 | What do we need to know if we are to teach Humanities to Johnny ? |
| 3 | If we are to argue design 's social significance or to model its social relations this must be based on our understanding , our explicit , sharable and imperfect understanding as to what " design " is and what design does . |
| 4 | ‘ If we are taking responsibility for the stock and the write-off of obsolete and redundant stock , then the supplier is giving us improved discounts ; that 's essentially the deal , ’ Mr Barker answers . |
| 5 | It 's as if we are taking part not in real life but in a piece of reportage on the British constitutional system ’ ( 22 October 1964 ) . |
| 6 | If we are to support children in their reading we need to encourage them into libraries , to assure them that libraries are pleasant places , and that librarians are pleasant people equipped by education , training , attitudes , and commitment to serve them . |
| 7 | Is there any point in continuing the development of new implants if we are using revision as the criteria of failure ? |
| 8 | If we are to take account of the world in which our students now live — the world of mass media , information technology and global communications systems — and help them think critically about it , we must develop new teaching approaches , drawing together the theories , skills and research techniques of all academic disciplines . |
| 9 | They make their point clearly and forcefully : if we are to take population seriously we must stop thinking on terms of controlling births , and think about the relationships of social power in order to fit the " missing piece " into the population puzzle . |
| 10 | If we are to oppose love to such wily , muscled concepts as power , money , history and death , then we must n't retreat into self-celebration or snobby vagueness . |
| 11 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 12 | If we are considering distances far away from the origin of Fig. 2.3 , i.e. |
| 13 | Liberal Democrats recognise that if we are to improve Britain 's disappointing economic performance we have to change the governmental system which produces it . |
| 14 | ‘ Today it is 40pc-plus and we must cut it down if we are to improve survival rates of colon , rectal , breast and other cancers as well as cardio-vascular disease . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless if we are to plan services to meet the needs of people , we need to consider consumer representation far more seriously . |
| 16 | ‘ If we are telling stories , we are telling stories . |
| 17 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 18 | It seems to me that , if we are spending £3 million on training someone to fly a fast jet and if , when he leaves the force — there are a lot of people leaving before their time is up — he is not being used in the reserve forces , that is a tremendous waste of a national resource . |
| 19 | These processes must be analysed if we are to gain understanding of global politics and to assess the relationship between global and domestic political systems . |
| 20 | However , this process now needs to be spelled out a little more clearly if we are to gain insight into the effectiveness of the increase in money supply on the level of interest rates . |
| 21 | If we are to build self-confidence we must score lots of goals , no matter how minor these might be . |
| 22 | If we are to know Jesus and his teaching , then , we must turn to the New Testament , to the testimony of those he himself chose and trusted to pass on his teaching . |
| 23 | If we are to help managers understand motivation then it is the universal goals , values and beliefs that they need to know about . |
| 24 | If we are investigating adults , then a favourite sampling frame used by sociologists is the electoral register ( Hough and Mayhew 1983 , 1985 ; Marshall et al . |
| 25 | Lawrence said : ‘ I must act because the Swindon game is terribly important if we are to win promotion . |
| 26 | In November 1987 , Baroness Hooper , the Under Secretary of State for Education , stated in the course of a television programme : ‘ If we are offering freedom of choice to parents we must allow that choice to operate . |
| 27 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
| 28 | In a later elaboration of his perspective , Anderson argues more generally that kin relations must always be understood in terms of the kind of calculations people make , and this should provide the starting-point for any analysis : ‘ if we are to understand variations and patterns of kinship relationships , the only worthwhile approach is to consciously and explicitly investigate the manifold advantages and disadvantages that any actor can obtain from maintaining one relational pattern rather than another ’ ( Anderson , 1972 , p. 226 ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the gist of what we need to know if we are to understand Jesus ' words and actions will be evident . |
| 30 | All we have at the moment is that there must be some non-contingent link between mental state and behaviour if we are to understand talk about other minds . |