Example sentences of "if we [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . )
2 I think colleagues on this side will seek to press the minister even further on the latest developments in France and indeed what influence we can have to make sure that if we pass these orders today , they do become the basis of the European elections .
3 I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight .
4 If we pass this policy we can save at least £5bn to help to put this country on its feet again and to make decent lives for ordinary people possible , ’ he said .
5 ‘ What does it-mean if we pass this motion ? ’
6 If we cancel this event because of a shadowy terrorist threat it will be an admission that these people can control our lives .
7 ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory .
8 If we accepted this entirely arbitrary target , the review would be seen merely as a cost-cutting exercise and not about the reform of social security .
9 The underlying fear was that if we accepted any connection we would be back to the world of incomes policy .
10 that is , that is what , that is what exists to do , or one of the things that exists to do as the U K sales company our business is to give the projections for a particular piece of business , and if we see any other similar bits of business around it that 's fine , that 's , that needs to be added to it , but to give our vision of that particular piece of business , feed that into the marketing people in , and say , look , this is the situation if we go this way , this is what we think is going to happen , if we do this , this is going to happen , if we do n't do this , this is what 's going to happen , so that that can be fed into an overall picture , and they will come back , I presume , and say , right , we now have enough information to know that it 's going to be worth =vesting , investing in production of sixteen double O fours in er Peter .
11 No it 's okay not to worry , do n't worry about it , it 's alright , we 'll come and pick it up then so if we come any time after sort of tomorrow brilliant , that 's great , thanks every so much for your help , bye .
12 If we change some of those responses , then it is likely that the people who have used and relied on them will not ‘ know ’ us any more , and their demands will have no further effect .
13 It does n't sound much , but if we ignored those extra few hours , after four years our calendar year would be a whole day ahead of the solar year .
14 The vapour at this boiling temperature is represented by point D. If we plot all such points for compositions over the complete range we obtain the upper curve in figure 6.15 .
15 If we heat this above about 100°C it becomes rubbery .
16 If we refer this motion to the C E Cs the International Committee will investigate this matter fully , once we get reports from Scotland and Lancashire .
17 If we let all the chemicals from a coffee farm get into a river we will have a cumulative problem . ’
18 My view is and it 's a widely held view within the association and , and the informed clubs is that if we let that situation go on and do nothing about it we will have a decreasing er number of people going and number of people going sailing .
19 If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis .
20 But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission .
21 If we subtract this ‘ replacement ’ investment from ‘ gross ’ investment , then we are left with ‘ net investment ’ .
22 And say , well we 'll either if we restrict this .
23 Okay now if we join those up , I 've got one here it 's okay .
24 Then unc If we invert this , e.g. by the methods of 2.2 , we obtain unc We postmultiply this by an arbitrary column co : here we choose co = e1 and iterate as usual .
25 We can place some detecting devices , photographic plates or Geiger counters , say , which will register whether the electron has arrived at A or B. If we analyse such an experiment what we obtain is a chain of correlations : if the electron 's spin is " up " , then it will be deflected to A , and then the Geiger counter at A will click or if the electrons spin is " down " , then it will be deflected to B , and then the Geiger counter at B will click .
26 If we analyse all the uses to which income is put , then it is immediately obvious that for the economy as a whole consumers ' expenditure on goods produced in the domestic circular flow is only one element .
27 If we analyse this scenario we can see why the manager might be surprised about the encounter .
28 If we consume more energy than we expend , the surplus is stored as fat .
29 And even if we succeed this time , the one who inherits his mantle many succeed the next .
30 If we follow this , the play with conventions , in television narrative subgenres as much as in language , may not simply be a classical ( or postmodern ) fascination with language games , but may also contain a ‘ naturalist ’ ( or modernist ) desire to revitalize forms that have become stale and hackneyed , and are no longer adequate to the world in which people believe .
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