Example sentences of "if [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 2 | If only we 'd been strangers |
| 3 | If only we realised in time , we would n't waste our lives on trash. why is the best thing in the world tied to the least lasting ? |
| 4 | ‘ If only we knew why , we 'd do something about it . |
| 5 | ‘ If only we knew why , we 'd do something about it . |
| 6 | ‘ If only we knew who was behind all this , ’ Monica mused . |
| 7 | If only we knew as much about John Major 's schooldays . |
| 8 | ‘ If only we knew the sort of people she was mixing with . |
| 9 | ‘ If only we knew what was happening , ’ women said to each other as news came that Holland had been flooded and then that Rotterdam had been blitzed and the Dutch had surrendered . |
| 10 | If only we knew where they took them , what spectacular finds we might make ! |
| 11 | If only we knew ! |
| 12 | Laplace suggested that there should be a set of scientific laws that would allow us to predict everything that would happen in the universe , if only we knew the complete state of the universe at one time . |
| 13 | Morse looked dubious : ‘ If only we knew when Kemp was murdered ! |
| 14 | If only we knew which genes to tinker with , which bits of chromosome to duplicate , invert or delete . |
| 15 | Some readers , particularly those convinced that if only we thought long enough , or prayed hard enough , we would discover reassuring tethering posts to which to secure our moral choices , will view with some disquiet the position reached so far . |
| 16 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 17 | Ah , if only we had clarinets too ! |
| 18 | If only we had . |
| 19 | The former UN Special Representative for Somalia , Mohamed Sahnoun , who resigned last year , said in August ‘ … if only we had intervened last November … now we are paying the price . ’ |
| 20 | If only we had a trolley . |
| 21 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |
| 22 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 23 | If only we had n't cut down those trees the view would be better . |
| 24 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 25 | if only we believed our eyes . |
| 26 | You see , if only we know about it , if we — if we can find the key , we can go and play there every day . |
| 27 | If only we did . ’ |
| 28 | The biggest nonsense is the belief that we can be physically immortal , if only we believe it . |
| 29 | The Green Consumer Guide is subtitled ‘ from shampoo to champagne ’ — the implication being that if only we learn to consume better , we can go on consuming more . ’ |
| 30 | If perhaps we regard it just as a , a technicality and an amendment of wording and where the statement of case prepared by the officers reads the development of a fifth terminal at Heathrow is supported in principal . |