Example sentences of "if we [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future generations will never forgive us if we let Carnmoney Hill go . ’ |
| 2 | If we let Blagg go to hospital the cops get him , and he could be up on a murder charge . |
| 3 | Inter-paradigm debate is very rare and indeed , if we follow Kuhn in casting doubt on the final scope of Popper 's falsifiability criterion , impossible . |
| 4 | Beyond Soviet borders , if we follow Moscow 's own definitions , there are three circles of influence : at the outer rim , a variety of states enjoying relations of friendship or alliance with the USSR ; then , a group of countries characterised by dependence and ‘ solidarity ’ ; and , finally , an inner circle characterised by subordination . |
| 5 | If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself . |
| 6 | If we follow Bakhtin in tracing the origin of the novel back to Menippean satire , this unusual use of tense can be understood as a typical novelistic device in that it brings the ‘ completed ’ past into the present and ‘ contemporizes ’ it . |
| 7 | We all know that parachutes form themselves into a hemispherical shape as they fill with air ; but , for simplicity , it is better if we follow Hugh 's example and assume that we are dealing with a flat disc . |
| 8 | Thus the War of Independence remained , if we except O'Donnell 's African conquests ( 1860 ) , the only satisfactory exhibition of nationalism on a large scale . |
| 9 | The Spanish Enlightenment , as an intellectual movement , was second-rate and derivative : hence the confusions consequent on combining borrowings from the earlier Spanish diagnosticians of national decadence ( Ustáriz , Ulloa , and Ward ) , from Colbertism , the Physiocrats , and Adam Smith ; hence its failure — if we except Goya , who shared the horror of superstition common to the supporters of luces — to fling up a European celebrity . |
| 10 | ‘ If we had Lord Boddy in the Parent-Teacher Association , ’ they 'd think , ‘ we might have a little influence at County Hall . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd m , be much more worried if we had Germany outside the European Community . |
| 12 | If we had Aunty Mary |
| 13 | ‘ Just imagine how we 'll feel if we get Alzheimer 's . ’ |
| 14 | If we got Terry to do that we 'd be well away . |
| 15 | However , this can not be divorced from the fact that , in the minds of the Soviet leadership , Soviet prestige had become inextricably linked to the fate of Cuba : ‘ One thought kept hammering away at my brain : what will happen if we lose Cuba ? |
| 16 | If we contrast Richards 's symbolism with the semiotics of the European structuralists , we shall be able to clarify a fundamental difference of principle between his view of knowledge and experience and theirs . |
| 17 | EVEN if we ignore BBC Breakfast time 's unsupportable decision to support a diurnal astrologer , the verdict must be : not too well . |
| 18 | It says there , how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation , if we ignore God 's offer , if we ignore the ga , the the offer of Jesus Christ , of forgiveness and of life , how shall we escape ? the apostle asks . |
| 19 | If we blow Sorley he 'll just sell the van and do a runner . ’ |
| 20 | If we relate Prague School theory and Jakobson 's poetics to the five questions about the literary text listed in our introduction , we will find , not surprisingly , that their position in almost every respect is substantially the same . |
| 21 | We acted as if we owned RCA , that we were RCA , that we had this corporation . |
| 22 | Tye and Sheppard also wrote ‘ Westron wynde ’ Masses and these are almost the only big English masses after Taverner 's ( if we exclude Lady Masses and the three much later examples by Byrd ) . |
| 23 | And if we ask St Jude , who is the patron saint of lost causes , to lend his assistance I think between them they should be able to return the lost medal , do n't you ? " |
| 24 | If the latter , and if we took Sonnet 20 as a key declaration of intent , then the paucity of the We might indeed imply that the two halves of this relationship are irredeemably twain . |
| 25 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
| 26 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
| 27 | If we equate God 's blessing with the nice things that happen to us then they were not blessed ! |
| 28 | Okay , well do you mind if we take Kath |
| 29 | If we take Cournot 's time-honoured example of the mineral water duopoly , with the exception that we suppose developing a spring involves a fixed cost F , after which all the water desired can be extracted at a constant marginal cost ( of c , possibly zero ) , then we have a natural monopoly in the sense that average cost is continually declining . |
| 30 | Chairman , if we take Mrs , Mrs 's point under the children 's services plan which is later in your . |