Example sentences of "if we have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , dumbo , if we had a London street map and telephone directory , we could probably work out where she lives . |
| 2 | If we had a well-oiled party machine , we should be able to move into a higher gear every now and again to win elections . |
| 3 | If we had a larger sample , it would be easier to venture a firm opinion . ’ |
| 4 | Much later on , if we had a need but no proposals , we might occasionally put that area out to tender . |
| 5 | I did not know if we had a ‘ D. ’ |
| 6 | To demonstrate the size of such numbers , one is driven to make strange comparisons ; for instance , if we had a cube for each of the 4.325 X 10 19 patterns , they would form a stack about 260 light years long ; and a volume consisting of one cube for each of the 8.858 X 10 22 patterns with marked centres would be about three-quarters the volume of the Moon . |
| 7 | What scale would we use if we had a min/maj7 chord ? |
| 8 | But , if we had a feasible solution with d k , e k > 0 , we could reduce d k and e k by equal amounts without affecting feasibility and thus reduce the objective function , since w k > 0 . |
| 9 | Still they helped , especially if we had a loaf of bread to go with them . |
| 10 | ‘ If we had a full-strength team , you can rest assured we would take some beating in the First Division . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We started from scratch by saying that if we had a brand new game called rugby what would it be like ? |
| 12 | It would help a bit if we had a sailor around . ’ |
| 13 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 14 | Underlining the absurdity of Ireland 's proportional representation system — and make no mistake about it , if we had a proportional system in Britain , it would n't be that nice Paddy Ashdown holding the balance of power , it would more likely be the Reverend Ian Paisley and a couple of Welsh Nationalists — the issue of whether or not Cable & Wireless Plc can buy a stake in Telecom Eireann could bring the coalition government down : Fianna Fail realises that in order to bring in outside investment into the debt-strapped state phone company and increase the lamentable penetration of just 31 phone lines per 100 people , there is little alternative to privatising the company outright or at least bringing an outside investor , but Dick Spring , deputy prime minister and leader of the Labour Party , minority partner in the coalition , issued a statement saying that any privatisation ‘ would represent a breach of the programme of government . ’ |
| 15 | I mean if we , we 're preaching you should use recycled products we , if we had a few to sell at least |
| 16 | Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car . |
| 17 | We could cut them into lengths if we had a file . " |
| 18 | As the DCSL recalls , the IS coordinator defended the demands made on the local library on the grounds that : If we had a decent school library I would n't need to do it . |
| 19 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 20 | And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands . |
| 21 | Well if we had a long a long thing to read . |
| 22 | And they 'd be all the same size so if we had a piece like those two stuck together |
| 23 | So if we had a sixth and a twelfth well the sixth is the same as two twelfth and another twelfth makes how many ? |
| 24 | It would be sensible if we had a common system of training for the two sides of the profession ( apart from specialist subjects ) , so that the choice could be postponed until the last ; but this has not been done . |
| 25 | If we had a sensible ordering of the legal profession everyone would start as a solicitor , moving to the Bar only when he felt ready to do so . |
| 26 | Yes , it would be alright if we had a decent double bass . . |
| 27 | ‘ If we had a dog we could let it off the leash now and it would go and roll in the heather . ’ |
| 28 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Mayhap if we had a few more wizards among us we would not now be in the straits we are in . ’ |
| 30 | So if we had A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B it comes to two . |