Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] if we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we got leave to use it in the playground as far as I can imagine but we made an awful division or if we did n't it pretty quickly in the class . |
| 2 | Not for the Germans that weary British cry that if we spend money on training workers , someone will poach them . |
| 3 | We have written to everyone in the ES who reads braille to offer this service but if we have missed anyone , our apologies . |
| 4 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 5 | In the long run I think it will be a loss to the Government , for the very simple reason we have got to meet this competition and if we do n't in a few years time the housewife possibly will be paying a lot more money for the produce . |
| 6 | Ron as far as the Saudi claim is concerned you will be aware that I have written to all regions explaining the reason why we have not presented a claim , no other union has presented a claim in British Coal and if we do present a claim at this point in time , I 'll tell you what the answer will be . |
| 7 | Alright , well we 'll try and get you some information and if we do we 'll give you a ring . |
| 8 | But nevertheless diamond is the unstable form and if we crystallise carbon at atmospheric pressure it will form as the more stable graphite . |
| 9 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We still have this idea that if we do something morally wrong , or what They said was wrong , there 'll be some kind of Divine Retribution , ’ said William . |
| 11 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 12 | Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer . |
| 13 | These two definitions are tautologous when taken together : a computer-generated work is one created in circumstances such that there is no human author but if we attribute authorship to a human it can not be computer-generated . |
| 14 | The difficulty is that , if the most preferred mate is slightly different from a familiar member of the opposite sex and if we do not know how to measure the difference , we can unwittingly present the animal with a novel object which is less attractive than the familiar . |
| 15 | Of course there 's a further complicating factor that if we do actually put the breaks on , people may either lose interest or go |
| 16 | Sporadic nucleation is assumed to be a first-order mechanism and if we consider that a two-dimensional disc is formed , then . |
| 17 | It 's my firm belief that if we continue to stifle debate on general issues at our section conferences then we also restrict the flow of knowledge within the union . |
| 18 | So we have to assess the current state and if we did n't know then in our particular example , cos if we had n't made the room numbers had been done . |
| 19 | I think Chair , a far better idea might be that it , when we get particular applications from a given district , that the officers actually ascertain er , a bit of erm , information from that particular district in order to present to the Committee , to take into account when they 're doing things , I think that would be a far better way because if we have politicians elected in that particular area , they 'd certainly probably come and , and try and hold the sway for that particular item , and there may be justifiable grounds on a countywide basis not to concede it . |
| 20 | ‘ In that case I suggest we stick to it , because I have the strong feeling that if we start digging up what happened five years ago we will start arguing , and that wo n't help anybody . ’ |
| 21 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 22 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 23 | It is a commonplace observation that if we lose a night 's sleep we tend to sleep a bit longer on subsequent nights , as if to make up a " sleep debt " . |
| 24 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 25 | ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody . |
| 26 | Thus even though we have not yet managed to find a primordial black hole , there is fairly general agreement that if we did , it would have to be emitting a lot of gamma rays and X rays . |
| 27 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 28 | Or it may arise because we are pursuing a particular path and if we went back upstream we could avoid the problem instead of trying to solve it . |
| 29 | Erm I think that that in the same way as if we went down too low , could be considered to be er a change of strategy and I think what we 're about is to try and reflect the currently er approved structure plan strategy . |
| 30 | And the sailor said , ’ Have it your own way but if we do n't we 'll never have kids . ’ |