Example sentences of "if we [verb] that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can explain this pattern if we remember that in the normal prose condition subjects were receiving both a syntactic and semantic context . |
| 2 | But if we deny that as a possible choice to the children , we tell them it 's wrong ( which they are very used to ) but we withhold from them a dramatic experience which , if handled carefully , would allow them to understand the morality of the situation . |
| 3 | The equivalent of the entire strength of the West Yorkshire constabulary is absent on an annual basis through sick leave , if we use that as a means of illustrating the depth of the problem , and , by improving on that , more police officers , who are expensive , would be available . |
| 4 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 5 | If we accept that as a precondition of change , we have to accept that those changes must come about democratically . |
| 6 | This certainly seems to be true if we consider that at the time the activity ( such as using a book ) takes place , the person concerned is certainly doing it in preference to doing anything else . |
| 7 | For instance , much of the fear about scientists playing God and creating children can be dispelled if we consider that in the process of in vitro fertilization , the scientist allows the sperm to meet the egg in the laboratory instead of the Fallopian tube , which is blocked . |