Example sentences of "if we [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we can truly say we are free of that fault and our understanding is such that our motives do not stem from intolerance , then we can be angry . |
| 32 | If we can ever persuade them to make any more there should they they should be cheaper . |
| 33 | For some suggestions on what it might do , if we can ever find it , see Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) . |
| 34 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 35 | It needs to be it needs to be at one at four , one at six or something like if we can possibly do it |
| 36 | We do n't want this to get around if we can possibly avoid it . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ We want to avoid a major incident if we can possibly help it ! ’ |
| 38 | Similarly , we could follow up people 20 years on to assess the results of our child care work , but even if we could successfully trace them , is it right to contact them after all that time when their spouses and children may not know of their earlier histories ? |
| 39 | If we could n't measure it , we could n't improve it . |
| 40 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 41 | It is rather like feeling that the dark companion of Sirius is somehow less certainly known because we infer its presence from its gravitational effect upon the Dog Star than it would be if we could actually see it — as if gravity were somehow less real than light . |
| 42 | We were determined not to start off with a mortgage round our necks if we could possibly avoid it . |
| 43 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |