Example sentences of "[conj] if we can " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he had the Sierra and he said I do n't know whether he 'll want it for , it could be sort of three or four weeks if they 're gon na repair his car or if we can get one within the company like at another depot obviously they 'll get that for him rather than hire one off you . |
| 2 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 3 | For the sake of architecture , which we all believe in , it is vital that if we can not accept the decision to proceed with enthusiasm , we at least accept the decision with democratic grace . |
| 4 | When applied to child abuse , then , it is assumed that if we can identify the characteristics associated with actual or potential abuse we will be able to identify and hence predict and prevent the problem . |
| 5 | ‘ Bradford sells itself on its friendly image and I still believe that if we can get kids on to the campus , we will improve recruitment , ’ she says . |
| 6 | It is suggested that if we can do this , the demands of epistemology are satisfied . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , we feel certain that if we can allude to fun one more time , make a firm statement about it , it will return like the birds after winter . |
| 8 | But I think that if we can grab him just for half and hour |
| 9 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 10 | It is the Government 's view that if we can implement the package of energy efficiency measures , not least through , for example , the home energy efficiency scheme , additional resources for the energy management assistance scheme , the best practice programme and our regional and publicity activities , we shall be well on the way to achieving significant additional savings . |
| 11 | I share the hon. and learned Gentleman 's view that if we can avoid a vacuum , that will be in the interests of a democratic society . |
| 12 | These studies show that if we can define a population with a high risk of recurrent disease then the outlook may be improved by medical treatment . |
| 13 | SERAFIN : I was just thinking how often philosophy begins with the promise that if we can manage to get our thinking right about some basic concept we can then go on to restructure our thinking about everything else — and how rarely this later part of the programme is ever reached … |
| 14 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 15 | Said skipper Alan Kernaghan : ‘ The lads are all agreed that if we can go unbeaten to the end of the season we 'll probably go up . |
| 16 | However if you can unify against a , a target then there 's a lot more of you against this thing so what Mao I think is , is saying that if we can utilize this |
| 17 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 18 | Hence , the emphasis of our work which , broadly speaking , is concerned with helping either organizations , by which I mean galleries and arts centres , or individuals , in other words artists , craftsmen , photographers , and is increasingly directed to the former in the belief that if we can help them , these centres and galleries , towards adequate levels of staffing and expertise , they in their turn , and much less artificially than we , will be able to help the individual artist . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's worth a try , ’ he agreed , ‘ and if we can appeal to Sugden 's better nature we can work out a compromise . ’ |
| 20 | And if we can hold it , the foal will still be frightened of us , and we will have to give it a lot more handling than we would have had to initially to undo its instinctive fear of us and learn accept us instead . |
| 21 | Better still , we enjoy solving mysteries : and if we can not solve them then , when the auspices are right , they can acquire the aura of magic . |
| 22 | ‘ We also have a very talented side and if we can play consistently we can win . |
| 23 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 24 | If we can do that and if we can hold the dam , as it were , for a few more years , that will give us time to assemble the ethical arguments against whaling , and to get them diffused further in the world . |
| 25 | If so , and if we can measure it ( though it is not easy to do so ) , that again tells us something about their welfare . |
| 26 | And if we can identify locally generated politics , are we justified in speaking of the ‘ local state ’ ? |
| 27 | If indeed there are dangers to the health of our children in exposure to low levels of lead , and if we can reduce this exposure by banning lead additives from petrol , then something can and should be done . |
| 28 | And if we can , do we learn anything that we did not know already ? |
| 29 | And if we can learn more about their sensitivity to ultrasonic sounds , we may finally grasp how they can ‘ know ’ that someone is approaching from a great distance . |
| 30 | And if we can enjoy a reducing diet , it follows that we wo n't mind following the basic principles in the long term . |