Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 2 | Perhaps if we can arrive at some sort of specific amounts or some research in that direction , we might Mr Chairman , be able to take representations to government in a more positive way . |
| 3 | perhaps if we can quickly , I mean I do n't want a lot out of Tesco 's , it will just save turning out , I do n't mind turning out this afternoon but , if the traffic |
| 4 | I think it was fifty , I do , but I 'm not sure oh perhaps if we can get over there at the end of the , well it 's the end of the month next week anyway in n it ? |
| 5 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 6 | And perhaps if I can understand it more , then |
| 7 | And not to go into too much depth , basically if I can find the switch . |
| 8 | There are one or two things you have to do and you can always do them better if you can see what you 're doing . |
| 9 | To say instead , ‘ I hear you better if I can see your face ’ is more positive . |
| 10 | If permission is refused to a Part I application , no direct compensation is paid , but it may well be possible to compel the local authority to purchase the property compulsorily if it can be shown that the property has no reasonable beneficial use . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously if we can get his support and if he comes up trumps , it will be marvellous , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I I going to weight of of criteria first of all , I think this very great weight should be applied to this criterion because obviously if you can not serve the new settlement satisfactorily then it should n't be developed in that location . |
| 13 | articles , books and stuff like that which talk about this thing erm it helps obviously if you can link in what you 're asking people to some of these previous ideas , theories , bits of evidence |
| 14 | But he added : ‘ Obviously if it can not be provided by voluntary means that would be an entirely different ball game . ’ |
| 15 | In turn , they will be able to buy only if they can raise the money to bid , which depends on investors ' assessment of the risk and likely return . |
| 16 | The normal definition , that tasks will be executed at Community level only if they can not be satisfactorily dealt with at national level , begs the most important questions which can ever be asked in a democratic system : who decides ? how ? what for ? |
| 17 | That there will be fierce opposition to such changes is fairly certain , and there will be vociferant arguments against them , and whilst these must be listened to , they must be allowed to have influence only if they can help in the process of bringing into being the new philosophy or religion . |
| 18 | Governments can raise tax revenue only if they can identify the activities on which the tax rates apply . |
| 19 | I want to make it absolutely clear that general practitioners voluntarily choose to run fund-holding practices and are not forced by the Government to do so — and GPs will take that step only if they can see benefits for their patients . |
| 20 | We all agree that small stores are important , but they can remain viable only if they can carry out their trading on Sundays . |
| 21 | Overseas markets too are affected , for only if they can reach ports at reasonable cost and efficiency can goods be readily exported . |
| 22 | It has decided that individual states can refuse imports of waste from neighbouring countries , but only if they can prove that the trade is dangerous to their health or environment . |
| 23 | It is only if we can read that record that we can discover some very important biological characteristics of human beings , since ( to repeat an earlier point ) it is through convention , convention that has a history , that human nature is expressed . |
| 24 | ‘ All right , but only if we can come back here . |
| 25 | ‘ Only if we can find the document , ’ Charlotte cautioned . |
| 26 | But , without your low-calorie dressing to hand ( you could smuggle it in a hip flask , perhaps ) , order a baked potato in restaurants only if you can resist that terribly high-calorie sour cream or butter . |
| 27 | THERE 'S a feast of live football this week — but only if you can get near a TV set with a satellite . |
| 28 | it 's only if you can reinforce it |
| 29 | ‘ It is , but , ’ she was stung into replying , ‘ only if you can keep all your salary for yourself . |
| 30 | * Analysing the structure of a text is useful only if you can make something of it , such as linking it with something else about the text in a correlation or causal relation ( see p. 53 ) . |