Example sentences of "if we are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Firstly the price of admission went up by 50pc at the beginning of the season a lot of money in an area which still has among the worst unemployment rates in mainland Britain ( and the lowest amount of disposable income per head of population if we are getting into statistics ) .
2 There is , then , no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change .
3 If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us .
4 Yet if we are to pronounce on the desirability or otherwise of individual monopoly situations , or proposed mergers , this is clearly what is required to provide an unambiguous policy recommendation .
5 If we are to proceed in our quest or to search our land we have to accept that we are unlikely to do so , unless we accept some measure of control ourselves .
6 If w if we are taking as a political thing .
7 Erm we believe , er if we are to demonstrate to our clients that we are as good or better than our competitives competitors , then we need certification .
8 If we are to point to government growth , then different conceptions of the term might lead to different measures of growth .
9 If we are to profit from an international perspective on curriculum management , we have surely to deepen our questions .
10 If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ .
11 If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater .
12 Such was the magnificent ineffability of the Resident , who functioned , if we are to judge by this account , in an atmosphere better described as one of brilliant improvization than of the sober pragmatism for which Indirect Rule was supposedly renowned .
13 But I repeat if we are united in a common baptism united together as the body of Christ in the world the primary union in Christ is acknowledged .
14 But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual .
15 If we are acting for a group of shareholders , some of whom may not be Corporate Finance Clients ( eg in the sale of shares in a family business where any of the shareholders have no active business interests ) , care must be exercised .
16 Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance .
17 Clearly , there are further topics to be placed on the sociologist 's agenda when studying teachers ' work if we are to move beyond the assumption that we all know about teachers and teaching .
18 If we are to move beyond this state of affairs , the cultural task for disabled artists and culture workers is threefold .
19 If we are to move to an era of low or nil inflation and to the European way of doing things , whereby house prices will not increase , I do not know what will happen to the economy of the south of England or to unemployment .
20 But if we are to move towards the maximum recycling of plastics , and the maximum environmental benefit , then food packaging should not be ruled out .
21 If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces .
22 If we are to move towards freer trade , all those export subsidies must go , yet in the negotiations we are compromising .
23 If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages .
24 ‘ Tax changes are going to have to be carefully considered if we are to continue on the path to recovery . ’
25 We apologise for the outspokenness of this letter , but it is felt that if we are to continue as a national organisation of good standing , we must put our house in order before it is too late .
26 But if we are speaking as Christians , we must quickly add that this situation is a problem only because of the Fall .
27 One should comment however that God in God 's unity , if we are speaking of monotheism , has in fact been conceived as male and not female !
28 Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ .
29 If we are dealing with a ‘ suburban tomb ’ , then the word suburban suggests , though it need not mean , the life of the modern city .
30 It is almost as if we are dealing with quite another God .
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