Example sentences of "if we [modal v] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'll only buy highly coloured food , we make it difficult for the industry to eliminate the additives which provide them . |
| 2 | If we can only slip inside Germany we can make for the autobahn and then for the Black Forest area . ’ |
| 3 | But what chiefly concerns me here is simply the amount of time needed for what we know to have happened in the geological past if we can only postulate " normal processes " . |
| 4 | If , I mean if we can only , if we can only invite the , the people that are he I mean the , they allow us release for this type of meeting mind you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And while there are scientific minds like those of Stephen Hawking many steps ahead of us we will always want to listen to their stories of exploration — even if we can only get glimpses of what they are trying to describe . |
| 7 | If we could only stay here longer in this village we could take the cure . |
| 8 | Even after our Mexican upbringing , it was a revelation to find such things still going on , unknown to the outside world — and there were still another thirteen thousand Indonesian islands to explore , if we could only reach and film them while there was still time . |
| 9 | Dorrainge said that at any minute Cathbad would start talking about holding a pig-sticking party , and Cathbad , who was plunging about happily in the wild sorrel , said , ‘ And if we could only hold a pig-sticking party … |
| 10 | When , however , we took time out and discussed it , we realized that the fact that we were more diverse offered us a strength against our competitors if we could only capitalize on it . |
| 11 | The crackling of a fire , the dawn chorus of the birds , the sound of waves upon the shore ; most of these go unnoticed and yet each of them can give a great deal of pleasure if we could only learn to become aware of them . |
| 12 | If we could only learn his secret , Implexion thought , staring into the moonlit darkness of Inanna 's bedroom . |
| 13 | Ixmarity would know no bounds , if we could only learn his secret . |
| 14 | Yet all of these events are metaphors , helpful signposts upon our inner journey , if we will only learn to read them . |
| 15 | Seven thousand injuries and many of these could be avoided if we will only take reasonable and proper precautions that we should do . |
| 16 | If we must only think " if " he met some accident while trying to investigate something he did n't like on one of the ships , he will have died while doing what he felt to be his duty , " I said . |