Example sentences of "if we [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
| 2 | " Not if we keep gossiping like this . " |
| 3 | This means risks of the order of , say , being gored by a buffalo if we shoot an arrow at it , being struck by lightning if we shelter under a lone tree in a thunderstorm , or drowning if we try to swim across a river . |
| 4 | ‘ What do you think will happen if we get stopped with this ? |
| 5 | First of May , if we get rid of the youngsters , first of May might be a bit of problem cos there 's |
| 6 | If we get paid per arrest then to get a decent wage we will have to do it . |
| 7 | ‘ If we get eliminated on Sunday I could have come over straight away . |
| 8 | It becomes possible , if we remain committed to living and working with men , to identify the terms on which we shall participate and what re-negotiation must go on if these relationships are to be transformed . |
| 9 | Unger quotes Russell , ‘ uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful , but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of fairy tales ’ ( 1983 : 29 ) . |
| 10 | If we wish to continue to be a force in the field of movement and exercise then we each have to move with the times , and adopt a streamlined , professional and positive approach to all areas of the Medau Society 's work . |
| 11 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 12 | There are two basic assumptions that have to be made if we wish to infer from this that X causes Y . |
| 13 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 14 | One of my main concerns is nursery-school education , and I wonder if we 've progressed at all from Margaret Thatcher 's quote in 1972 : ‘ Within the next 10 years nursery education should become available without charge … ‘ |
| 15 | because if one division , we know how many , each d i if we 've got for each division the number of agreements , the number of sessions , the number of staff we 've got three common factors , different numbers obviously |
| 16 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 17 | because I do n't want to put them off either , I mean if we 've got to the |
| 18 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 19 | Life will be much pleasanter and smoother if we become resigned to that fact , if we become friends instead of enemies . " |
| 20 | For example if we make say for example five pence on the bottle and we or for cap er one of these for twenty bottle tops , that 's a quid which is paid for . |
| 21 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 22 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 23 | Much is lost in Bible reading if we forget to look beyond the substitute word to the personal , intimate name of God himself . |
| 24 | But fortunately the dice are almost always loaded in their favour , and if we decide to fight with them the end result , for them and for us , can be that ‘ Out of this nettle , danger , we pluck this flower , safety ’ . |
| 25 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 26 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 27 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 28 | We , also , have to be able to goto Blackburn and come away with a result if we expect to advance in the Cup any further than the 4th round . |
| 29 | And if we want to talk to you again we 'll get in touch . |
| 30 | If we want to use up most of our ration of luck in our theory of the origin of intelligence , then we have n't much left over to spend on our theory of the origin of life : we must come up with a theory that makes the origin of life almost inevitable . |