Example sentences of "if we [verb] our [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , if we change our attitude , we get rid of the craving that produces suffering . |
| 2 | Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels . |
| 3 | Discounting fears of secessionism he said : " If we clean our room , then no one will want to leave since the room is not dirty . " |
| 4 | If we let our imagination run a little , we may wonder what would be the effect of turning Britain into a tax haven , charging no taxes on profits or earnings and , instead , simply taxing spending . |
| 5 | If we regard our guide as simply looking for advice as to what moral rules are correct , unrelated to a particular decision which he is called upon to make or to a particular situation in which he is involved then it will be impartiality of the first and last types which are particularly relevant : that is , the formal requirement that legislation is to be universalised , and the material requirement that the decisions made are based on a consideration of all relevant factors . |
| 6 | Thus , if we restrict our attention for the moment to pupils for whom a statement is made , the proportion ranges across LEAs from less than 1 per cent of the school population to nearly 3 per cent . |
| 7 | If we restrict our attention to broad employment trends — the growth of employment in the service industries , the increase in white-collar occupations and the rise of professional workers — then Britain , too , has a majority of its labour force in service employment . |
| 8 | If we restrict our attention solely to the twentieth century , it is notable that the two most important and traumatic socialist revolutions , that in Russia in 1917 and that in Germany during the Nazi era , whilst being the creation of particular political leaders who soon imposed total state power , nevertheless drew what popular support they had from political myths that are obvious paranoid projections . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Even if we restrict our attention to those trajectories in our strange invariant set , we can see that almost all pairs of trajectories started at points close together on the top face of the box B will not remain close together as we follow them around . |
| 10 | The Caribbean — even if we restrict our focus of interest to the formerly British parts — is not linguistically homogeneous . |
| 11 | If we keep our nerve long enough it may give the police time to find out where they are being held . ’ |
| 12 | How can people have faith in us if we hold our job to redress the grievances of those who set us here as unimportant ? |
| 13 | ‘ I think it would be safer if we continued our conversation in the trench . |
| 14 | If we got our tea early we could be at the park tonight . |
| 15 | If we lose our grip on this , if it gets away from us , we 'll be very unhappy , very embarrassed , and very much in debt to all sorts of people we prefer to control rather than be controlled by . |
| 16 | Thus if we widen our notion of local politics from electoral behaviour , we find increased differentiation in local political activity within as well as between the major political parties . |
| 17 | Well if we specified our model correctly , right , then these residuals should be just one noise , they should just be , appear with random fluctuations with mean zero . |
| 18 | Indeed , it would bode ill for our political system if we mistrusted our state organisations , and if the courts approached the results of police investigations with the assumption that nothing can be taken at face value . |
| 19 | If we cultivate our intellect and not our bodies , we are out of balance and ill health will result . |
| 20 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 21 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 22 | If we claim our interest is to focus on the writing produced only by a sophisticated elite , and that we determine the best literature is that which , in terms of generic structure , subject , and eloquent rhetoric , concerns itself with the preoccupations of males who have a high social and political standing , then the traditional canon will serve the majority of our needs . |
| 23 | Many of us find that even if we bin our junk mail , it continues to arrive . |
| 24 | ‘ If we maintain our progress it will be the club 's most memorable season for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ If we maintain our market share , the container business is going to be a strong cash and profit generator . ’ |
| 26 | I personally believe Labour could get the devalued exchange rate we wanted within the ERM if we put our foot down . |
| 27 | Factory farming will become a thing of the past if we put our money where our mouths are and support ‘ kinder ’ food with our purses , argues Audrey Eyton |
| 28 | If we confine our calculation simply to strength as such , we get a different figure for the theoretical strength of each material . |
| 29 | By the end of 1986 building society shares and deposits were almost as large as the total sterling deposits of the retail banks and if we confine our attention to deposits of the personal sector alone , then personal sector building society deposits outnumber personal sector ‘ bank ’ deposits by almost 2 : 1 , and have been increasing much more rapidly . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if we confine our view of drama to that of performance art we may so love the mask we overlook the face . |