Example sentences of "if we [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'd prefer if we could decide today . |
| 32 | It would be healthy for public services and for dole queues if we could move away from national wage bargaining in a variety of areas . |
| 33 | I wonder if we could move now move over to the first which is on er the first main resolution of which amendment to the other resolution . |
| 34 | If we could invest more in this sort of group then more families who 'd like to return to work would be able to afford to do so . |
| 35 | Well when she come in I asked her if we could tape so she says yeah course you can . |
| 36 | We have to find a way of working together , and it would be a lot less wearing , do n't you think , if we could do so amicably ? ’ |
| 37 | We 're all aware that for th for their number patients with superficial bladder cancer provide an enormous amount of our workload , and for reasons partly of husbanding our precious resources and also because lots of these patients come up with negative checks reducing the amount of irritation and upset to them it would be useful if we could do less than we do . |
| 38 | Right if we could start again then . |
| 39 | And he wanted to do this because he thought that if it were possible , if we could start just from our own sense experiences , then a great simplification would have been achieved . |
| 40 | I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’ |
| 41 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 42 | If we could state positively , and with hope of agreement , what the point of education is , then we could go on to debate how it should be provided , how much public money should be spent on provision , and how much variety should be permitted , within the general legal framework . |
| 43 | erm We feel we can do well , I 'd be ecstatic if we could come away with a world championship point , I think we possibly can if we 're a bit lucky . |
| 44 | Notwithstanding the good news , many hundreds of the workers at Yarrow Shipbuilders have already gone down the road and it would be helpful if we could proceed quickly . |
| 45 | ‘ It would be ideal if we could find more than one corgi as we have two performances a day . ’ |
| 46 | If we could calculate accurately the consequential change in the electron 's momentum then we could allow for the effects of the collision and our knowledge would still be capable of being made exact . |
| 47 | I wonder if we could get away with telling my mum that we 'll go away for Christmas and New Year . |
| 48 | ‘ But I 'd really like it if we could get together some time , ’ she bumbles , ‘ and talk about … mmm … |
| 49 | And then he , he got on the road and he , we usually took , he had to run it er not more than twenty five miles and hour , and er you had to run it , we , we stopped at Preston if we could get there . |
| 50 | under our hands , if we could get there , |
| 51 | Erm I think if we could get there , obviously our our aim er would be to provide er as clearer level of guidance in the policy possible to do . |
| 52 | If we could know both where a particle was and also what it was doing , it would then have to be in a state which was simultaneously an eigenstate of the position operator x and also an eigenstate of the momentum operator p . |
| 53 | I 'm sure Councillor and erm , and certainly there does seem to be more emphasis on helping people with difficult educational disabilities , and those with learning difficulties , but if we could encourage even more , excellent , and I think it 's very important that er , bank agencies er emphasise the fact that it 's training , plus their main aim being er also a qualification , which does help them get , erm jobs . |
| 54 | ‘ If we should score early , as the Italians did on Wednesday , that could make the Portuguese wonder about their own capabilities . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ If we should score early , as the Italians did on Wednesday , that could make the Portuguese wonder about their own capabilities ’ Craig Brown |
| 56 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 57 | At this point Boswell records having experienced a qualm regarding Johnson 's continuance of the journey , because the previous night Johnson had said , ‘ If we must ride much , we shall not go , and there 's an end o n't . ’ |