Example sentences of "if we can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 2 | If we can not beat the system , how can we get it to work for us ? |
| 3 | Even if we can not get at ‘ the truth itself ’ and ‘ be admitted into the very inner shrines of nature ’ , we can at least ‘ glimpse … some slight image of it ’ , and ‘ live among certain of the outer altars ’ . |
| 4 | If we can not understand how body ‘ should imprint any idea in the mind ’ , our having such ideas ‘ can be no reason why we should suppose matter or corporeal substances , since that is acknowledged to remain equally inexplicable with , or without this supposition ’ . |
| 5 | If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 7 | If we can not really be sure about the way this Christianization of the urban population was brought about , we can , however , discern some of the anxieties that accompanied it . |
| 8 | Better still , we enjoy solving mysteries : and if we can not solve them then , when the auspices are right , they can acquire the aura of magic . |
| 9 | ‘ If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? ’ |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock has been If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? consistently less popular than his party . |
| 11 | However , if we can not agree , then you are entitled to refer the dispute for decision by an Arbitrator appointed by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators , provided your claim is not more than £1,500 per person or £7,500 per Booking Form and does not involve physical injury or illness . |
| 12 | For the sake of architecture , which we all believe in , it is vital that if we can not accept the decision to proceed with enthusiasm , we at least accept the decision with democratic grace . |
| 13 | If we can not take the initiative in refusing to dock tails , and are unable to so much as raise an eyebrow at what we suspect are dog fighting injuries , then why should we care how many dogs are killed weekly by the RSPCA ? |
| 14 | If we can not help in the analysis of concrete problems , we should keep our mouths firmly shut . |
| 15 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 16 | ‘ Ultimately , if we can not improve our profitability , the future looks bleak , ’ said the company 's managing director Ian Dean . |
| 17 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 18 | If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country . |
| 19 | If we can not face the idea of feeding animal products to our pets then we should switch from keeping cats to keeping canaries . |
| 20 | Even if we can not understand the words of a foreign language , at least our minds are all human such that communication of meaning — human meaning — can take place . |
| 21 | Most of us have a tendency to underrate our own skills and experience , especially if we can not put a definite name to them . |
| 22 | How can we have a ministry that is really effective inside the church if we can not live it outside the church ? |
| 23 | If we can not ask directly , if we can not risk a ‘ No ’ , do we have to scream for what we want ? |
| 24 | If we can not ask directly , if we can not risk a ‘ No ’ , do we have to scream for what we want ? |
| 25 | If we can not answer , ‘ Yes this is our motive , ’ then all the other good pragmatic reasons for church planting are irrelevant . |
| 26 | This is a REALLY IMPORTANT question , because if we can not believe the Bible then we can just believe what we like ( as most people who do n't have much of a faith do ) and reject what we do n't like . |
| 27 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 28 | Life is truly meaningless if we can not be moved by the stories of cruelty from Bosnia , of famine in Somalia and by a simple tale like that told by Father McCullagh . |
| 29 | What value is our own home if we can not feel for those who are homeless ? |
| 30 | What worth is our own job if we can not feel for those who are unemployed ? |