Example sentences of "if we [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Our pulse rate tells us how slowly if we count the beats .
2 If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) .
3 Note 1.11.5 Even if we count repeated roots according to their multiplicities ( and it is usual to ) the theorem still holds .
4 To each of these may be added another if we count the faunal extinctions brought about by man in the last million years or so .
5 More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue .
6 If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’
7 The kitchen was filled with glorious smells of baking and Angus , with languid largesse , said he would n't notice if we ate a slice or two of his raisin bread , or of his apple and walnut .
8 I can leave it on the stove or take if off , and either way it wo n't be the same as it would be if we ate it now . ’
9 ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . )
10 I 'm sure Suzanne would n't mind if we ate out tomorrow , and it 's .
11 If we pass this policy we can save at least £5bn to help to put this country on its feet again and to make decent lives for ordinary people possible , ’ he said .
12 ‘ What does it-mean if we pass this motion ? ’
13 That shows the standard of the management that we are being asked to endorse if we pass the Bill .
14 I think colleagues on this side will seek to press the minister even further on the latest developments in France and indeed what influence we can have to make sure that if we pass these orders today , they do become the basis of the European elections .
15 I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight .
16 I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight .
17 But if we pass well no one will be able to stop us .
18 that if we pass on some of your comments at the end of the section , maybe they 'll be able to arrange , maybe in two or three months time a visit that most of us can make , particularly those of you who missed it , because it is an important experience , but obviously quite difficult to arrange , because it involves real tenants and real people but we can pass that back , and I 'm sure the officers will consider it .
19 We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets .
20 As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms .
21 ‘ I was wondering , ’ he glanced at the Archdeacon , ‘ if , in the light of the thrust , as it were , of the police 's questioning , whether it might not be a prudent move if we filled in one or two blank spots in our intelligence about Hereward and , of course , Amy . ’
22 We 're not desperate for petrol but it would be nice if we filled up with it .
23 If we insisted on electricity generators buying expensive coal , that would be bad news for domestic electricity customers and it would cause job losses in the rest of British industry .
24 If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) .
25 If we cancel your holiday
26 IF WE CANCEL YOUR HOLIDAY
27 If we cancel your holiday arrangements
28 If we cancel one factor from both sides , we can write unc and then , as before , we can prove that
29 If we cancel it now it will create a lot of bad feeling and leave us with egg on our faces . ’
30 If we cancel this event because of a shadowy terrorist threat it will be an admission that these people can control our lives .
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