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

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1 If we had started on week one , where if we 'd had complete programme information up to week thirteen when , that 'd be more complete would n't it ?
2 We build at getting better things , where if we do n't actually watch it , we build at getting worse at things .
3 ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’
4 Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer .
5 I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were .
6 If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 .
7 We can thus put our study on a firmer basis of observation and evidence than if we took a broader domain .
8 First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional .
9 I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs .
10 That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient .
11 But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it .
12 We are more seriously cheating children if we fail to teach them how to use language than if we fail to teach them to enjoy and participate in the arts .
13 If I take it to the police the matter will be dealt with much sooner than if we leave it where it is and wait for them to call here .
14 Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ .
15 Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four
16 It never has moved from there because our two chairs and it 's normally only two of us watching it , cos if we 've got visitors we never have it on , you know , er they just face that way and it 's convenient and that 's where we put it .
17 So we have to assess the current state and if we did n't know then in our particular example , cos if we had n't made the room numbers had been done .
18 Cos if we put sort of ten thousand away the interest would be paying for the fees all the time would n't it ?
19 Cos if we get there see car .
20 let them , let , do you think , let them , let , cos if we leave it to International Secretaire they may still not do it .
21 Cos if we did n't have somebody making shoes we 'd all be walking round bare foot .
22 Cos if we say it
23 Cos if we have seen the , the same survival curves according to the er pathology so it 'll have been er more that G three is worse than G two but er there is a difference in your curves between the grading quality and the vascularity .
24 Cos if we have they 'll be in here .
25 Cos if we have n't then all of our assumptions into why we 're doing things like auto-offs and it improves the outgoing costs and then we 've got better reta better information and better screens and all that sort of stuff , I mean it blows every single assumption we 've made in a way .
26 Erm cos if we differentiate it gives us the gradient at any point .
27 The screws made up promises , like if we took the barricade down they 'd leave us alone , they would n't punish us .
28 Yes sure , the card itself er is authorisation that is signed by er an officer of at least the rank of Assistant Chief Constable and er it 's a firearms authorisation that enables us or as an individual , to be issued with a firearm that is named on this card , er for that particular type of weapon er if if we go to a firearms operation .
29 You 'll have a chance to come back on whether we have got the wrong impression on that , I mean I recall Mr Heselton 's quite clearly , but let me pursue that at a stage further if if we take that as our impression of what you have said collectively , and you are asked to make provision for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , again collectively in the Greater York area , and I 'm addressing this question to the districts , what provision would you make in your districts of your district figure in the Greater York area ?
30 Yes , but if if we take the dog with us go up the heath and then I go to the hairdressers erm you do n't need a haircut anyway do you ?
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