Example sentences of "[that] if we [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem that if we succeed in adapting our values to such disturbances instead of losing them altogether , it is because we still retain some vestige of a Christian and liberal moral tradition a memory of ‘ Do unto others … ’ at the roots of social habit , which saves us from the collapse into competing egoisms into which deepening conflicts are perpetually driving us . |
| 2 | We are so constituted , that if we insist on being as sure as is conceivable , in every step of our course , we must be content to creep along the ground , and can never soar . |
| 3 | The curvature is so intense that if we insist in using coordinates appropriate to distant flat space — time , then we find that space and time inside the horizon interchange the properties normally associated with them . |
| 4 | Figure 3.1 shows that if we go to bed at the ‘ normal ’ time we sleep about eight hours , a result that most of us would accept as part of our daily experience . |
| 5 | In fact , we know that if we get into a confined space with the intention of defying gravity we are running a risk and have decided to tolerate it . |
| 6 | Well here we 've got an onshore wind , that 's perfect , because we know that if we get into trouble just get blown back ashore . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , they argue that if we persist with the established electoral system then we will continue with the problems of government which they identify . |
| 8 | One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities . |
| 9 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 10 | I know that if we speak of the ‘ rhythm guitarist ’ as such , the image of a second-rate underdog player springs instantly into view , playing a tiresome , subordinate role to a far more experienced ( and inexcusably vain ) lead player . |
| 11 | The first thing to remember is that if we speak in terms of ‘ I ’ and ‘ me ’ , rather than ‘ you ’ , we run less danger of erecting barriers on the other side . |
| 12 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 13 | The mundane world view suggests that the tossing of coins or yarrow stalks , or selection of cards from a pack , is random and meaningless — but metaphysics assures us that if we ask for guidance , we will receive it . |
| 14 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 15 | The second point is crucial for the reason that if we include in the set items that can not undergo the variation in question , or items that undergo different patterns of linguistic variation , the quantitative results will be false . |
| 16 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 17 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 18 | Erm as I digest Mr 's comments and the various implications erm of the things that he said , it 's more and more confirming for me that perhaps we may well be right in the step by step measured approach because quite clearly erm I suspect that if we run at this stage a preferred location , erm I suspect that the the opposition to that and there would be opposition to it , may well have may well prejudice the principle er of the new settlement . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe that if we deal with both of these subjects in one such conference we risk overloading the boat . ’ |
| 20 | So that if we deal with it er er in a way that we can find a professionally acceptable |
| 21 | It has been suggested ( White , 1978 , p. 101 ) that if we look at the delivery of key speeches in the Supreme Soviet , for example , there was no evidence that prominent groups were gaining proportionately more influence vis-a-vis the party , which may demonstrate that there is no good reason to assume that industrialized societies necessarily develop similar political characteristics . |
| 22 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 23 | In which case , since Copenhagen is n't the biggest capital in Europe , the chances are that if we look in the right places we 'll find them sooner or later ! ’ |