Example sentences of "if we have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their accuracy still depends upon the correctness of our assumptions about causal order and the operation of other variables ; if we had either specified the causal order incorrectly , or failed to control for other important variables , the coefficients would be meaningless . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’ |
| 4 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 5 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |
| 6 | Perhaps , if we had only tried to wield the Spear , we would have been saved ; but none had the heart or the courage . |
| 7 | Over such a period , as has already been apparent with Polaris , if we had only had three , we should not have been able to maintain that programme . |
| 8 | But 90 per cent of them could be prevented actually if we had better working and environmental conditions or were n't so stressed and needed to smoke and drink to kill the pain of daily life . |
| 9 | If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised . |
| 10 | ‘ If we had really wanted to take over control of local government we could have done it years ago , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They have been fed non-sexist , multi-cultural books and toys along with their strained apricots ; they have been treated by female GPs , they have sat and watched Kaffe Fassett knitting and sewing on TV , but their ideas of male and female roles are as sexist as if we had never made the effort . |
| 12 | So I said : ‘ It would have been better if we had never met . ’ |
| 13 | as if we had never met before and this was some silly party game . |
| 14 | We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off . |
| 15 | Now , if we had actually received a one point five percent increase in the business rates , we could have cut the council tax |
| 16 | If we had actually wanted to use them we would have had to do some tidying as the area of the bromide was somewhat less than A4 . |
| 17 | ‘ If we had all followed the path that Czechoslovakia began , avoiding distortions and extremes , I think we would be different , the world would be different , and it would n't be so hard to implement these changes now , ’ Mr Gorbachev said . |
| 18 | There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo . |
| 19 | It would be very long-winded if we had always to answer a question like Do you like mangoes ? with a sentence like Yes I like mangoes or Yes I think I like mangoes . |
| 20 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 21 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 22 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 23 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 24 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 25 | It could have come from what happened with us , even if we 'd never seen each other again ! " |
| 26 | Yeah but if we 'd then gone in to re-present |
| 27 | If we 'd only stuck to Perrier … |
| 28 | They should n't have found a single gun that day — we 'd have buried the lot if we 'd only known in time . ’ |
| 29 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 30 | But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married |