Example sentences of "but if we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was gon na suggest is that , we actually put something in the bulletin , not in the sense of , well , you know please report your illnesses kind of thing , but if we just make people aware of actually this sort of environmental control thing would be a good idea . |
| 2 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've never closed a store , but if we ever did close that one , we would be happy to restore the land for industrial use . ’ |
| 4 | But if we ever leave the room at all , always pull the chair back . |
| 5 | but if we actually said blow by blow what you 're supposed |
| 6 | But if we then turn to the ego — and , still more , the superego — and try to understand the sequence of development there we may find ourselves in the predicament of a person who tried to investigate the musical education of a child who had started learning the piano with grade 2 , then gone on to grade 3 , and finally ended with grade 1 ! |
| 7 | For example , ( 10 ) certainly seems to mean ( 11 ) ; but if we then build the " uncertainty " interpretation in ( 11 ) into the meaning of possible , ( 12 ) should be an outright contradiction . |
| 8 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
| 9 | But if we only know the bell according to those systems we call logic or science , then we can only talk about bells . |