Example sentences of "if we could [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Life might be more exciting , if we could create paper ’ , says finance director Dale , ‘ but look at our results . |
| 2 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 3 | The proceedings here are judicial , not autocratic , which they would be if we could make laws instead of administering them . ’ |
| 4 | if we could hold music in the mind |
| 5 | I have been asked to enquire if we could hold meetings of our national Council at your hotel on a regular basis . |
| 6 | If we could place decisions at nodes 2 and 3 as well as at node 4 there would be 5 paths through the graph instead of 12 . |
| 7 | See if we could combine forces . ’ |
| 8 | So if we could show PC j false this would have the double effect of undermining the Gettier counter-examples and ( part at least of ) the first sceptical argument . |
| 9 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 10 | ‘ Would n't it be grand if we could show Mr. Olinton that Brownies are helpful and not nuisances at all ? |
| 11 | On Friday w would it be a good idea Cos I do n't know what time the generator 's but I mean it would be really best if we could set things up . |
| 12 | Would n't life be simpler if we could read horses ' minds ? |
| 13 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 14 | And so even if we could produce Mercedes Benz over here alright , we probably would n't alright , unless all Mercedes Benz production were specialized over here , production has become a lot more specialized in manufacturing , where you just have large plants producing erm , the entire world production of that particular erm , product . |
| 15 | ‘ If we could revive Monaghan Day for Daddy it could help to start him back to himself . |
| 16 | If we could get Laura saying nasty words to me on this tape ! |
| 17 | ‘ Talking about steamrollers , ’ Otley said , ‘ it would be handy if we could get hold of one . ’ |
| 18 | If we could get Tony 's ma on the list , we are only a step away from having inside info and influence . |
| 19 | This means that other people have to wait longer than necessary to see a doctor ; if we could charge non-attenders , as dentists do , it would help . |
| 20 | ‘ But if we could swap jobs for one day my first task would be to address the Free World wearing the Everton strip , then run a Blues flag up the mast at the White House . ’ |
| 21 | Barth therefore concluded that it was correct to argue that if we could define God then God must exist . |