Example sentences of "if we [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we go from left to right along a row of p-block elements , the effect of increasing mass is outweighed by the increasing bond strength , and frequencies increase ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 2 | If we go from that to the earnings , there 's another erm , er , slide to take us through that . |
| 3 | For example , if we go from the 1792 clock 's slow ( perhaps spurious ) ‘ Quail ’ 'minuet' ( a ‘ traditional ’ title , no manuscript source is available ) to the 1793 clock 's fast Minuetto allegretto from Haydn 's ‘ Clock ’ symphony , the ranges on the Niemecz mechanical organs , flywheel going at 60 , go from dotted minim = 36 to 72 . |
| 4 | If we go from the battery to the bulb , from the bulb to the meter |
| 5 | No notice , right with these are exactly the same as those now alright so what we 're going to do is we 're going to subtract right , if we subtract from a , subtract b from a all those terms that run off into infinity , we 're gon na drop out , okay . |
| 6 | If we proceed from prudential to moral imperatives , will the conditions of the choice be fundamentally changed ? |
| 7 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 8 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 9 | How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’ |
| 10 | To put it another way , if we came from down there ( Front ) and it is morning , the sun would be up there ( His left ) , and if it is actually over there ( His right ) and it 's still morning , we must have come up there ( Behind him ) , and if that is southerly ( His left ) and the sun is really over there ( Front ) , then it 's the afternoon . |
| 11 | I often felt as if we came from different planets ! ’ |
| 12 | The picture does not really change if we turn from the Bible to those seals and bronzes from the Persian period with which the Archaeological Museums of Jerusalem have made us familiar . |
| 13 | I wish that pressure in the House would prove enough , but I am realist enough to know that change — real change — will only come now if we push from every side . ’ |
| 14 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 15 | The idea that knowledge could be firmly established and disputes resolved if we began from clear beginnings always remained with Hobbes . |
| 16 | ( ‘ Platonic myth ’ might be more accurate , if we detach from poetry does ‘ narrate ’ in a Joycean sense . ) |
| 17 | If we start from the bottom up , I think there has been a big advance in women as professionals , as producers , directors , starting to come into sound , quite a lot of editors , slightly more difficult with cameras . |
| 18 | If we start from the raw data values X 1 we can either proceed up the ladder of powers by squaring or cubing each number or down the ladder by taking square roots or reciprocals . |
| 19 | But if we start from the conception of the rational man who disciplines his spontaneity by an awareness independent of viewpoint , then it is for the egoist to explain why he claims priority for responses from his own viewpoint . |
| 20 | It does this because it shows how if we start from our own case alone , and concentrate entirely upon a conception of mental states which is independent of behaviour , we can not move from our conception of ourselves as subjects of experience to a conception of other subjects . |
| 21 | What I 'm gon na ask you to do , if you could introduce each of yourselves and say which pension fund you er come from er and if we start from your left , my right . |
| 22 | If we escape from the notion of sediment raining down every . |
| 23 | But if we retreat from the notion of perfect reliability and require only that the method be generally reliable , we invite sceptical arguments of our second type . |
| 24 | This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made . |
| 25 | Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere . |
| 26 | ‘ Fortunately Britain can win if we learn from past mistakes , and I would now like to conclude by outlining certain strategic proposals for your consideration , which would put Britain firmly on the upward path to meet the Prime Minister 's long-term objectives . ’ |
| 27 | If we move from the material world of technology and physical experience to the metaphysical world of moral ideas and the imagination we find that there is enormous discrepancy about what may be considered abnormal in different circumstances , but attitudes to the abnormal are always ambivalent . |
| 28 | If we move from the marginal to the average , a similar picture still emerges . |
| 29 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 30 | But if we begin from situations in which the community does not find it necessary to impose standards , we find , in the very simplest cases , full confidence and agreement in evaluating , untroubled by worries over differences of taste . |