Example sentences of "if we have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You would not be reading this book now if we had to rely on " refills " for student notebooks .
2 If we had to rely on other teams slipping up I would n't be quite so relaxed Kevin Keegan
3 If we had to rely on other teams slipping up I would n't be quite so relaxed . ’
4 If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing .
5 Yes , she thought , I 'd hate it if we had to leave the party .
6 Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up .
7 Snooker : ‘ If we had to replace our tobacco sponsors , we believe we could do so … ’ — David Harrison , Chief Executive , World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association ( WPBSA ) .
8 And those are the three things get that right plus a compliment slip and a letter heading , because if we have to lift a logo if that if we had to lift that off er you know photocopy wo n't er photocopy wo n't do , so we we take a compliment slip or letter heading .
9 We do not risk , as we would have done if we had handled the Bill in any other way , leaving those matters which come at the end of the Bill — as the Scottish provisions do — not to be debated fully .
10 Pub landlord John Payne , 47 , who joined a dozen regulars for the trip to the Black Sheep Brewery in Masham , North Yorks , said : ‘ We would n't have gone if we had realised .
11 I 'm pleased but it 's not compensation for all of the trauma we have suffered or the money we have lost if we had invested it elsewhere .
12 If we had gone to the West , then what ?
13 If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced .
14 If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures .
15 Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders .
16 If we had followed the M R C protocols er the numbers er would have been much smaller in the lower risk group and erm the erm there was more effort placed in the high risk group than erm there would have been we actually did .
17 We 'd have got away with it if we had noticed that the polystyrene tiles had slipped out of alignment — but having shifted dozens of tanks around we made the fatal error of complacency and did n't check the underlay .
18 In most of the examples discussed in this chapter , the finished product is a smooth curve which resembles what we might have drawn if we had smoothed the raw data by eye ; looking from the smooth back to the rough we could usually see the trend in the raw data .
19 If we had assumed that the expected level of prices was P 1 and had drawn the relationship between the general level of prices and aggregate output on that assumption we would have drawn the short-run aggregate supply curve as an upward-sloping line which cuts the vertical line from y n at P 1 .
20 For example , if we had assumed in the above model that where is a fraction , then the optimum value for γ 2 would be a complex function of and .
21 But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say .
22 But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ?
23 Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ .
24 If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon .
25 We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive .
26 Neglect of opportunities to act on such feelings , Granville Sharp believed , was ‘ as great an offence before God as if we had denied assistance to Christ himself ’ .
27 I signed a two-year contract and would have honoured that , even if we had missed the play-offs .
28 For example , if we had desired to add to P1 , we could , instead , have added C , but then , as soon as became non-basic ( after the first pivot ) , drop and its column .
29 In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous .
30 In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous .
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