Example sentences of "and if we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then we will take the boy 's speech and writing which is so good and subject it to careful analysis and if we teach the other boys whose writing and speech is not so good how to subject what they say and write to this kind of analysis they will realise how badly they speak and write and will promptly set about trying to improve the way they speak and write … . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And if we raise its value , then Robert Menzies will raise our rent . ’ |
| 3 | But if we lower our ‘ poverty line ’ , we will at the same time reduce the number of poor people , and if we raise it , we will increase the number . |
| 4 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 5 | ‘ Children have a natural sense of justice and if we felt they were unjust we would rebel , ’ he explains . |
| 6 | If the latter , and if we took Sonnet 20 as a key declaration of intent , then the paucity of the We might indeed imply that the two halves of this relationship are irredeemably twain . |
| 7 | And if we took the attendance report first , in relation to that then we can look at the material presented in the way to which you 're accustomed . |
| 8 | So we are the only Committee who are saving the , that 's taking our budget globally as , I think , I think it 's four point eight percent , if you want to be pedantic about it , but we are planning and that 's the only ones , if you take that mode of view , and if we took , if we took training out |
| 9 | We were , I think , the first ones in Britain to do it and it was all based on trust and if we made mistakes , we made mistakes ! |
| 10 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 11 | And if we project this other point of view with enough … skill , we may indeed build our figures . ’ |
| 12 | I know we are then and if we book . |
| 13 | If we are required to make a decision which has consequences for other people , and if we wish to treat them properly , then it is vital that we take into account their own views on the matter . |
| 14 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 15 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |
| 16 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 17 | This capital is running out , and if we export industrial agriculture to the Third World it will run out faster . |
| 18 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 19 | FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We are concerned about the image of the game and if we receive a complaint it will be thoroughly investigated to see if it should be brought before our disciplinary committee . ’ |
| 20 | Those were the choices , and if we dissect the Labour budget I think you 'll see that we were quite proper in deciding that for all its faults , and I mean this is not a budget that any of us in that chamber , you see , certainly no Liberal Democrat , wanted to even put forward at all . |
| 21 | When our appearance is being changed — in the hairdresser 's , beauty salon or fitting room — there is great vulnerability , and if we ask for assistance we are giving others considerable power to judge us , alter us and witness us stripped of normal dignity . |
| 22 | And if we ask St Jude , who is the patron saint of lost causes , to lend his assistance I think between them they should be able to return the lost medal , do n't you ? " |
| 23 | And if we ask them to tell stories or act out little plays , Ruth 's are always rather gruesome . |
| 24 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 25 | And if we passed the exam then we became er er p probationer nurses then . |
| 26 | Or it may arise because we are pursuing a particular path and if we went back upstream we could avoid the problem instead of trying to solve it . |
| 27 | They must be produced by some other spirit , and if we attend to their ‘ constant regularity , order , … magnificence , beauty , and perfection ’ , we see that they must be produced by an ‘ eternal , infinitely wise , good , and perfect ’ spirit , which is God . |
| 28 | It is almost always based on the four zero foods , and if we attempt to resist it , our friends insist that ‘ a little wo n't hurt ’ . |
| 29 | But if we do not take their most far-reaching claims too seriously , and if we attempt to combine their insights with those stemming from more conventional social science , we can develop a form of sociology which once more has the extensive scope of the early pioneering studies . |
| 30 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |