Example sentences of "if we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we insisted on electricity generators buying expensive coal , that would be bad news for domestic electricity customers and it would cause job losses in the rest of British industry . |
| 2 | But even if we subscribe to the view that all genuine existential propositions are by nature " general " propositions , Frege 's theory is not entirely satisfactory . |
| 3 | If we subscribe to a truth-conditional semantics , we shall therefore be forced to find a place for such meanings in pragmatic theory . |
| 4 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 5 | Specifically , what interpretations of data would be available to us if we relied on ‘ mainstream ’ norms , and how would these differ from internally-based interpretations ? |
| 6 | But we could not draw these conclusions if we relied on external norms , on general historical information as codified in historical textbooks , or on our own ‘ intuition ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 8 | ‘ If we suffer in life , it is only to earn our way into His Celestial Mansion when we die . ’ |
| 9 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 10 | ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top . |
| 11 | ‘ We are dead if we stay with VSEL , the whole town will go down the plughole . ’ |
| 12 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’ |
| 14 | Cos we 've gone through a whole sort of full circle about taking a stance that 's very aggressive in terms of saying if we i i if we tender for something we 're gon na hit the client with V Os and this that and the other . |
| 15 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 16 | Then if we go on a step further and consider that Paul says the wife 's body does not belong to her alone , that means the husband must have some authority to move the limbs around in various patterns . |
| 17 | If we go on holiday we are meticulous in our arrangements — checking our passport , planning our wardrobe , organising injections , travellers cheques and currency . |
| 18 | And , say Armitages Pet Products , we 're also buying them presents if we go on holiday without them . |
| 19 | But probably the key one here is the belief that somehow if we go on holiday , we 're gon na come back totally refreshed . |
| 20 | So , if that is the case how can we possibly lose our identity because we have n't , we 're not , there 's no suggestion if we go on an inward journey , the inward journey must be within our selves , within our individuality , not , not jumping out into some form of spacial context . |
| 21 | Whereas if we go on the back of something else or somebody else as as you were saying on on the back of a wedding er brochure or something like that , in other words , go down down a specialized avenue rather than a general one , you might achieve something better . |
| 22 | I 'd like an extended playground , because at lunchtime the boys take up the playground and play football and if we go on the playground just to run around , they say ’ Oi get off , we 're playing football . ’ |
| 23 | But on a serious note , if we go along this line of the one thing , to me then , of getting what we need , we have gas , we have electric , the one thing we do need , nobody could survive without , is water , Congress I ask you to support this m this motion . |
| 24 | erm talking about the sorry David the Playhouse being an entertainment centre , perhaps you should utilise the space a little bit more I 'm sure if we go down stairs now into the foyer bar it 's probably empty as it is erm many nights of the week . |
| 25 | The British people will not accept the relegation of the mother of Parliaments to the level of the legislature of the state of Nevada ; but that is what is on offer to us if we go down the path of full political union . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the end of the world if we go into the Second Division . |
| 27 | Thomas said : ‘ If we go into that one cast as the sacrificial lambs , we wo n't mind . |
| 28 | If we go into the New Year in 10th place , we are not going to be able to do it . ’ |
| 29 | If we go into a laboratory we shall find it littered with devices of just this character , capable of affording an unambiguous answer to an experimental enquiry . |
| 30 | You 'll blind us with science if we go into that right now ! |