Example sentences of "if [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Sharp , in introducing the questions at the end of this session , wondered if eventually the EC would standardise the statute of limitations . |
| 2 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 3 | This is a serious omission , redolent of the old habits of thought that if only the public will trust Whitehall , all will be well . |
| 4 | If only the markets and the media would get over their obsession with the current account numbers then the Government too could forget about them . |
| 5 | If only the Prime Minister were a Thatcherite |
| 6 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 7 | This was already clear by 1926 , and could even have been in 1922 , if only the central authorities had kept a closer watch on the pulse of rural life . |
| 8 | It seemed that the manager remembered it plainly , too , because as they entered the restaurant , he came from behind his desk like a bolted rabbit and , before Frau Nordern had time to speak , assured her that everything would be in order if only , his hands out wide , beseechingly , if only the gnädige Frau would give him a date . |
| 9 | If only the rest had been encouraged to play it big and brassy like this . |
| 10 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 11 | Now it looks as if only the banking directive , adopted by the Council of Ministers in December 1989 , will be operative in time . |
| 12 | That is what stokes their desire to flee ( if only the damned rand were not so low , and the idea of settling in Ealing so bloody depressing ) ; what scares the living daylights out of the lovely green suburbs . |
| 13 | If only the British would pull their socks up things would be different . |
| 14 | Galbraith challenged the conventional wisdom that everything would be all right if only the Gross National Product were big enough . |
| 15 | ‘ If only the Russians do n't come here , we could bear everything else ’ , was a commonly heard sentiment . |
| 16 | They also accept that the brain has certain innate dispositions , if only the disposition to be reinforced by particular stimuli . |
| 17 | If only the politicians seeking our vote on Thursday had achieved a fraction as much . |
| 18 | All 's well , if only the very large and very sticky buds in the tree-tops would burst into leaf . |
| 19 | If only the work were worth it . |
| 20 | But he remained convinced that if only the Elector could hear him he would change his mind : |
| 21 | Ah , how much finer and better our orchestra might be , if only the Archbishop desired it . |
| 22 | If only the nurses were less … were a little more gentle . |
| 23 | If only the great wide world of cinema audiences knew exactly what happened … |
| 24 | The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for . |
| 25 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 26 | There generally is a reason for any custom or tradition if only the peasant were lucid enough to explain it . |
| 27 | If only the bar was n't brought down quite so hard on everyone 's head . |
| 28 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |
| 29 | • for the part of the payment between the exempt amount and £50,000 , first calculate your income tax as if this part were included in your income and then your tax as if it were not ; the relief on this part is half the difference ; • for the part between £50,000 and £75,000 , first calculate your tax as if the part between the exempt amount and £75,000 were included in your income , and then your tax as if only the part between the exempt amount and £50,000 were included ; the relief on this part is 25 per cent of the difference ; |
| 30 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |