Example sentences of "for [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal element in capital is party support for public approval , and presidential electoral success will count for little if the seats in Congress are not there . |
| 2 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 3 | In the recent research selectivity exercise , major contributions to computer methods and the creation of publicly available datasets which emanated from within history departments across the country , counted for little if anything . |
| 4 | Well , life on a Venture will be ‘ life in its fullness ’ for most if not all of those attending . |
| 5 | Usually it is the husband who is committed to his career and to increasing his earning capacity , and who is dependent upon his wife for most if not all of the child care and domestic responsibilities , organization , routine , style and comfort . |
| 6 | Hirschman , too , stressed that Latin American countries who by and large had disregarded the wisdom of the liberals had nevertheless managed to improve material standards for most if not all their people ( Hirschman , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Caroline would give me hell for evermore if she thought I 'd ill-treated her best friend . |
| 8 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 9 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 10 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 11 | The other alternative is to claim that the very constitution of individuals as intentional subjects serves to legitimate capitalist modes of production , for only if individuals perceive themselves as free agents will these alienating arrangements seem tolerable . |
| 12 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 13 | Overseas markets too are affected , for only if they can reach ports at reasonable cost and efficiency can goods be readily exported . |
| 14 | We were on our way to the river to photograph the landscape which , Lady Rutherford told us indignantly , would be ruined for ever if Mr Knightley allowed Mr Dinsdale and his industrialist friends to dig a quarry , part of which would be on common land . |
| 15 | A company is often in danger of losing the expertise for ever if the expert retires , dies or changes employment . |
| 16 | Lunch-times can go on for ever if you have no friends and no one invites you to join in with what they are doing . |
| 17 | An anguished groan escaped her , the certain knowledge hers that both she and Cara could say goodbye to that interview for ever if she breathed a word of the truth to him . |
| 18 | On Wednesdays in July and August , steam to Levisham for 10.48 and a 3 mile walk with a pub stop , or Newtondale for 14.43 ( 15.14 green days ) and a different three miles — although your ticket is valid for both if you wish ! |
| 19 | For now if you , as a supplier , observe a rise in the price of the good on your island of 10 per cent you can not be certain whether all other markets are experiencing the same rise on average . |
| 20 | I think what you want to do now , write down a list of what you want him to do and let Steve do that for tomorrow if you can and then let's see if we can make him stick to that list cos otherwise he 'll be here in |
| 21 | Happy Birthday for tomorrow if I do n't see you . |
| 22 | This could apply to almost all of the play 's characters — for even if they can not live up to their ideals , at least they have some . |
| 23 | It should be remembered that the position is different in a shop , whether self-service or otherwise , where ownership does not pass to the alleged thief the buyer , until the goods have been paid for even if the buyer obtains possession before payment . |
| 24 | For then if the price is set at P the quantity traded will equal the quantity that buyers and sellers at the end of period t — 1 thought optimal at that price . |
| 25 | specialist or something or , or training to do , and I says well what , what do you pay his car insurance for then if his working ? , oh well he does n't earn enough |
| 26 | And , you , you make for that and on i on the sand there 'd be number seven you see , so you could got to dive for there if you were lost . |
| 27 | For example , needs to account for why if the sentence P and Q is true , then so is the sentence Q and in order to do that it assigns a certain structure , for example as on the handout in my assigned structure and brackets P Q. Erm anyway erm it just has and has a separate particle operating on two distinct sentences that are not ordered syntax needs to account for the well-formedness of the structure , sorry P and Q. The ill-formedness of P Q and the similar grouping of and with or that is in English between sentences and where you can find one and find another but not with , not you do n't say John loves Mary not Peter loves Jill . |