Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] if [art] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event .
2 Do n't stick to this rigidly if the discussion takes a different course to the one you expected .
3 The method is , however , applicable only if the investigator has extremely clear goals in mind , already well worked out in advance , and a major disadvantage is the very limited nature of the data which it is capable of yielding .
4 It is just not good enough if the House does nothing .
5 This is n form of working memory , as the cue is meaningful only if the animal remembers where it has just come from .
6 The explanation is that the flavour of the decision seems right even if the substance belies the flavour .
7 Under the Celuform scheme , the Company guarantees that faulty workmanship and materials is put right even if the installer has ceased trading .
8 4 ) What back-up in terms of advice and maintenance is available e.g. if the microcomputer breaks down , can it be attended to locally or will there be a delay ?
9 The third chest has a slightly decayed , but permanent , Magic Lock on it , such that an attempt at mechanical lock-picking is only 50% likely to be successful even if the lock-picker makes his Dex test to pick the lock .
10 Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme .
11 We will convert Invalid Care Allowance into a Carer 's Benefit , increasing its value by an immediate 15% , indexing its future level to earnings and altering the entitlement rules to enable carers to combine caring with part-time or even full-time jobs and to ensure that people will still be eligible even if the caring starts after the carer reaches pensionable age .
12 Trust dispositions are valid only if the trustee has received a benefit under the testator 's will .
13 This is true even if the question has been prescribed by someone else ( perhaps in an examination ) ; in such cases , you reformulate the question in your first paragraph to demonstrate that you have understood it and can develop arguments from it .
14 Since the fund is kept strictly separate from the firm 's own assets , employees ' pensions should remain secure even if the firm ceases trading .
15 This is probably true of all human beings irrespective of culture and simply means that some degree of maturation of the ego must occur at around the age of seven even if the culture does not choose that moment for the installation of the superego .
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