Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
2 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |
3 | The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result . |
4 | As the reader will appreciate , a country can fund a continuing current account deficit only if it has limitless reserves of gold and foreign exchange or unlimited foreign borrowing power . |
5 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
6 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
7 | UEFA ARE ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European super league , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite . |
8 | UEFA are ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European Super League , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite . |
9 | The Article 22 proposal for EEC funding of pilot schemes to demonstrate to farmers how they can achieve the objectives of development plans is to be welcomed but only if it includes environmental considerations as suggested by several witnesses to the House of Lords Select Committee . |
10 | But he can bridge it only if he has broad lines of policy clear in his head ; if , knowing his own mind , he drives his authority down through the departments ; and if he is prepared to understand that the fruits of his efforts may appear long after the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton , gourmand and ground-breaker . |
11 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
12 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
13 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
14 | By the third year , the young orang is much more venturesome and will leave its mother for short spells , especially if it meets other youngsters who are willing to play . |
15 | Even a small reduction in the susceptibility of a crop to a pest can be important , especially if it complements other control techniques in an IPM programme . |
16 | She could also write down if she has any problems with any of these goals , or any spectacular successes ( like a new recipe or a new idea for places to shop for food ) . |
17 | And after scoring the derby winner against Everton in March , Rosy said : ‘ I 'd like to stay at Liverpool but not if it means another season on the bench . ’ |
18 | ‘ Not if he has any sense . ’ |
19 | It has to be rehearsed all together , it ca n't be done best if someone arrives two days before the performance . ’ |
20 | Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief . |
21 | I 'm gon na , I 'm gon na get Scott tonight if he makes any comments and this fist is gon na go strop straight where it hurts . |
22 | Contran illuminates a warning light if any transmission exceeds twenty seconds in length , and automatically switches the transmission off if it exceeds thirty seconds . |
23 | Laws of Canute of 1020x1022 state : " It is heathen practice if one worships idols , namely if one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon , fire or flood , wells or stones or any kind of forest trees , or if one practises witchcraft or encompasses death by any means , either by sacrifice or divination , or takes any part in such delusions . " |
24 | We must try and get some really good ones though if he brings that machine in . |
25 | Well if she lasts another year and I 'll last another year , she 'll be older than me wo n't she ? |
26 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
27 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
28 | Even if one ignores any effects on the fetus and neonate , what about the mother ? |
29 | Even if one gets different results , they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims . |
30 | Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other . |