Example sentences of "[adv] if it [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To its lenders and investors , the firm has a value only if it is earning more than its cost of capital . |
| 2 | Only if it is made strange or different do we see it for what it really is . |
| 3 | The legislature 's vote was an embarrassment for Mr Kravchuk , but it has left Ukraine with a paralysed government at a time when the country must react swiftly if it is to survive increased prices for Russian fuel . |
| 4 | Do n't join in if it is getting hurtful . |
| 5 | But she 's not if it 's coming natural . |
| 6 | Processes such as DVI , for example , will need to improve radically if it is to provide acceptable video at HDTV standards . |
| 7 | At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status . |
| 8 | If we were correct in our hypothesis of Jesus 's marriage and children , or even if it were believed true at the time , it would do much to explain the agreed rapport between Constantine and the Roman Church . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't hang around in here if it 's coming that soon ! ’ said Masklin , all thoughts of his duty to the nomes of the world temporarily forgotten . |
| 10 | Finally partnership activity will have to be funded adequately if it is to achieve much worthwhile . |
| 11 | Applied linguistics in this sense must be practised by teachers too if it is to have any effective operational relevance at all . |