Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] if [art] [noun sg] " 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 | We felt that it could have been better still if the weather had been kinder to us . |
| 3 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 4 | The Entrance Examination produced the usual number of candidates ( about 350 ) , but of these half would be interested only if a bursary or some other sort of aided place could be provided . |
| 5 | If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made . |
| 6 | This liability would be payable even if the venture failed , and all the capital were lost . |
| 7 | The Commission , however , raised the possibility that importers ( e.g. an auctioneer ) could benefit from the temporary importation arrangements : VAT would be payable only if the item were sold , and it would be deductible . |
| 8 | It is probably unnecessary to specify the president , as the relevant institution 's procedures will be similar even if the president is not specified . |
| 9 | General grants would be appropriate only if the grantor felt that all local services were merit goods . |
| 10 | They will go on doing so , but they can be effective only if the fighting which seems to have broken out and the looting that I described cease . |
| 11 | However , funds provided in the third category would be available only if a country 's domestic policies were adjusted to that prescribed by the Community 's Council of Ministers . |
| 12 | A major influence was undoubtedly the personality of the dean himself , but the essential catalysts were the decision by the department of anatomy that it could no longer continue to operate two separate curricula — one for the traditional course and one for the parallel track — and the decision by several of the charitable funders of the new pathway that future grants would be available only if the scheme was adopted throughout the school . |
| 13 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 281 but , in any event , it can , in my opinion , be accurate only if the husband and wife cases are treated as being in a separate category . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus , if the consecutive-spill method of handling synonyms has been used , a search may still be necessary even if no home record is detected when the home position is searched . |
| 18 | This may be necessary even if the industry is situated many miles from the site . |
| 19 | It would be surprising therefore if the SoS announced his decision before the autumn . |
| 20 | Thus the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) will be valid only if the speaker index and the time index are held constant ( see e.g. Montague , 1968 ; Scott , 1970 ; Lewis , 1972 ) . |
| 21 | When paths are short , every rule on the path will gain an improved weight after just a few searches , and for a good rule , the gain in weight will be significant even if the rule is first on the path . |
| 22 | But such a big change would be desirable only if the structure of local government was reformed , to make it more responsive to local opinion . |
| 23 | I believe that that money has been carried forward , which means that funds are available today if the Minister should decide to pay the Axminster practice . |
| 24 | Conversely , if the intermediary is a market counterparty ( see page 29 below ) , the intermediary rules are irrelevant even if the client is identified ; the intermediary is not a customer and therefore the rules do not apply . |
| 25 | The sharper increase in relief expenditure once the boom of the early 1790s gave way to the food crises of the mid 1790s , with only brief respite before the hyper-crisis of 1800 – 1 , is unmistakable even if the wartime inflation from 1793 is taken account of . |
| 26 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 27 | Why is this so if the curriculum is to be based on research ? |
| 28 | It 's nicer still if the table changes in the word processor when you make an alteration to your original spreadsheet . |
| 29 | This is n form of working memory , as the cue is meaningful only if the animal remembers where it has just come from . |
| 30 | It is true that exercise should stretch every part of the body , but it is safe only if the body is in a stable , well-balanced position in the first place . |