Example sentences of "if [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And usually the man telling me he understood if eventually when he starts the job , he has n't understood at all , he 's just saying so , but I wanted to prove to the man himself that he could do it and prove to myself that he could do it . |
| 2 | erm yes it should be okay perhaps you know if obviously if one bedroom a box room would n't be any good to us but that would be consider that |
| 3 | I think if especially if I was n't if it was one of if it was my main |
| 4 | Obviously , however , Bristol and West hopes to hear from interested people in advance — if only so it can gauge the likely demand for each property before the auction starts . |
| 5 | But through his eyes Watson was enabled to describe events of the utmost absurdity in a way that makes you believe , if only while you are in thrall to each book , that they really might have happened . |
| 6 | If only if I had that ability ! |
| 7 | Only if only if you 're a totter |
| 8 | As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him ! |
| 9 | My slide shows did go down reasonably well , if only because while the lights were out , they had the chance to change places under cover of darkness in the hope of confusing you know who . |
| 10 | In perpetuo , as Francis says , if only because no one else would be fool enough to do it . |
| 11 | Yet , whatever the short- and medium-term vicissitudes , it will almost certainly be completed , if only because any other course would be seen , however unreasonably , as a failure of political and diplomatic will on the part of this country . |
| 12 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 13 | Traditionally , country cottages and houses which have unusual or unique features or are in need of a lot of renovation may be auctioned , if only because valuation is likely to be difficult . |
| 14 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 15 | Another , more exotic , suggestion is Markus Wolf , the retired spy chief , if only because he sounds rather human and writes books . |
| 16 | In Easton routine policing is performed only by regular constables , but the ambiguous position of reserve police within the RUC warrants a brief mention of this section of the force , if only because there are no parallels between reserve police in the RUC and those in police forces in Great Britain and the United States . |
| 17 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 18 | Augustine might have grasped the point of this formulation quickly enough , if only because of what he and Lacan share in common : a sense of identity as constituted rather than constitutive , an effect of the pre-existing . |
| 19 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 20 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 21 | Transgressive reinscription will always remain controversial , if only because it raises such disturbing questions about desire itself , making it profoundly social and thereby asking equally disturbing questions about culture , representation , and social process . |
| 22 | The Boston text is more obviously an exhibition catalogue , if only because it includes a ‘ checklist ’ of the exhibition , which , ignoring the problematic identity of some of the works , distinguishes between works of art and other items ( books , tracts , pamphlets , etc. ) and also carefully identifies the status of individual exhibits by signifying their producer 's relationship to the formally identified Situationist group . |
| 23 | For long-distance cruising , the Calibra is the better choice , if only because it has a more absorbent and quieter motorway ride . |
| 24 | These results do not require us to dispense with the idea of an internal body clock , if only because they appear very rarely in experiments lasting only a week or so . |
| 25 | Most pundits , so far at least , rule out the prospect of a neutral unified Germany , if only because the Federal Republic is too deeply rooted in the West to distance itself from its allies . |
| 26 | Chocolate is a most romantic food if only because , as a woman , one expects to be showered with delicious boxes of confectionery at every possible moment ( husbands and lovers , take note ) . |
| 27 | It is harder to be confident about Romania , if only because politicians there , of whatever stripe , mostly treat their opponents as liars and scoundrels . |
| 28 | Umbilical hose systems sound expensive , if only because of the long sections of pipe needed . |
| 29 | Now if there are changes , such as non-replacing teeth and non-dividing nerve cells , which make young animals more efficient , at the cost of condemning old animals to senescence , these changes will be favoured by natural selection , if only because most animals die of accidents anyway before they are old . |
| 30 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |