Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] [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 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We must try and get some really good ones though if he brings that machine in . |
| 16 | Well if she lasts another year and I 'll last another year , she 'll be older than me wo n't she ? |
| 17 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
| 18 | The hunter is thus motivated primarily by self-interest and pragmatism — the fear of possible retribution — even if he expresses these motives in religious and moral terms . |
| 19 | So Mr MacGregor 's hard work may yet come to grief , even if he sorts that problem out there 's another obstacle to privatization running smoothly , many on the railways think the private sector will need a generous subsidy before they 'd be interested , if their not attracted the state will have to spend more to make the new structure work , a lot more . |
| 20 | And how can a farm worker strike against an employer whom he knows to be , more often than not these days , a solicitous and considerate person , even if he pays low wages ? |
| 21 | Even if he has fewer votes than his competitors jointly , he is still the winner by virtue of having more votes than any one of them . |
| 22 | Even if it meets these conditions , it will not be entitled to the concessions unless , at no time during the year , has it , or any member of the group of which it is a member , been a public company , a banking or insurance company or an authorised person under the Financial Services Acts and , if it is a parent company , unless the group qualifies as a small or medium-sized group . |
| 23 | It never happens completely spontaneously , even if it feels that way . |
| 24 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 26 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 27 | The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point … |
| 28 | Do it right now , even if it interrupts another activity . |
| 29 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 30 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |