Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [be] [verb] if [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence of " fair comment " may only be sustained if the comment is on a matter of public interest . |
| 2 | Clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer : ( a ) believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them : ( i ) to cause physical injury to himself or another ; ( ii ) to damage property ; ( iii ) to interfere with evidence ; ( iv ) to assist him to escape ; or ( b ) has reasonable grounds for believing that they may be evidence relating to an offence . |
| 3 | The Official Solicitor should only be appointed if the child does not have a guardian ad litem and there are exceptional circumstances which make this desirable in the interests of the child 's welfare ( Lord Chancellor 's Direction , 7 October 1991 ) . |
| 4 | Again , this should only be done if the new entity has some meaning in itself . |
| 5 | These screws are for overall height adjustment purposes only and should only be touched if the desired action height is out of range for the individual saddle height screws . |
| 6 | Administrative decisions should only be overturned if the higher hurdle of real likelihood of bias could be overcome , and there are suggestions that the test should be further modified when the administrative body , such as a local authority , necessarily has an interest in the outcome of a decision . |
| 7 | Alcoholic drinks should only be given if the doctor allows it , and the patient must not be allowed to drink excessive amounts of alcohol . |
| 8 | The trade should only be stopped if the public found out about it , recommended a Foreign Office document obtained by TODAY . |
| 9 | Disadvantage : the chute can become fouled and therefore should only be built if the users are willing to keep it clean . |
| 10 | According to Rawls ' seminal work ( Rawls , 1972 ) , inequality should only be tolerated if the least well off are advantaged . |
| 11 | Good choices for bathroom lighting are enclosed ceiling-mounted lights or swivelling recessed eyeball spotlights ; pendant lighting should only be used if the lampholder is fitted with a long protective skirt . |
| 12 | It is probably too intrusive even to unconditionally ask the subject searcher to provide relevance information , and we believe that relevance judgements should only be requested if the system can detect that the user is either in trouble or being fairly persistent . |
| 13 | The ballistic expert 's evidence was that the defendant 's gun was fitted with a hammer block safety mechanism , which was in proper working order , so that it could only be fired if the trigger was fully pressed back . |
| 14 | The proposal of help could only be accepted if the BF altered their constitution to make explicit their belief in parliamentary government . |
| 15 | Twentieth-century evolutionists such as George Gaylord Simpson have argued that Darwin 's theory of adaptive evolution is incompatible with a belief in the necessity of progress , but in the late nineteenth century a philosophy of universal change could only be accepted if the changes were assumed to have a purposeful goal . |
| 16 | An employment visa ( munkavallaloi vizum ) , which could only be obtained if the foreigner had a work permit , was also introduced . |
| 17 | The achievement of such a skill by a pupil in response to this question could only be recorded if the method was known . |
| 18 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 19 | This form of control could only be exercised if the defect existed on the face of the record . |
| 20 | The application failed , as the decision could only be challenged if the decision was thoroughly unreasonable . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) . |
| 22 | But a difference between the two conditions ( the two INT groups of the figure ) could only be found if the effects of aversive conditioning were context-specific ; and , as we have already seen , aversive conditioning ( at least with a moderate level of initial training and a mild shock as the US such as Kaye et al . |
| 23 | The industry was protected until the early 1970s by the rule that foreign machines ( including IBM machines produced in Japan ) could only be purchased if a suitable Japanese model was not available . |
| 24 | The demand for reserve currencies was growing more quickly than the supply of gold , so a liquidity shortage could only be avoided if the supply of dollars was increased . |
| 25 | The bases could only be reactivated if the Egyptian Government agreed that there was a military threat to international integrity of the Suez Canal . |
| 26 | Nobody discovered , pre-opening , that the hair-dryers provided in one luxury provincial hotel could only be used if the guests bent double or sat on the bedroom floor . |
| 27 | A qualification that security need only be provided if the landlord reasonably so requires would be inadequate having regard to the non-immunity from failure of 'solid " commercial tenants in periods of recession . |
| 28 | Items marked with an asterisk [ * ] would only be given if the adventurers had overcome Drachenfels himself . |
| 29 | In addition GDR citizenship would only be lost if a citizen renounced it . |
| 30 | It would only be prevented if the Home Office intervened . ’ |