Example sentences of "if [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 2 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |
| 3 | When the slings and arrows of outrageous everyday life buffet our heads , we escape to Assynt , even if only for a long weekend , and always return refreshed , perspective regained . |
| 4 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 5 | Some diets are not successful at all but some are , even if only for a short time . |
| 6 | His new civility did not last , but , as Daisy Yates remarked one day in the following week , it had been pleasant not to have such a right little God Almighty in Cas. , if only for a short time . |
| 7 | Well , of course this option must be open , but the needs of the women who choose to stay at home , if only for a short time , can not be ignored . |
| 8 | Freedom , if only for a short time , and she would have a chance to speak to Rose , whom she had not seen since their evening out together up West . |
| 9 | It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude . |
| 10 | Fifty years later they captured Delphi , if only for a brief period . |
| 11 | On second thoughts , it might not be such a bad idea , if only for a different reason . |
| 12 | Stay , if only for a little while . ’ |
| 13 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 14 | There follows the observation that the need for responsiveness to rapid technological change and fluctuating economic climate requires management to involve employees in the process of making decisions , if only for the practical reason that there will be great difficulty in carrying through decisions against resistance by trade unions . |
| 15 | Help was duly forthcoming — if only for the practical reason that the dollar was bound to suffer in the event of a sterling crisis . |
| 16 | The whole book is worth buying if only for the fourteenth-century teddy bear and cuddly elephant in colour in plate 27 . |
| 17 | Each time Celia re-entered the clinic he could not deny a feeling of overwhelming relief , although he still tried to spend at least one night at home mid-week , if only for the brief half-hour in the morning , which he was able to devote to Harry . |
| 18 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 19 | She would have stayed asleep , too , if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment . |