Example sentences of "[adv] if a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if a few of our political masters were to read this book , and learn from it , they would recognise the dangers inherent in gambling with our children 's future for ideological gain . |
| 2 | A very frustrated Carrick supporter Perhaps if a few more ‘ frustrated supporters ’ came through the turnstiles on a Saturday the problem would n't exist . |
| 3 | Competitors are close-at-hand ( this means the trader can adjust his prices , if necessary — eg if a neighbouring stall is selling tomatoes at 30p a pound , the trader can reduce his tomatoes to the same price or lower ) |
| 4 | There should be evidence of the selected strategies being used properly eg if an analytical approach is being used for finding the minimum surface area of a container , while investigating containers , it would be expected that the steps of the process were correct . |
| 5 | Furthermore if a blocking strain of mouse is used ( if the mice are outbred this is most likely to be the case ) then care must be taken to ensure that 2-cell stage embryos are recovered from the oviducts late enough in the second cell cycle to ensure their normal development to blastocysts in vitro . |
| 6 | The full benefits of price stability and statutory independence for the European central bank , and indeed for the Bank of England — that must be a necessary institutional corollary — will be enjoyed only if a future Government and Parliament agree in good time to adopt a single European currency . |
| 7 | Only if a legal system was eventually brought in would a breach of contract become a criminal breach of the law . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the bipartite system remained in place and would be fundamentally modified only if a powerful political will to do so could be mobilized . |
| 9 | We require two types of jump instruction ; one ( the unconditional jump ) which always changes the program counter , and one ( the conditional jump ) which changes the program counter only if a certain condition is true ( such as that the accumulator contains a non-negative value ) ; if the condition is false , the next instruction to be executed is the one stored immediately after the jump instruction . |
| 10 | We therefore require a set of conditional jump or conditional branch instructions , which transfer control to the instruction at the specified store address only if a certain condition is met ; if the condition is not met , the next instruction to be executed is that immediately following the jump instruction . |
| 11 | But that would seem to imply that only if a rich peasant rents out more land than he owns and works either by himself or hired labour , he will be able to keep that all . |
| 12 | Permfax is always ready to advise on pools problems , large or small , but only if a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed for his reply . |
| 13 | Any such calculation should be done ‘ manually ’ only if a useful check on data preparation would thereby be provided . |
| 14 | Such talk can be given meaning only if a James-type account is accepted . |
| 15 | The ideal tactics should be a mixture of both , but only if a clear message can be communicated to the Hong Kong people that someone is standing up for them somewhere . |
| 16 | Likewise , if past convention has made a particular layout familiar ( such as time increasing downwards or from left to right ) , a change should be considered only if a clear advantage is to be gained . |
| 17 | Only if a just result can be achieved without violating the legislative purpose of the statute may the judge select the construction which best suits his idea of what justice requires . |
| 18 | Effective vaccines prevent such hazards , but only if a social organization ensures that all potential mothers are vaccinated in good time . |
| 19 | Only if a National Government was really inevitable was he willing to take his part in it . |
| 20 | procedurally , does it apply whenever Article 1600A is used or only if a qualified majority vote is taken ? |
| 21 | The reward is given only if a desirable behaviour occurs and the punisher is given only if undesirable behaviour occurs . |
| 22 | In the last analysis , the Parliament would be able to block a decision in those areas , but only if an absolute majority of its members turned out to vote the proposal down . |
| 23 | Such an alliance was unacceptable to a number of DYP deputies and to the SHP ; the RP had said that it would co-operate only if an Islamic leader was first agreed on to replace Özal . |
| 24 | Many common locutions are semantically well-formed only if an appropriate semantic relation holds between certain of their lexical constituents . |
| 25 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |
| 26 | Of its own motion the court may decide to bring a private prosecution to the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service ; indeed a justices ' clerk is obliged to do so if a private prosecutor withdraws or fails to proceed in circumstances in which the reason given appears unsatisfactory . |
| 27 | So if a three piece suite cost say a hundred and fifty pounds , you had to put fifty pounds down . |
| 28 | However the time taken to re-charge the capacitor is proportional to the charging time constant , so if a high resistance is used the capacitor may not be completely charged when its stored energy is next required . |
| 29 | So if a forty percent deduction is made on category two , then somebody receiving thirty one pounds forty a week would actually , it would actually be reduced by twelve pounds fifty five . |
| 30 | So if an unexpected rise in demand occurs , they meet it partly by producing more and partly by running down their stocks of finished goods . |