Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] only if " in BNC.
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1 | She will do so only if Mr Major resigns . |
2 | The monetary committee 's report warns that any currency wishing to rejoin should do so only if there is mutual agreement on its parity . |
3 | In the light of the above , it is clear that two matrices having the same modal matrix do not necessarily permute ; they will do so only if their spectral matrices permute . |
4 | Section 22 empowers the Secretary of State to make an order dealing with the trade practice but he can do so only if the following requirements are fulfilled : |
5 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
6 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
7 | The Government should be negotiating to gain full recognition of the fact that monetary union and a single currency could work successfully only if there were convergence in the real economic performance of countries : convergence in terms of growth and employment , as well as in terms of inflation and interest rates . |
8 | This can occur not only if the goods subsequently perish but also , for example , if after the contract is made , it becomes illegal to carry it out . |
9 | San Diego Zoo expressed interest in buying two pairs of hoolock gibbons from him — but has since reassured IPPL that the sale will go ahead only if the animals are genuinely captive-bred . |
10 | But the signals will get through only if there is budget discipline : if , in other words , the still massive indirect subsidies to factories — tax exemptions , soft credits , loans — are cut at the same time . |
11 | As Ward has signed Lance Key on loan from Sheffield Wednesday until the end of the season , Marples is on the sidelines and will play again only if first choice Dean Kiely is injured , Key being unavailable for Fourth Division fixtures as he was signed after the transfer deadline . |