Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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31 And so his words , ‘ Bless those who persecute you ; bless and do not curse ’ sound like a counsel of perfection only if we fail to realise the process of transformation which is needed to enable us realistically to respond in this way to aggression from others .
32 Only if you 'ad to go to work , ’ said Dolly .
33 The Chief Constable replies , ‘ Only if you agree to pay . ’
34 Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them .
35 Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA .
36 Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ?
37 Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island .
38 This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) .
39 Only if you promise to have lunch with me tomorrow ! ’ he demanded outrageously .
40 In doing so it attempts to limit the effects of the imbalance to the most superficial levels — in other words , the physical level — and only if it fails to do so will emotional imbalances , or if the stresses go deeper , mental imbalances , be manifest .
41 A Mandela book might attract many of these readers , but only if he wants to write it .
42 An expert misconducts himself only if he fails to decide the issue in the way he has agreed with the parties to do : see 13.13 .
43 Indeed the Law Commission Working Paper No 77 , Implied Terms in Contracts for the Supply of Goods ( 1977 ) , recognised three possible approaches : firstly , the bailor is strictly liable ( Jones v Page ( 1867 ) 15 LT 619 per Kelly CB at p621 ) ; secondly , the goods must be as fit as care and skill can make them ( Hyman v Nye ( 1881 ) 6 QBD 685 per Lindley J at p682 ) ; thirdly , the bailor is liable only if he fails to take reasonable care to ensure that the goods are fit which , as the via media of the two other approaches , was eventually adopted in s9 of SGSA 1982 .
44 On the riverside , where the pathway could not be closed , a uniformed policeman paced imperturbably , and occasionally moved people along if they tended to congregate and linger too long .
45 Only cos he wants to snog .
46 Only cos he wants to have you in a bath .
47 We might begin by asking ourselves just what is a sexual problem : we may find the term a difficult one to define , and even more so if we attempt to assess the magnitude of the problem in any given situation or individual .
48 Quite simply , nothing unclean shall enter heaven or dwell in the presence of God so if we wish to spend eternity with Christ we need to be thoroughly and permanently cleansed from our sins , totally purged and in fact clothed with the righteousness of God .
49 So if we wish to touch the horse or communicate with the horse , we should do so in a way that is acceptable to the horse .
50 It does actually say together with other said officers and committee members as shall be determined by a general meeting , so if we wish to elect or choose somebody else we can do .
51 So if we wanted to do some , I mean if you , if you can use that to do mental arithmetic to impress your mates , that 's .
52 It 's overall you know so if we choose to direct some money for
53 So if we want to support pragmatism on the second , political dimension , we must accept and then exploit its central feature , its skepticism about legal rights .
54 So if we want to find out , and twenty five over a hundred , we 've got the s , it 's a special fraction , and it used to have a special name for it , and we call these percentages , twenty five per hundred , twenty five hundredths , we just say twenty five per cent .
55 mm , the thing is though , that was n't a Court hearing yesterday and whatever they say is gon na incriminate them so if they want to ask them questions they 've got ta take them to Court have n't they ?
56 even though they might be part and parcel of the same organization , they are not the leaseholders so they ca n't make the arrangements , so if they want to make the arrangement they must have the lease assigned to them first , then we will come to terms with them over land and to under le under let .
57 Indemnity policies protect the lender , not the borrower , so if you failed to keep up mortgage payments and the house had to be sold for less than your outstanding debt , the insurance company would pay the lender the difference , but might sue you for that amount !
58 and then start losing confidence , wasting time , if you 've got some check , like that , right , okay , so if you like to work that one out , you should n't have any problem with the , the second bar , if you can do the first one .
59 So if you like to write that one down .
60 Eight so if you had to explain to her about fractions , how could you tell her about what 's what is it all
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