Example sentences of "[vb infin] only if the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions about the reasonableness of the amount charged would arise only if the concept was part of that contract . |
| 2 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 3 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 4 | The microorganism must invade the body tissues before infection results and , following invasion , infection will develop only if the body defence mechanisms fail to prevent multiplication of the pathogen . |
| 5 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 6 | Care must be taken in cases where a tragic situation is concerned e.g. Claimant suffering from a serious or terminal illness as the exclusion will apply only if the claim arises as a consequence of the illness . |
| 7 | It is the sort of thing which would happen only if the person was in some unusual condition , such as a fever . |
| 8 | Yet the Dorset TEC said that it could manage only if the scheme was cut in half . |
| 9 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 10 | Although questions of interpretation are traditionally questions of law the court will intervene only if the expert has asked himself the " wrong question " : see 13.6.8 , 13.8 and 13.9 . |
| 11 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 12 | If this were not so a plaintiff could , by seeking mandamus , evade the restrictive rule that an action in tort for an injunction to restrain breach of statutory duty will lie only if the duty is owed to the plaintiff individually because , as we have seen , the applicant for mandamus only needs to have a ‘ sufficient interest ’ in the performance of the duty . |