Example sentences of "if only [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard . |
| 2 | If only because the offence is defined in terms of ‘ duty ’ the concept must be in some way limited to the ways that the law obliges the constable to act , in however attenuated or weak a sense of that word . |
| 3 | It is at least conceivable that political interference has taken place or could take place in the audit , if only because the auditor is appointed by the Secretary of State ; although there are no obvious examples of this having happened . |
| 4 | This would be difficult to do if only because the story is far from fully played out . |
| 5 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 6 | Very many court decisions have an impact far beyond the interests of the litigants , if only because the doctrine of precedent makes them relevant to the affairs of others . |
| 7 | This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles . |
| 8 | We can not ignore that growth , if only because the machinery and procedures adequate to manage 5,000 are entirely inappropriate for 50,000 and more . |
| 9 | This is nearer realization than it was in the late 1980s if only because the practice and principles of GRIDS , together with further movements towards total self-evaluation , have removed some of each party 's defensiveness . |
| 10 | The ability to judge the potential role of chance without the aid of complicated statistics is valuable , if only because the time and pain of calculation can be saved . |
| 11 | Although this ‘ slightly megalomaniac project ’ had been started on the strength of charitable donations , future progress should be funded by governments , if only because the project would otherwise be open to exploitation by private companies and their insatiable desire for secrecy . |
| 12 | Even today , however , the older idea still prevails on a vote by a show of hands , when the common law rule is that each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares held ; a rule which , although it can be altered by the constitution , is normally maintained , if only because the number of a human being 's hands can not be more than two . |
| 13 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 14 | He discards the assumption to which most of us still cling ( if only because the ground seems to melt under our feet if we think otherwise ) that we can clearly distinguish the literal and metaphorical uses of a word , fix the literal by definition , and leave the metaphorical to the poets . |
| 15 | However , vendors rarely find this acceptable , if only because the fact that the guarantee is then given to a third party may mean it has to be dealt with as a separate note in the balance sheet . |