Example sentences of "if [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 2 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
| 3 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 4 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 5 | Some diets are not successful at all but some are , even if only for a short time . |
| 6 | When the slings and arrows of outrageous everyday life buffet our heads , we escape to Assynt , even if only for a long weekend , and always return refreshed , perspective regained . |
| 7 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |
| 8 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 9 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
| 10 | His new civility did not last , but , as Daisy Yates remarked one day in the following week , it had been pleasant not to have such a right little God Almighty in Cas. , if only for a short time . |
| 11 | Well , of course this option must be open , but the needs of the women who choose to stay at home , if only for a short time , can not be ignored . |
| 12 | It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude . |
| 13 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 14 | Poetry 's ability to cast things in a kind of temporary order , to defy the destabilising effects of time , if only for a moment , will be a recurrent theme of this chapter . |
| 15 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 16 | She wished she 'd brought something to do that would take her mind off her anxiety if only for a moment . |
| 17 | Always lock your car whenever you leave it , even if only for a moment . |
| 18 | We could do the same , but every piece of music must have its own shape , and many composers introduce new material at this point , even if only for a brief few bars . |
| 19 | Opportunities to relax and let her guard down , even if only for a few hours , had been rare . |
| 20 | Fifty years later they captured Delphi , if only for a brief period . |
| 21 | Surely , to get her out of that tedious place — if only for a time — must be a better answer . |
| 22 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 23 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 24 | Everyone felt a desire to go out , even if only for a moment , to feel the pleasure of walking in a foreign city at night . |
| 25 | Stay , if only for a little while . ’ |
| 26 | Freedom , if only for a short time , and she would have a chance to speak to Rose , whom she had not seen since their evening out together up West . |
| 27 | Such a relief to be among the long , wet grass and blue , blue skies , to feel free and alive , to be alone with her thoughts , unfettered , if only for a while , from the frustrations and restraints of yesterday . |
| 28 | On second thoughts , it might not be such a bad idea , if only for a different reason . |
| 29 | In a sense , a very basic one , the riots were political : " a groping desire to settle accounts with the rich , if only for a day and to achieve some rough kind of social justice " . |
| 30 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |