Example sentences of "if [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those words are taken from the headnote in the Law Reports and seem a fair if wholly circular summary . |
| 2 | But so do many of the opposition groups here , entertaining a touching if economically illiterate faith in a third way which would involve neither reunification nor a return to capitalism . |
| 3 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 4 | However , he told a press conference that for deeply ingrained historical and cultural reasons , to integrate black and white school systems now would risk chaos in the education field as well as political and economic instability : ‘ One would probably increase the potential for conflict in the white community if eventually white education is controlled by anyone else but white people themselves . ’ |
| 5 | During the period from 1560 to 1625 , many contemporaries , both inside and outside England , had regarded the English church as a pragmatic , if rather unsatisfactory compromise between two purer denominations . |
| 6 | A more interesting if rather gruesome example of the point is an elaboration of Bertrand Russell 's story of the inductivist turkey . |
| 7 | It is a reputable if rather dull book , but Lord Derby was a dull man . |
| 8 | What had started as an unimportant if rather shameful seduction had become something altogether more painful . |
| 9 | As it happened progress proved possible in three directions in these years — the formation of Nato 's Nuclear Planning Group ; an agreed if rather fuzzy definition of flexible response ; and the negotiation of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the USSR . |
| 10 | The grandson of ATLAS , Bellerophon was a beautiful if rather arrogant youth . |
| 11 | Lunch was a grand if rather noisy affair . |
| 12 | An excellent if rather complex game . |
| 13 | The sun flames orange and pink behind the trees above the house , the breeze is cool rather than cold , scented with flowers and the sea , and you think what a pleasant if rather bland place this would be to settle down . |
| 14 | A useful if rather schematic starting-point is Lawton 's ( 1983 ) division of cultures into eight aspects or sub-systems which he argues can be used to analyse any culture : the social system , economic system , communication system , rationality system , technology system , morality system , belief system and aesthetic system . |
| 15 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 16 | Yet it is also possible to see the form as a stylized if rather primitive representation of the female deity . |
| 17 | One such Basque emigrant , who became a consul in Ecuador , even left his native village in his will one of the smaller Galapagos Islands , as an attractive if rather academic addition to its territory . |
| 18 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 19 | They drove back out of Bourton in the gloomy still gusty dusk but even in that light the village sprawled around shallow stream criss-crossed with toy bridges had an undeniable if rather practised charm . |
| 20 | An enjoyable if rather insubstantial loaf . |
| 21 | The present volume presents fifty-nine projects from ten countries with a clearly-written if rather congratulatory text by Rouard-Snowman , Professor of Graphic Design at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts , Paris and a designer herself . |
| 22 | The anchoress would be interred in this room in an impressive if rather disturbing ceremony during a Mass for the Dead . |
| 23 | The ESRC research makes fascinating , if rather depressing reading . |
| 24 | In this respect , it was only another , if rather drastic step in the long medieval controversy between the spiritual and temporal authorities . |
| 25 | Kanaan Abu Khadra was a case in point , a journalist in mandate Palestine — by all accounts a good one in a crusading and courageous if rather partisan sort of way — who founded and edited a newspaper called Al Shaab . |
| 26 | Mr. Harden came and a comfortable party of faces ’ was his descriptive if rather enigmatic remark . |
| 27 | Strangely enough , they consistently demand outrageous prices for things like basket-case Eko Rangers and Westone basses that have obviously been used to fell fair-sized pine trees , but they also have the laughably ignorant if highly convenient habit of pricing guitar amplifiers on the simple basis of how large they are . |
| 28 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 29 | He had already begun to establish friendly relations with the man , portraying himself meanwhile as an amiable if somewhat tedious fellow with francophobic leanings . |
| 30 | The problem , therefore , is not Understanding Media ( the title of McLuhan 's great if somewhat misconceived book ) but Understanding Global Capitalism , the system that produces and reproduces both the message and the media that incessantly transmit it . |