Example sentences of "can only [verb] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a possibility can only arise if the impulsive components of the matter tensor occurring on the boundary of region IV have negative energy density . |
| 2 | Secondly , that liability to pay can only arise if the company goes into liquidation . |
| 3 | This effect can only arise if the nonword " are being transformed into a phonological code before lexical access is attempted . |
| 4 | You can only score if your centre of gravity is inside the area as your technique makes contact . |
| 5 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 6 | Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values . |
| 7 | Democracy in East European countries and the USSR can only succeed if both the Warsaw Pact and NATO restructure those parts of their military forces assigned to Europe to make them non-offensive . |
| 8 | The hunt has strong religious overtones , and it can only succeed if harmony and peace prevail . |
| 9 | This programme can only succeed if the public are able to understand what is being done with their money , and why , and are encouraged to work with the landowners concerned so that the most practical and cost- efficient results are obtained . |
| 10 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 11 | And the Attorney-General can only act if there is a complaint about sentence within 28 days of the verdict and can only refer it for review on grounds of leniency . |
| 12 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 13 | There is tremendous customer loyalty involved in the fortunes of Champagne , but this loyalty can only survive if it has a two-way traffic . |
| 14 | Lothian Highways can only survive if it operates as a TEAM . |
| 15 | This talented orchestra can only survive if the people of Merseyside continue to support it . |
| 16 | In the first place , he contests its equation with any anthropological definition of ‘ man ’ ; in the second , he argues that Sartre 's description of history as making up one ‘ History ’ with one meaning is only achieved through the exclusion of all other histories with other meanings : the totalization can only totalize if everything which remains other to it is excluded . |
| 17 | That 's a conditional gift divorce makes it that that gift is revoked but she may still survive therefore the condition would apply and therefore the subsequent er provisions that you 've made in a will do n't apply because they can only apply if the wife survives twenty eight days but that 's ignored ! |
| 18 | You can only apply if money is not an issue at the time of the divorce . |
| 19 | Families can stay together through an extremely difficult period — but this can only happen if organisations like ACET are sufficiently funded . |
| 20 | A This can only happen if you do not cast off any stitches at the centre and sides of the neck . |
| 21 | Of course , this can only happen if you have been tested . |
| 22 | With given , this can only happen if rises . |
| 23 | It 's not good enough to say that union members can only participate if they become full members of the Party . |
| 24 | This particular game can only work if the concept of a vow to give sanctuary is something the participants already have a vested interest in . |
| 25 | I can only wonder if it will bear very much relationship to the manifesto finally produced by the Conservative party before the next European election . |
| 26 | This example illustrates another useful point , i.e. that a frame in free fall as generally understood must be a frame free of any rotation about the geodesic path ; clearly metric connections can only vanish if both linear acceleration and acceleration due to rotation vanish . |
| 27 | Any time that a wing begins to drop at a stall it is the beginning of a possible spin , but the spin can only develop if the wing is kept stalled and the glider is allowed to continue to yaw . |
| 28 | A swing can only occur if the tail is sliding sideways over the ground . |
| 29 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 30 | This can only occur if the superior initially possesses the authority to delegate , ie a subordinate can not be given organisational authority to make decisions unless it would otherwise be the superior 's right to make those decisions . |