Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] if " in BNC.

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31 The basis of their Lordships ' decisions was that the minister could give a valid direction only if he was satisfied that no reasonable local authority could have decided as the Conservative majority did ; and that he could not have been so satisfied .
32 There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something .
33 More practices might consider a prescribing contract alone if they were allowed to retain a percentage of the savings .
34 can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ?
35 its only half an hour so if its not any good in half an hour , its neither here nor there is it ?
36 However , a firm may treat a client or counterparty as a market counterparty by virtue of its status as a member of a listed category only if : ( 1 ) The investment is of the right kind ; this will mean seeking information in advance from overseas persons as to the kinds of investment they regularly deal in and , if necessary , from exchange members as to the kinds of investment dealt in on the exchange ; ( 2 ) Normally , the firm notifies the client or counterparty in writing in advance that it will be treated as a market counterparty ( so that a notification is essential , except as referred to below ) and he has not told the firm that he does not want to be treated as a market counterparty in relation to the investments concerned .
37 Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate …
38 He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ .
39 It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking .
40 On this view , a doctor could avoid liability only if he could show that , apart from consenting , the patient was carefully studied and examined in a context where specialist medical and psychiatric facilities were available , that the consensus of expert opinion was that surgery was called for , and that this was explained to and understood by the patient before he gave his consent .
41 The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened .
42 Now the criminal law makes heavy weather of the issue of sex change only if over-rigid conceptualism is maintained and common sense abandoned .
43 Something er i it 's unlikely to be a negative response so if you
44 So I could in fact use it to prove that there should be a singularity only if the universe was expanding fast enough to avoid collapsing again ( since only those Friedmann models were infinite in space ) .
45 Introduce fixed-term Parliament of four years , with a known date for the next election , subject to an earlier election only if the government loses a special ‘ explicit ’ vote of no confidence .
46 If you look at the first page of the appendix B , er the outer route was was called was the blue route so if you look down
47 But one of the conditions set by the Japanese government was that its people should take part only if there were a ceasefire between the warring parties .
48 As the reader will appreciate , a country can fund a continuing current account deficit only if it has limitless reserves of gold and foreign exchange or unlimited foreign borrowing power .
49 Such restrictive terms will be upheld by the courts only if they are reasonable , such as when a computer programmer working for a bank agrees not to work for another similar bank within a five mile radius for the first year following the termination of his employment .
50 Business users may increasingly interpret custody of information as a localised responsibility especially if charging mechanisms mean they pay directly for assistance from the wider organisation .
51 When it 's a mizza , of course especially if it creates 25 new jobs .
52 I 'll tell you what Dad likes chocolate raisins so if
53 In any democracy , a government can commit its people to certain bloodshed only if it believes it has their support .
54 These methods , it must be said , result in this big rabbit-population reduction only if they are carried out efficiently .
55 Now to prove that result we just note again the elasticity formula D Q D P so if we differentiate that expression on the demand curve we 'll have we 'll have D P D Q Okay , and that equals .
56 The constraint that we shall perceive only that which is ‘ really there ’ is a true constraint only if ‘ really there ’ can be defined independently of the usual constraints of perception .
57 The Court of Appeal said that the plaintiffs would have had the right to review Coopers ' decision only if there could be implied into the original agreement words describing this kind of challenge which qualified the " final and binding " description of the decision in the appropriate manner .
58 Erm yeah so say all you need is just access to that field so if they do change you can just
59 And that would be calculated as the total amount dissolved in the ocean divided by its rate either of addition or removal so if we 're assuming steady state the two will be the same , whichever is easiest to ma measure and that would normally be expressed in years
60 So it 's , the , the Council does n't install central heating as a matter of course only if it 's a special case ?
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