Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Perhaps if I knew the language , I would not have time for these facile analogies . ) |
| 2 | Perhaps if I ring the number the person who answers will know who I am . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps if I fellated the gentleman , would that prove my true Gallic blood ? ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps if he seized the moment , lifted her long mane of hair , kissed the tender little place where the fragile bones disappeared into the collar of her jacket … |
| 5 | Perhaps if he wrecked the thermostat , someone would think it worth putting a little pressure on their British friends . |
| 6 | The monotony is relieved somewhat if you have the opportunity to talk to a fellow traveller who feels the same about long train journeys , then you have something in common besides moaning about the rigours of train travel . |
| 7 | ‘ Sharon , sweetheart , I hope you wo n't mind terribly if I take the passenger seat ? ’ |
| 8 | Each proprietary brand of locator has its accompanying transmitter and it must be said that in all four instances these work better if you use the manufacturer 's pairing rather than permutating among the ones available . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the car needs repairsing and the garage says they 'll waive the five hundred pound storage bill but only if they get the job . |
| 10 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 11 | A directorate and management will succeed only if they have the trust of those with whom they work — the need to develop a common involvement is important . |
| 12 | At the time of signing , ratifying or acceding to this Protocol a State may declare that it will process the Letters rogatory to which this article applies only if they identify the relationship between the evidence or information requested and the pending proceeding . |
| 13 | The sceptic , it is argued , may well concede that the conceptual scheme that we use and rely on makes sense only if we posit the possibility of re-identifiable particulars , while at the same time insisting that no proof can be supplied of their actual existence . |
| 14 | Use of naturalistic information is wholly disallowed only if there can be some settlable choice of cognitive methods where all of our naturalistic information is available only if we resolve the choice in one of the possible ways . |
| 15 | We would understand the bark of a dog , like we do our own language , only if we had the mind of a dog . |
| 16 | ‘ Only if we pull the deal off . ’ |
| 17 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 18 | They stand an equal chance only if you get the price right . |
| 19 | But only if you know the market well enough to avoid the pitfalls . |
| 20 | Only if you satisfied the selection board there were you allowed to carry on and start basic training , which itself lasted four months . |
| 21 | Only if the whole person is engaged , he wrote , only if you have the sense that the truth , in however paradoxical a form , is on your side , that reality , no matter how disguised , is what you are working towards , only then will Proteus be defeated . |
| 22 | Only if I used the example of all mankind 's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds . |
| 23 | That , he says , is what the Next Steps is all about : ‘ It will succeed only if it changes the way business is done and accounted for . ’ |
| 24 | Likewise , football was to be consumed like any other consumer product — only if it offered the prospect of excitement — often as a TV spectacle in the comfort of one 's own home . |
| 25 | The first : ‘ quality is conformance to requirements , ’ means that a product or service is of quality only if it meets the customer 's requirements . |
| 26 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | This is important for the biologizing of consciousness : consciousness will evolve only if it improves the survival chances of creatures endowed with it ; and it will have survival value only if it accurately reports what is actually ‘ there ’ . |
| 28 | There is the Government 's view , which seems to see a large market as an end in itself , and there is the view expressed by my right hon. Friend , which sees a large market as successful only if it improves the quality of life of our citizens . |
| 29 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 30 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |