Example sentences of "only if [pron] [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only if it 's damaged in the normal course of play , ’ said Stevie . |
| 2 | ( A company is normally considered to be ‘ resident ’ only if it is incorporated in the UK , the Channel Islands , the Isle of Man or the Irish Republic and has its head office and place of central management in one of these jurisdictions . ) |
| 3 | An expert system using the expertise in fault diagnosis ( BM or RTF ) preventive/predictive maintenance ( PM or CM ) , reliability centred maintenance ( RCM ) and linked to , or embedding , a CMMS would represent the ‘ complete ’ solution only if it is integrated with Operations Systems ( ie Operations Planning/Scheduling , JIT and Inventory Control Systems , etc . ) |
| 4 | This entails , as was pointed out above , that disobedience to a law is justified only if it is justified by an existing legal doctrine to that effect . |
| 5 | This is because an anticipatory repudiation terminates a contract only if it is accepted by the innocent party , Fercometal S.a.r.l. v. Mediterra-nean Shipping Co. ( 1988 H.L. ) . |
| 6 | The very concept of liberation makes sense only if it is viewed against the backdrop of unjust oppression , and while the notion of unjust oppression no doubt assumes many guises , it is incomprehensible to me how we might understand it apart from the idea of the violation of basic moral rights . |
| 7 | I am not against physical punishment if it is needed , but only if it is called for . |
| 8 | The doctrine of consideration provides that a promise will bind the promisor only if it is given as the price for another 's promise or as the price for an action which involves a detriment to the promisee . |
| 9 | It seems then that a Romalpa clause will , if properly worded , work in the case of unmixed goods and the proceeds of sale of unmixed goods , but that in the case of mixed goods ( and their proceeds of sale ) will work only if it is registered as a charge created by the buying company . |
| 10 | A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net . |
| 11 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 12 | Mr Pavlov said that the anti-crisis programme will work only if it is backed by all 15 republics . |
| 13 | The Chinese consider the clenched fist as a weak and vulnerable weapon , to be used rarely and only if it is aimed at a soft part of the body . |
| 14 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |