Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] only [verb] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary herself was quite keen , stipulating though that she would only stay if Rufus did not . |
| 2 | There 's a lot of emphasis these days about individuals growing as individuals , but are you really saying that because women are obviously individuals they ought to be given the opportunity of growing in a way that they could only do if they had jobs ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You need to impress on him that it will only work if it is done properly — that there must be absolutely no cheating . |
| 5 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |