Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] if it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spray is not merely unpleasant , but is also extremely painful if it reaches its target directly . |
| 2 | In general , technical description is only appropriate if it illustrates a point in your argument , as can be seen from problems in the following excerpt : The sonnet structure is appropriate to the subject . |
| 3 | Insurance is only valuable if it serves a purpose . |
| 4 | Massive coverage may look good but it is a lot less valuable if it appears in media which are not seen by your ultimate target audience . |
| 5 | This is the Achilles ' heel of Abelard 's theory , because Christ 's death is only explicable if it saves us from a serious and dreadful predicament which is of eternal significance . |
| 6 | This example teaches us that a statement " x is frequent in A " is only meaningful if it acts as a shorthand for " x is more frequent in A than in B " . |
| 7 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 8 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 9 | To talk of ‘ self-made man ’ in this way is perhaps misleading if it refers to any unique evolutionary mechanisms relating to technology , as Kingdon seems to suggest . |
| 10 | The benefit of the contract is only assignable if it makes no difference to the person on whom the obligation lies as to whether the obligation is discharged to the vendor or to the purchaser . |
| 11 | It 's not so bad if it 's got picture , you know what 's inside it then . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure if it has frilly paid the Ministry for the land . |
| 13 | Yeah I 'm not sure if it mentions the magic words |
| 14 | Branson 's feeling that ‘ competition is good for the consumer if fares come down , but not good if it puts us out of business ’ constituted a political education of sorts . |
| 15 | So , so , I believe it 's alright to say well people will migrate in the presence of , it 's rational for a person to migrate in the presence of , of high unemployment if high unemployment only refers to the formal sector , but it 's not rational if it implies that it refers to informal and formal . |
| 16 | It may therefore be advisable to delete this proviso , but it is not disastrous if it remains . |
| 17 | For it is part of magic 's function to conceal its real dynamic under a smoke-screen of fustian and fantasy , precisely because magic is no longer magic if it ceases to be the monopoly of the class or section who practise it . |
| 18 | it 's obviously a tame bird and I 'm not certain if it knows how to kill . |
| 19 | The new law says a bank is not liable if it has accepted the cheque ‘ in good faith and without negligence ’ . |
| 20 | Er I 'm not surprised if it turns out and people think it 's good cos I spend when I 'm in the part it becomes my life so I do n't really judge it in terms of good or bad , I just it becomes like breathing . |
| 21 | scientists found that the linear chain is more stable if it undergoes a Peierls ( pronounced piles ) distortion ; each electron interacts with only one of its neighbours to form a structure of alternating short ( double ) and long ( single ) carbon-carbon bonds . |
| 22 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 23 | This discussion will be even more urgent if it becomes common for criminal proceedings to arise from road traffic accidents . |
| 24 | Large or small , a home is always more saleable if it has gas central heating . |
| 25 | It seems probable , then , that a belief can only be genuinely infallible if it has no content at all . |
| 26 | For such cream cheeses moulds are not strictly necessary , although the cheese looks more presentable if it has been pressed in a muslin-lined basket , a heart-shaped mould , a cake tin pierced with holes , even an expendable carton or a flower pot — always provided that the essential lining is not forgotten . |
| 27 | For males sex may be very important , but for females reproduction may be , may be more significant if it involves as it does in the case of all mammals and certainly human beings , considerable parental investment on the part of the mother . |
| 28 | The problem list is likely to be most useful if it has been jointly formulated by the patient and the therapist ( p. 70 ) . |
| 29 | A final syllable is also unstressed if it contains ( e.g. follow' , ‘ borrow ’ ) . |
| 30 | The benefits to the firm of debt forgiveness are now taxable if it happens privately , but remain tax-free if it happens under chapter 11 . |