Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 3 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 4 | ‘ We will not surrender even if it takes forever , ’ said Corporal Roy Bantung . |
| 5 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 6 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | It does not break even if it lands directly on other eggs because its shell is twice as thick as those of the host bird . |
| 9 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 10 | A symbolic arrow can function only if it has a target , explicit or implicit . |
| 11 | But this will happen only if it gets its act together in the three areas of service provision , education , and research . |
| 12 | She did not know if it would reach Beatrix , of course , nor whether she would respond even if it did . ’ |
| 13 | America can lead only if it knows where it is going |
| 14 | He 'll even pay more if it means saving services . |
| 15 | If a horse does pull from anxiety , it is always worthwhile trying a milder bit — in an enclosed space , he can not go far if it does not work . |
| 16 | Once it has found a nipple , the tip swells in its mouth so that the young is not able to let go even if it wanted to . |
| 17 | What would it prove anyway if it turned out that there was a man and that man was Connon ? |
| 18 | May help especially if it has not already been given directly after the birth . |