Example sentences of "if [adv] because [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The views of North Wales MEP Joe Wilson are of interest , if only because he is so adamantly in favour of the treaty . |
| 2 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 3 | Obviously , this is a total IFR aircraft if only because it is pressurised , so some hours are devoted to what can best be described as ‘ autoflight programming and monitoring ’ . |
| 4 | All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers . |
| 5 | The school stories are still the major fodder of the magazine , if only because it is something universal to everyone in this country . |
| 6 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 7 | Exploitations of this maxim are , as Grice notes , a little harder to find , if only because it is hard to construct responses that must be interpreted as irrelevant . |
| 8 | Certainly , the school should not be confused with the workshop — as is frequently the case — if only because it is then difficult to credit the " school " with any real meaning . |
| 9 | Yet it is a view that is rather more difficult to dismiss , if only because there is at its heart a real , and so far unresolved , problem . |