Example sentences of "[adv] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Only , only if it creates inflation . |
| 32 | Resistance unity , in his view , served a purpose only if it served the interests of his " state " . |
| 33 | for it is difficult to see how the native could have any interest in the project of unveiling what can go on existing only if it remains veiled . |
| 34 | Known as the Intrastat system , the data can be submitted by a computerised medium but only if it meets Customs specification requirements and has prior approval . |
| 35 | The first : ‘ quality is conformance to requirements , ’ means that a product or service is of quality only if it meets the customer 's requirements . |
| 36 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 37 | The very work that solicitors are called to perform , which includes doing certain nasty things to people , can not be expected to make them universally popular , ; so the profession can retain public respect only if it observes high ethical standards , which not all practitioners do . |
| 38 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 39 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |
| 40 | Thus informed and protected you are ready — but only if it seems right for you — to embark upon a sexual journey that will last in one way or another for a life time . |
| 41 | A symbolic arrow can function only if it has a target , explicit or implicit . |
| 42 | The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result . |
| 43 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 44 | In the first place , it will be transferred only if it has been given previously to a candidate of higher preference now elected with a surplus or eliminated . |
| 45 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 46 | As the reader will appreciate , a country can fund a continuing current account deficit only if it has limitless reserves of gold and foreign exchange or unlimited foreign borrowing power . |
| 47 | an advertisement should be approved only if it complies , in all material respects , with the SIB rules ( see checklist of contents contained in the Interim Accounts Checklist ( Form 825 ) ) and when the working papers are complete ( including verification and recording of all facts ) |
| 48 | Never mind the inconsistencies of using the tools of free trade to secure human rights ( nobody is trying to deprive Iraq , for instance , of its MFN status ) : Congress thinks China should have MFN only if it treats its people better . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 51 | But only if it comes easily . |
| 52 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
| 53 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 54 | The United States has said it will guarantee ten billion dollars in loans to Israel only if it stops building settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 55 | In doing so it attempts to limit the effects of the imbalance to the most superficial levels — in other words , the physical level — and only if it fails to do so will emotional imbalances , or if the stresses go deeper , mental imbalances , be manifest . |
| 56 | He believes that Uralmash has a future only if it shrinks to a fraction of its present size and concentrates on making machinery that is likely to be in big demand , such as small bulldozers . |
| 57 | In any democracy , a government can commit its people to certain bloodshed only if it believes it has their support . |
| 58 | Hesh Wiener of Technology News of America comments that IBM is having to price current drives at less than half of list , and will make a success of the new ones only if it lists them at or below current street prices . |
| 59 | But planning officials and Labour councillors insist the scheme will works only if it gives shoppers maximum access to the road . |
| 60 | Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance ’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong . |