Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal element in capital is party support for public approval , and presidential electoral success will count for little if the seats in Congress are not there . |
| 2 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 3 | In the recent research selectivity exercise , major contributions to computer methods and the creation of publicly available datasets which emanated from within history departments across the country , counted for little if anything . |
| 4 | Well , life on a Venture will be ‘ life in its fullness ’ for most if not all of those attending . |
| 5 | Usually it is the husband who is committed to his career and to increasing his earning capacity , and who is dependent upon his wife for most if not all of the child care and domestic responsibilities , organization , routine , style and comfort . |
| 6 | Hirschman , too , stressed that Latin American countries who by and large had disregarded the wisdom of the liberals had nevertheless managed to improve material standards for most if not all their people ( Hirschman , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Caroline would give me hell for evermore if she thought I 'd ill-treated her best friend . |
| 8 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 9 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 10 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 11 | The other alternative is to claim that the very constitution of individuals as intentional subjects serves to legitimate capitalist modes of production , for only if individuals perceive themselves as free agents will these alienating arrangements seem tolerable . |
| 12 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 13 | Overseas markets too are affected , for only if they can reach ports at reasonable cost and efficiency can goods be readily exported . |
| 14 | Well yeah they just shove you out on the street , they got ta especially if you got children they got ta re-house you . |
| 15 | He might be hangin' on , but it wo n't be fer long if we do n't git ‘ im to Dawson County Hospital PDQ . |
| 16 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 17 | It needs to be on the agenda , both formal and informal , of most if not all staffrooms . |
| 18 | A paternalistic concern for the well-being of the nation has been a feature of most if not all monarchs and has been associated with a particular and often predominant tradition within the Conservative party . |
| 19 | In a couple of years-sooner if a child is born — I 'll be forgiven and Anna will be taken into the family . |
| 20 | For example , separate decisions need to be taken in relation to : ( 1 ) VAT registrationwhere , if the partners of the new office are not to be the same as those carrying on business at headquarters , separate registration will be required ; ( 2 ) preparation of accountswhere if separate accounts for each office are kept , with separate accounting dates ( which is a matter to be settled between the partners and the firm 's accountants and involves no breach of professional conduct whichever decision may be taken ) , accountants ' reports will have to be produced in respect of each office ; ( 3 ) identity of the partnerswhether the new office should be run as a separate partnership or as a branch office ; ( 4 ) investment business certificatesseparate certificates will be needed if there is not an identity of partners at all a firm 's offices . |
| 21 | Footwork and willpower you could run out of Especially if you 're using . |
| 22 | It is probably the method most associated with the idea of social research constituting the source of much if not most of social science data . |
| 23 | danger of sort of like if you 've got ta time like yeah sort of thing somebody else questions ten minutes . |
| 24 | just added it up and sort of like if you take twenty , if you take an hour as being seven days , erm , twe , twe , twenty one hours , and what have you got the total there , three , eight , eleven , eleven and a half hours selling out of the whole of that , actual selling on your B M S , well they 'll give the things that we both disagree are important , and then you do get chance to do the selling what we 're predominately ; |
| 25 | imagine that but just done in complete black with white lines , yeah , like sort of like if with white lines going down |
| 26 | Probably contemporary with this are some bronze shields with relief decoration of purely if crudely oriental character . |
| 27 | So the centre line is an is an important aspect of Now if you 're holding your notes yeah I I mean that 's not a very open sort of centre line is it because I 've got this as a barrier . |
| 28 | ‘ You get made fun of really if other boys think you still have n't had sex . |
| 29 | But I said to well you know Dave and I will be in the rest of today if you do get worried . |
| 30 | ‘ It must be got rid of even if it means that the Prime Minister goes down with her own flagship ’ . |