Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | To extend a statute to a regrettably omitted case looks like legislation , whereas refusing to extend it to a casus male inclusus is more like imposing a provisional fetter on legislation ( provisional , because Parliament can always come back and include the case expressly if it wants to ) . |
| 2 | Now we 've just said there needs to be some level somewhere if you 're right down this end of the curve here you 're either asleep or dead so there 's some peak performance at some level of anxiety or arousal and as the anxiety increases the performance drops off . |
| 3 | I 'd refuse them admission altogether if I could afford to lose the business . ’ |
| 4 | Instructors can be mistaken about their students ' ability to control the initial part properly if one or two launches go well . |
| 5 | My argument is that a place may be a paradise only if humans can live there — the picture must sell not merely paradise , but the idea of the ‘ enjoyment ’ of paradise . |
| 6 | Students received a certificate only if they successfully completed the whole course : partial success was not formally certificated . |
| 7 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 8 | She said she 'd get on with the cooking better if I came down here on my own . |
| 9 | The ‘ insuperable logical difficulty ’ to which James refers can not be the whole explanation , since it appears as a difficulty only if the general conceptual background of the local sign theory is granted . |
| 10 | The Community would monitor Hungary 's programme to restructure its economy on more market-oriented lines , and disburse the second and third tranches of the money only if satisfied about progress . |
| 11 | The Community would monitor Hungary 's programme to restructure its economy on more market-oriented lines , and disburse the second and third tranches of the money only if satisfied about progress . |
| 12 | Yet they enjoy none of the advantages of debentureholders ; they receive a return on their money only if profits are earned ( and not necessarily even then ) , they rank after creditors on a winding-up and they have less effective remedies against the company . |
| 13 | This will produce the same triumphant progress only if ‘ the intellectual and moral faculties of man ’ are not of a deeply peculiar sort which makes the social world radically unlike the natural . |
| 14 | On June 30 Russian President Boris Yeltsin had made remarks suggesting that negotiations over the disputed islands could make progress only if Japan provided economic aid to Russia . |
| 15 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 16 | This is because an anticipatory repudiation terminates a contract only if it is accepted by the innocent party , Fercometal S.a.r.l. v. Mediterra-nean Shipping Co. ( 1988 H.L. ) . |
| 17 | Plus , of course , it means you 're gon na go back in that direction so if they say something like erm two chlorapropane active with you need to be able to get structural formula from that name . |
| 18 | When the defence relied upon is ‘ act or default of another person , ’ the defendant will have a good defence only if he has also made available to the prosecution such information as he has identifying that other person . |
| 19 | However , even a change from one class of use to another will require planning permission only if the change is deemed to be a ‘ material ’ change : if , for instance , an entrepreneur wishes to convert a shop , which falls into the class of buildings used primarily for the sale of goods by retail , into a restaurant see Westminster City Council v. McDonald 's Hamburgers ( 1986 ) 7 CL 325 ( b ) . |
| 20 | The basis of their Lordships ' decisions was that the minister could give a valid direction only if he was satisfied that no reasonable local authority could have decided as the Conservative majority did ; and that he could not have been so satisfied . |
| 21 | More practices might consider a prescribing contract alone if they were allowed to retain a percentage of the savings . |
| 22 | can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ? |
| 23 | its only half an hour so if its not any good in half an hour , its neither here nor there is it ? |
| 24 | However , a firm may treat a client or counterparty as a market counterparty by virtue of its status as a member of a listed category only if : ( 1 ) The investment is of the right kind ; this will mean seeking information in advance from overseas persons as to the kinds of investment they regularly deal in and , if necessary , from exchange members as to the kinds of investment dealt in on the exchange ; ( 2 ) Normally , the firm notifies the client or counterparty in writing in advance that it will be treated as a market counterparty ( so that a notification is essential , except as referred to below ) and he has not told the firm that he does not want to be treated as a market counterparty in relation to the investments concerned . |
| 25 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |
| 26 | He claims that one can ‘ understand narrative better if one knows that a character is a noun , and the action a verb ’ . |
| 27 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 28 | On this view , a doctor could avoid liability only if he could show that , apart from consenting , the patient was carefully studied and examined in a context where specialist medical and psychiatric facilities were available , that the consensus of expert opinion was that surgery was called for , and that this was explained to and understood by the patient before he gave his consent . |
| 29 | The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened . |
| 30 | Now the criminal law makes heavy weather of the issue of sex change only if over-rigid conceptualism is maintained and common sense abandoned . |