Example sentences of "[adj] only if " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the floating charge is practicable only if created by a body corporate , there is a separate system for the registration of company charges , there are distinct statutory procedures for the enforcement of the floating charge , certain provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 affecting company charges are unique to corporate insolvency , and the floating charge can be used tactically in order to veto the making of an administration order . |
| 2 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 3 | As is customary , only £500 of each fine was payable , the rest suspended for 12 months and enforcable only if either club appears on a similar disrepute charge within that time . |
| 4 | Human thought is something essentially expressible in language , and language is possible only if there are predicates as well as names . |
| 5 | Many of them were possible only if the NILP got control of Stormont and were propaganda points in its ideological war against the doctrines of Orange and Green . |
| 6 | And this is possible only if they have control over the processes that convert raw materials to products of value . |
| 7 | Such a reference is possible only if that member state claims ( within three weeks of receiving a copy of the notification ) that the merger may create or strengthen a dominant position in a distinct market within its territory . |
| 8 | To establish laws of nature without analogizing would be possible only if there is indeed a logical operation for inferring from the particular to the universal , which induction is supposed to be . |
| 9 | Modelling is possible only if : |
| 10 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 11 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 12 | Under sections 1 and 14 someone can be guilty only if he makes a false statement ‘ in the course of a trade or business . ’ |
| 13 | An alternative view is that the accused is guilty only if he foresaw that he might not be able to redeem the article . |
| 14 | Under s.4(3) the accused is guilty only if he has a commercial purpose . |
| 15 | The criminal law , however , did recognise that an accused could be guilty only if he acted in a grossly negligent fashion . |
| 16 | In Bateman [ 1925 ] All ER Rep 45 , Lord Hewart said that a person was guilty only if he demonstrated " such disregard for the life and safety of others as to amount to a crime against the State and conduct deserving of punishment " , a circular definition but one which gives a flavour of the topic . |
| 17 | They become destructive only if they are suppressed and denied . |
| 18 | We are indebted to Beumont et al for having grasped the nettle in laying down the grade at which a girl or woman can expect to be respected as a climber and transcend the status defined by ‘ bimbo , ’ i.e. interesting only if she happens to be pretty . |
| 19 | If , for example , two people watch young tearaways behaving in an abusive manner towards them from a safe distance across the street , a conviction would be proper only if they were really likely to fear that violence would be likely to be used against them ( or another ) . |
| 20 | The Entrance Examination produced the usual number of candidates ( about 350 ) , but of these half would be interested only if a bursary or some other sort of aided place could be provided . |
| 21 | The National Association of Pension Funds would prefer to see executive share options exercisable only if the share price has out-performed a suitable benchmark , such as the FTA All Share Index . |
| 22 | So the decision in the Factories Act case was justifiable only if the Act was regarded as not plain . |
| 23 | For example , routes will frequently be made economical only if adults are taken on the school transport services . |
| 24 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 25 | It follows that the meaning of ontological claims becomes fully transparent only if such claims are seen in the context of certain life-modalities of those who make such claims ; in effect , all such claims become interpretable as forms of man " sown self-understanding . |
| 26 | This answer would be fully acceptable only if the speaker is fully aware of his situation and can do nothing at present to ease it . |
| 27 | This is acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the method gives a reasonable approximation of the actual cost . |
| 28 | String theories , however , have a bigger problem : they seem to be consistent only if space-time has either ten or twenty-six dimensions , instead of the usual four ! |
| 29 | The statement explained that war resistance was appropriate only if the Government engaged in military action unsanctioned by the League — a qualification that is nowhere to be found in Trevelyan 's resolution . |
| 30 | General grants would be appropriate only if the grantor felt that all local services were merit goods . |