Example sentences of "[is] [adv] if " in BNC.

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1 But , significantly , this is rarely if ever what those writers advocated .
2 This moment is very private and is rarely if ever seen by outsiders , not even glimpsed through a window .
3 The line ferret follows up the work begun by the loose or muzzled ferret , and is rarely if ever encumbered with a muzzle itself .
4 He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble .
5 This is particularly so in the UK where the social class implications of accent , furnishings and behaviour are so complex that it is rarely if ever possible to produce a domestic situation which is really widely acceptable , in the fullest sense of the word .
6 It 's only if you let it take over your life that it 's wrong . ’
7 It 's only if jobs produced profit directly that they would consider workers deserve to be paid .
8 it 's only if you can reinforce it
9 And it 's only if there is no spouse that matters go rather more as might expect , namely firstly always the children or the issue if they are n't any of those to your parents brothers an sis er issue of parents therefore brothers sisters nephews and nieces .
10 It 's only if something suddenly begins to move that you start asking questions .
11 It 's only if they come up with different … ’
12 It 's only if , but
13 But it 's only if it 's materially out .
14 It 's only if there 's a sort of niggling problem that would tell the coordinator about and they would pass it to the police officers .
15 Erm , cos otherwise it 's er it 's only if you have multiple applications running .
16 There 's only if the person you 're talking to thinks you do n't care , well I mean they 're not you know they 're not going to think very much of you are they ?
17 If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President .
18 That 's only if you 're good , said Father Christmas . ’
19 And , it 's only if this committee decides to take a hand in pushing environmental issues forward , that they will actually come about , except , almost by accident .
20 No it 's cause it 's it 's it 's only if the police come they 'll they 'll move you on .
21 it 's only if you do English literature as well but I do n't .
22 Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ?
23 Cos the last race is at five o'clock I think , but I mean it 's only if we go couple of hours .
24 It 's only if it goes in and you 've got no angle
25 But that 's only if you are actually part of the union .
26 It 's only if you 've got the clutch right in .
27 It 's only if you do an emergency start and shoot off the road at high speed , which vans are n't capable of .
28 say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really
29 So it 's basically if they finish on the level points goal difference shall determine the final positions followed by the highest number of goals scored and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home .
30 It is enough if the dependent conditional ( 1 ) , or perhaps one of the variants ( 1a ) or ( lb ) , is true of the two things .
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