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 is enough if the dependent conditional ( 1 ) , or perhaps one of the variants ( 1a ) or ( lb ) , is true of the two things . |
| 7 | It is enough if there be just and reasonable grounds for apprehending that unless payment be made an unlawful and injurious course will be taken by the defendant in violation of the plaintiffs ' actual rights . |
| 8 | Whereas the essence of the previous law was that the threat was required to cause the breach of the peace , now it is enough if the conduct causes a person to believe that there will be violence , which might include continued violence if the scuffle is already in progress when the witness appears on the scene . |
| 9 | It is enough if the defendant has used threatening , abusive or insulting language or conduct such that it is likely that violence will be provoked . |
| 10 | Rather , the courts have held that it is enough if the constable has a power to act as he does , and that he is not acting illegally in the exercise of that power at the time of the act complained of . |
| 11 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 12 | ‘ It is only if you pretend and try to sweep it under the carpet that you get a bigoted response , ’ Mr Purton added after the vote . |
| 13 | It is only if you kneel down and call him to you that will he come slowly for his apology . |
| 14 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 15 | It is only if your Mum or Dad has it , that you may possible have it when you grown up , whether you are a boy or a girl . |
| 16 | The implications of this failure are very far-reaching because , it is only if market forces can be counted on to produce good , or even tolerable , results that the abdication from all responsibility for strategic policy-making can for a moment be justified . |
| 17 | A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net . |
| 18 | It is only if all these conditions are met that the adult is likely to respond appropriately ( see acts performed by children 's first words , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 19 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 20 | It is only if we are in the grip of a mistaken conception of truth that the mere possibility of a belief being mistaken carries with it the threat of scepticism ; it is an indication that the sceptic 's conception of truth is not ours that his arguments do not prompt an epistemic crisis . |
| 21 | It is only if we can read that record that we can discover some very important biological characteristics of human beings , since ( to repeat an earlier point ) it is through convention , convention that has a history , that human nature is expressed . |
| 22 | It seems or it seemed to us till lately — a natural thing that love ( under certain conditions ) should be regarded as a noble and ennobling passion : it is only if we imagine ourselves trying to explain this doctrine to Aristotle , Virgil , St Paul , or the author of Beomuy , that we become aware how far from natural it is . |
| 23 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 24 | It is only if the prosecution amounts to an abuse of the process of the court and is oppressive and vexatious that the judge has the power to intervene . |
| 25 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of [ England ] rather than [ Australia ] shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 26 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of country B rather than country A shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 27 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |
| 28 | That is , there is only if you feel there 's one . ’ |
| 29 | It is only if the universe is in this no-boundary state that the laws of science , on their own , determine the probabilities of each possible history . |
| 30 | This is fortunate because it is only if the value of the cosmological constant is very small that the universe would be suitable for beings like us . |