Example sentences of "is only if " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | It is only if you kneel down and call him to you that will he come slowly for his apology . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | That is , there is only if you feel there 's one . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information . |
| 21 | The prevailing value system suggests that it is only if you have paid in full for what you receive that you fully deserve to have it . |
| 22 | It is only if the misleading price indication is given in the course of a business that an offence is committed . |
| 23 | For us the customers , it will mean higher fares and fewer services as unprofitable and social services are cut and this is only if we are left a train service at all . |
| 24 | That is only if stage one of the Labour party 's proposals are implemented ; it does not take into account the effect of stage two . |
| 25 | It is only if we work together , with goodwill , that we shall come anywhere near that journey 's end . |
| 26 | It is only if the existing and permitted uses of the land are so seriously affected as to render the land incapable of reasonably beneficial use that the owner can take advantage of the purchase notice procedure . |