Example sentences of "[adj] if [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 2 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 3 | In an account based on the Sanford-Garrod framework , we take it that plural reference is possible if more than one atomic entity is mapped into a single role-slot in an elicited representation . |
| 4 | I was n't sure if there or well there may be so whatever reasons it just went out the window . |
| 5 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 6 | Abnormal hypoxaemic episodes were considered present if more than three desaturations to <=80%; for >=54; seconds with apnoeic pauses occurred in a 12 hour hospital recording ( 95th percentile in healthy infants ) or if there was any desaturation to <=80%; for >=4; seconds which was unassociated with an apnoeic pause — that is , when the onset of desaturation began >12 seconds after the onset of any pause . |
| 7 | Prince 's Youth Business Trust awards grants up to £1,500 although more may be available if more than one person is involved . |
| 8 | An efficient procedure , essential if more than one subject is to be discussed , is to circulate an agenda giving the date , time , venue , subjects and a list of those attending . |
| 9 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 10 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 11 | It 's very rare if ever that one finds a continuing document of a place and people of a particular space maintained over that length of time . |
| 12 | I will be surprised if more than two or three players will be able to perform to the standard required in a 42-match programme , so it is essential we have a strong squad . ’ |
| 13 | This is nearer realization than it was in the late 1980s if only because the practice and principles of GRIDS , together with further movements towards total self-evaluation , have removed some of each party 's defensiveness . |