Example sentences of "[adv] if [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd come down and see you all if ever invited . |
| 2 | ON THE Saturday night U2 played in Cork , Ireland 's second city and a place naturally if infrequently served with mainland rock acts . |
| 3 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |
| 4 | Socially , politically and legally there was a very large difference between the American plains , largely unoccupied except by hunting Indian tribes , and the European ones , long if thinly settled by an agricultural population ; between the free farmer-settlers of the New World and the serf peasants of the Old , between the forms of peasant liberation after 1848 in Hungary and those after 1861 in Russia , between the large ranchers or estate owners of Argentina and the noble landlords and gentry of eastern Europe , between the legal systems , the administration , the land policies of the various states involved . |
| 5 | The article fails to emphasise the two most important tenets of safe prescribing of aminoglycosides — namely , that they should be used only if clinically justified and that they should be stopped as soon as the patient 's condition permits . |
| 6 | To shed surplus weight with the F-Plan , allow yourself a maximum of 1,500 calories a day and a minimum of 1,000 calories ( or less only if medically supervised ) a day . |
| 7 | Despite being larger , bombs made from civil plutonium will have low , unpredictable yields , especially if inexpertly designed and assembled . |
| 8 | There are risks involved in vaccinations , and the vaccination itself may have harmful effects , especially if incorrectly given . |
| 9 | But flexibility of the VME standard does have its advantages especially if previously designed systems were based on it . |
| 10 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 11 | Especially if only goes in advertising section . |
| 12 | Analysing the moral status of a whole society calls for clear thinking and a certain coolness of mind , elements conspicuously absent from most of the pronouncements of public figures in recent weeks , aptly if unintentionally encapsulated by the Prime Minister himself when he exhorted us all to try to understand less . |
| 13 | Gide was , at least at that time , the sexual tourist of which Said and others have written , his opportunity to come and go enhanced by what is aptly if euphemistically called independent means . |
| 14 | The interest provision should in fact interrelate with the " period of grace " provision and a suggested formula is 2 per cent above base lending rate if payment is not made within 14 days after becoming due or 3 per cent above if not made within 21 days . |
| 15 | There are even moves to make commercial litigation more client-friendly , to hold on to the business that 's dribbling away southwards if not to attract more in . |
| 16 | It is some years since it became generally if reluctantly accepted that sport and politics can not be separated . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not our crisis , it is the crisis of capitalism , ’ he had successfully if unconstructively assured the 1930 Labour Party Conference . |
| 18 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 19 | In such dances physical contact between lovers rarely if ever takes place . |
| 20 | Dependent conditionals , secondly , are not to be identified with the " material conditionals " of truth-functional logic , which rarely if ever turn up in ordinary language . |
| 21 | This moment is very private and is rarely if ever seen by outsiders , not even glimpsed through a window . |
| 22 | The barbotine technique allowed the potters to display these with a fluid eloquence , although the addition of triple tails of imaginative and flamboyant form clearly shows that these creatures were rarely if ever seen by the potters , or the artists who provided their models . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I have rarely if ever met a prison administrator , who does not subscribe to the doctrine that work for prisoners is the best training for life after release , and that it is also the best mechanism for running a humane and tidy prison . |
| 25 | Even when assemblies rarely if ever met and capitularies were no longer read , the idea of the realm survived in myth , symbol and tradition . |
| 26 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect . |
| 28 | This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects . |
| 29 | Perhaps this is the reason why we rarely if ever find a prayer in the New Testament addressed to the Spirit . |
| 30 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |