Example sentences of "[subord] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4.8 THE BARE INFINITIVE AFTER RATHER THAN AND SOONER THAN |
| 2 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 3 | When , if and similarly if Hence which is at and at and reaches a maximum of unity in between at , as shown in figure 12.3 . |
| 4 | This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs . |
| 5 | Thus the QLF structure above survives if and only if the constraints on the third argument of pick-up2 and on the only argument of jack2 are consistent . |
| 6 | Thus FRF′R ’ is not normally the identity ; it is the identity , if and only if FR=RF , that is , F and R commute . |
| 7 | A semantic net may be formally represented as a directed , labeled graph with nodes and links where The predicate is true , if and only if and are connected by a path of labels . |
| 8 | So d ( k , r ) = 1 if and only if some word in the dictionary contains the character a(k) in position i and a(r) in position j , where a is the alphabet . |
| 9 | If and only if it does , that route is followed , which means counting how many of the 26 bits are set up to and including the required one , to establish which member of the pointer array to follow to the next level in the tree . |
| 10 | We are inclined to think that the grammar of the linguistic expression is some sort of consequence of the process being of a certain kind ; for example , that ‘ I remember X-ing ’ is true if and only if I X-ed because remembering is a process in which one somehow sees into the past . |
| 11 | Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief . |
| 12 | And let us say that the meaning of a statement is valuational if and only if there is a certain attitude to which it is related just as a cognitive statement is related to a certain belief . |
| 13 | One speaks with linguistic propriety and sincerity when saying ‘ it will rain this afternoon ’ if and only if one believes it will ; the truth of the matter has nothing to do with it . |
| 14 | Threatening co-ordination difficulties can arise if and only if the system 's managers can not resolve the displacement of crises because of serious dysfunctions in the economy or some sort of collapse in the cultural — ideological system . |
| 15 | The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ? |
| 16 | Equally witches are real if and only if there are criteria for identifying witches . |
| 17 | For instance , it would let International Relations theories refer to ‘ the international system ’ if and only if there is enough of a set of rules ( explicit , tacit , or even perhaps latent ) which international actors share and follow . |
| 18 | Bar-Hillel [ 1967 ] argues for the superiority of meaning postulates over semantic markers due to their ability to represent arguments of lexical items , which are essential for expressing the relation between the meanings of words like ’ buy ’ and ’ sell ’ : for any x , y , z ( x sells y to z if and only if z buys y from x ) |
| 19 | If we know unc and unc we say " A if and only if B " , an assertion we write briefly as unc or A iff B. Technically all definitions should be in " iff " form . |
| 20 | Together the analogues of 1.4.10 and 1.3.7 show that , in Q[x] , an element is prime if and only if it is irreducible . |
| 21 | The symbol " = " yields another relation on Z , two integers being related this time if and only if they are equal . |
| 22 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 23 | I have permitted myself throughout the useful abbreviation ‘ iff ’ for ‘ if and only if ’ . |
| 24 | The standard account of knowledge , around which all recent work has been done , defines knowledge as justified true belief ; it holds that a knows that p if and only if |
| 25 | A belief is incorrigible if and only if no one could ever be in a position to correct it . |
| 26 | A belief is indubitable if and only if no one could ever have a reason to doubt it . |
| 27 | This makes sense if and only if these committees and interfaces produce more innovation and more efficient innovation than the alternatives . |
| 28 | That statement of Rabbit 's will be true ( as our first truism about truth tells us ) if and only if there really is honey still for tea . |
| 29 | As before , the top layer consists of a single node which fires if and only if all nodes in layer 2 do not fire . |
| 30 | A person is entitled to act for the protection of livestock if either the livestock or the land on which it is belongs to him or to any person under whose express or implied authority he is acting ; and he is deemed to be acting for their protection if and only if , either : |