Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the same reasons , a person who has HIV infection should inform their GP of this only if it becomes relevant for diagnosis or treatment . |
| 2 | Snake venom is usually clear yellow and is dangerous only if it gets into the bloodstream . |
| 3 | He believes that Uralmash has a future only if it shrinks to a fraction of its present size and concentrates on making machinery that is likely to be in big demand , such as small bulldozers . |
| 4 | If after a bite or sting the conscious level is impaired or if swelling is severe and rapid especially if it affects the mouth and throat or if breathing becomes difficult . |
| 5 | More practical guidance , advice and support in those areas would be valuable particularly if it came from within librarianship rather than management science generally . |
| 6 | The pure flame of radical Christianity , we might say with the example of the Titfords before us , would be lucky indeed if it burned brightly for as many as three generations . |
| 7 | Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him . |
| 8 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 9 | You see a young man in a doorway sharpening his fingernails with a razor-blade , perhaps a common Neapolitan pastime , and useful too if it helps winkle those stray bits of salami from between your teeth . |
| 10 | On the other hand we all know that any social and political change — call it revolution or not , it does n't really matter — is meaningful only if it builds new institutions . |
| 11 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 12 | It er it 'd be handy actually if it generated an error when it did that . |
| 13 | You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process . |
| 15 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 16 | There is the Government 's view , which seems to see a large market as an end in itself , and there is the view expressed by my right hon. Friend , which sees a large market as successful only if it improves the quality of life of our citizens . |
| 17 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |
| 18 | On those assumptions the state can be neutral only if it creates conditions of equal opportunities for people to choose any conception of the good , with an equal prospect of realizing it . |
| 19 | that 's right , I mean she 's , she 's took some money , or taken some money if , I mean she 'll be home twelve o'clock if it do n't suit her like |
| 20 | : Performance and Fitness for Role ( FFR ) — Almost every software licence , constructed in California and sold in Europe , states that no application is guaranteed to do anything , worse still if it does n't perform it 's almost your fault for buying it ! |
| 21 | General Leclerc , as a soldier , was not , at least not to begin with , and believed not only that the reconquest of Tonkin , even in part , was impossible but that a negotiated settlement was essential even if it conceded independence . |
| 22 | It would n't be disastrous even if it gave out in mid-field , he adds . |
| 23 | A building lease for a term of more than forty years , where the lessor is not a public body , is freely assignable even if it contains a qualified covenant against alienation ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 , s19(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's very difficult to do because if you are n't careful you just write down a series of platitudes , but I think that a statement of aims and beliefs is very necessary even if it does look platitudinous . ’ |
| 25 | Curiously , the clause in Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes was almost certainly a penalty and unenforceable even if it had been properly incorporated ( see paragraph 14–13 below ) . |
| 26 | Hence , to the extent that consent is justified non-instrumentally as a constitutive element in a relationship between a citizen and his society , it is valid only if it exists between a citizen and a reasonably just society . |
| 27 | I know she 's naughty anyway if it 's recorded , that 's her tackled . |