Example sentences of "only if it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only if it 's damaged in the normal course of play , ’ said Stevie . |
| 2 | Only if it is believed that independence is a function of employment income can the idea of increased dependency be automatically supported . |
| 3 | ( A company is normally considered to be ‘ resident ’ only if it is incorporated in the UK , the Channel Islands , the Isle of Man or the Irish Republic and has its head office and place of central management in one of these jurisdictions . ) |
| 4 | An expert system using the expertise in fault diagnosis ( BM or RTF ) preventive/predictive maintenance ( PM or CM ) , reliability centred maintenance ( RCM ) and linked to , or embedding , a CMMS would represent the ‘ complete ’ solution only if it is integrated with Operations Systems ( ie Operations Planning/Scheduling , JIT and Inventory Control Systems , etc . ) |
| 5 | This entails , as was pointed out above , that disobedience to a law is justified only if it is justified by an existing legal doctrine to that effect . |
| 6 | This thought can be entertained only if it is accepted that the universe is eternal and timeless , and the theory of a once only chance association of circumstances causing life , be abandoned . |
| 7 | This is because an anticipatory repudiation terminates a contract only if it is accepted by the innocent party , Fercometal S.a.r.l. v. Mediterra-nean Shipping Co. ( 1988 H.L. ) . |
| 8 | The very concept of liberation makes sense only if it is viewed against the backdrop of unjust oppression , and while the notion of unjust oppression no doubt assumes many guises , it is incomprehensible to me how we might understand it apart from the idea of the violation of basic moral rights . |
| 9 | A silkworm — actually the caterpillar of the silk moth — will spin the cocoon that can yield an astonishing 800 metres of pure silk only if it is fed leaves from the white mulberry tree . |
| 10 | I am not against physical punishment if it is needed , but only if it is called for . |
| 11 | The doctrine of consideration provides that a promise will bind the promisor only if it is given as the price for another 's promise or as the price for an action which involves a detriment to the promisee . |
| 12 | To its lenders and investors , the firm has a value only if it is earning more than its cost of capital . |
| 13 | This can be achieved only if it is recognised that research is essential in surgical practice and should be encouraged but , equally , that the person concerned must learn to operate . |
| 14 | But the Belfast and Edinburgh situations are abnormal and irregular only if it is assumed that the patterns revealed in the New York City study are the normal and regular ones , and that Labov 's findings on the structure of that speech community are universally applicable . |
| 15 | There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something . |
| 16 | It seems then that a Romalpa clause will , if properly worded , work in the case of unmixed goods and the proceeds of sale of unmixed goods , but that in the case of mixed goods ( and their proceeds of sale ) will work only if it is registered as a charge created by the buying company . |
| 17 | A guarantee is of value only if it is honoured . |
| 18 | Only if it is made strange or different do we see it for what it really is . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 21 | Mr Pavlov said that the anti-crisis programme will work only if it is backed by all 15 republics . |
| 22 | The Chinese consider the clenched fist as a weak and vulnerable weapon , to be used rarely and only if it is aimed at a soft part of the body . |
| 23 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |
| 24 | Again , this makes sense only if it is allowed that Kimon had , for several years already , had his rivals : Pericles had prosecuted him for bribery , though the charge was withdrawn . |
| 25 | When dialect is a matter of different words being used , naturally it will be understood only if it is known previously . |
| 26 | Only if it is contained as LATEST will it be approved again and its issue number increased . |
| 27 | Only if it is contained as Latest will it be approved again and its issue number increased . |
| 28 | According to section 15 of the 1982 Act , if the union is sued for inducing breach of or interfering with contract , or for intimidation by threats to interfere with contract , or for conspiracy to commit these torts , then the act in question shall be taken to have been done by the union only if it was authorised or endorsed by a ‘ responsible person , ’ which means the principal executive committee , any person authorised by the rules to endorse acts of the kind in question , the president or general secretary , any other employed official , or any committee to which an employed official reports , but an act by an official or a committee to which he reports shall not be taken as authorised or endorsed if the official or committee was prevented from authorising or endorsing the act by union rules or if the act has been repudiated by the president or general secretary . |
| 29 | One might ( perhaps ) be able to teach a dolphin to peel a banana , but only if it was incorporated into a sequence of actions required to achieve some goal considered meaningful to the mind of the dolphin — food , affection , play or whatever ! |
| 30 | Another close relative , acetylsalicylic acid , i.e. aspirin , was active only if it was broken down to release salicylic acid . |