How To Use Only if In A Sentence
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He comments that a patient might talk of a "shiner" whereas a doctor (holy of holies) would speak of a "periorbital ecchymosis," which is true only if you could imagine a doctor referring to cephalalgia instead of a headache or odontalgia instead of a toothache.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
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Experience can contribute to connoisseurship, but only if the consumer tastes with attention and an open mind.
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Many constitutions require that basic rights can be curtailed only if less onerous measures are not available.
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PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Lou, a senior defense official tells CNN that that consideration of using helicopters to rescue Americans would happen only if the Americans could not move over land to the seaport, which is the preferred option to get all the Americans out of Lebanon.
CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2006
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False perception can arise only if the nervous system has spontaneous activity independently of any causative external object.
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A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot.
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I didn't clean, so we hired a maid who said she would do it only if our house were exorcized.
A Country of Husbands
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Typical lab tests can take hours (if not days) to analyze, process, and confirm a specific biological agent, and that's only if the lab knows exactly what antigen it's looking for.
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He is an able builder and carpenter, but only if using the right stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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His tour came after Serbian President Boris Tadic said that he would join other leaders in the Brdo at Kranj castle, but only if Kosovo was represented by the United Nations and their officials sit at the table with nameplates Kosovo-UNMIK (UN Mission in Kosovo).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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We should integrate literacy into play only if it furthers a play theme in progress, and we should avoid literacy props that may distract children from make-believe.
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Most Labour MPs who quit the front bench will return only if elections are held.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only if the same association is shown by others and defies simple explanation should it be taken seriously.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Marlins claim they won't deal the N.L.'s home run leader, Mike Lowell, but we'll believe it only if he's still wearing teal on August 1.
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Typical lab tests can take hours (if not days) to analyze, process, and confirm a specific biological agent, and that's only if the lab knows exactly what antigen it's looking for.
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Most companies today provide cross-cultural training only if an employee will be living abroad as part of an assignment.
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She agrees to do so only if Ben will join her in exploring the wonders under the sea.
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Only if a teacher has given permission is a student allowed to leave the room.
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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty. Osho
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`Only if you say you'll coorie into me the way you do wi "Magnus.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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But property valuations matter only if a company makes its cash from trading its assets or is heavily indebted.
Times, Sunday Times
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More will come only if city halls scent a crisis.
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Do be aware that a lease will have important statutory rights only if it was originally granted for more than 21 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mankind has prospered from science, but prosperity will endure only if institutional innovation keeps apace of technological innovation.
The Prize in Economics 2009 - Presentation Speech
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But only if it isn't found grossly negligent for the gulf oil spill, which could double posttax oil-spill-related costs from the $28 billion estimate.
BP's Long Road Back
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But only if if they can avoid being hit by any further injuries to key players.
The Sun
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Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Roscosmos would be willing to build a new Soyuz space capsule solely for tourist flights to the space station, Mr. Davydov said, but only if an independent group helped fund the new capsule.
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Only if the military could recruit enough volunteers would the three-month service term become feasible.
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Only if it clips around my waist, I felt like saying.
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We should not assume that peaceful coexistence is possible only if all, or nearly all major nations adopt the same social behaviour.
A High Standard
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My life in the world is sustainable only if the world comes to be in me, only if there is a continuous interchange between the two.
Christianity Today
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a stimulus such as food is a reinforcer only if its presentation increases the frequency of a response in a type of associative conditioning known as operant conditioning.
Behaviorism
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The state occasionally tests for drugs before scheduled bouts but only if a fighter has a history of drug abuse.
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Gears are precision mechanisms only if quality is consistent from tooth to tooth.
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Consider this only if your boat is fully equipped with all the necessary navigation aids and safety equipment.
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That is, for him, a propositum is "sequentially relevant" if and only if it logically follows from the positum alone; it is "incompatibly relevant" if and only if its contradictory opposite follows from the positum alone; it is "irrelevant" if and only if it is neither sequentially nor incompatibly relevant.
Medieval Theories of Obligationes
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The pestering problem of ‘protected teachers’ can be tackled only if the unaided sector is put on a leash.
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Studies report that only about 10 percent of these patients develop biliary symptoms, leading to the wait-and-see policy of performing cholecystectomy only if the calculi become symptomatic.
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The political matrix will change only if those concerned with enhancing privacy make such protections a major part of their agenda.
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Only bays, chestnuts, or sorrels are accepted into the unit and that's only if they pass the training, vet, and farrier evaluations.
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Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty.
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These animals are thought to survive only if ice is confined to their body cavity and other extracellular spaces.
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But those claimed benefits would materialise only if the tax rate were set low enough and personal allowances set high enough.
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Only if treatment is offered to a population can the outcome be expected to reflect the generality of population based data.
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He says the data is a good guidepost only if they're considered alongside other economic indicators.
U.S. Monthly Employment Report Not The Final Word On Jobs
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You'll crawl onto that plane only if officialdom is feeling magnanimous and you're a good camper who jumps the hoops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then we establish a converse, called completeness, that an argument is valid only if it is derivable.
Classical Logic
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It would be another quarter of a century before scientists finally identified Carol’s condition she was suffering from phenylketonuria, or PKU, brain degeneration caused by inability in the newborn child to process a chemical called phenyl, a deficiency that can be treated only if detected in its early stages.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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We should therefore feel compelled to grant Joyce's premise that there is such a complete non-moral genealogy only if we have already given up on the idea of knowable moral truths.
Morality and Evolutionary Biology
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Use collets only if they have a collar and are inserted into the tool from both sides.
9. Tools
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Only if obstructive symptoms are significant would surgery be indicated, even in cases of systemic amyloidosis.
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Only if a whole new infrastructure of charging points is put in place.
Times, Sunday Times
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What I've been sleeping in for the past two years could be called a teddy, but only if it's understood that the word is not synonymous with a slinky negligee, but strictly a nod to women's nightwear worn during the first Roosevelt administration.
Meredith C. Carroll: The Whooping Cough of Aspen Fashion Week
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You'll crawl onto that plane only if officialdom is feeling magnanimous and you're a good camper who jumps the hoops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final sanction will be given after completion of the construction only if there are no deviations from the original plan.
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If, and only if, you use a third-party anti-virus program that is also anti-malware (the best ones are), you can also disable the Windows Defender service.
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My life in the world is sustainable only if the world comes to be in me, only if there is a continuous interchange between the two.
Christianity Today
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The only if was who got to him first: some religious bampot avenging the murder of a priest, or the hired hand of whoever set him up, in accordance with the second rule of assassination.
It's October, 1956.
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The two further assumptions are the following. (a) Truth-evaluable intentional contents with demonstrative elements that successfully refer are object-dependent, and (b) experiences are of the same mental kind only if they have the same truth-evaluable contents.
Petty Injuries
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The missiles can be fired only if the operator types in a six-digit code.
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But living animal was produced only if the sheep blastomer was taken from trophoblast, the structure giving rise to placenta and extraembryonic fetal membranes, and goat cells from inner mass of embrionic stem cells.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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But only if you use it regularly and practise a variety of the activities on offer.
The Sun
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The observable is conserved if and only if the equations of motion are invariant under the transformations generated by the corresponding [Hermitian] operator
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day
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And this worked out only if such an owner put his heart and soul into all facets of the business.
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You'll crawl onto that plane only if officialdom is feeling magnanimous and you're a good camper who jumps the hoops.
Times, Sunday Times
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It becomes an authentic spiritual experience only if it is totally free from selfish and mercenary interests on the part of those who facilitate it.
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They recognized that the country would revive only if it thoroughly disengaged from the chaos of the old regime.
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A prize that I will get if, and only if, I solve the secret riddle.
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Kant's categorical imperative test, for example, holds that universalizability is the distinguishing feature of correct moral judgments, and that a judgment is universalizable if and only if it can, without contradiction, be willed as a universal practical law
Impartiality
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Now only if danser were one of those words with different singular conjugations for indicative and subjunctive, then he would have to correct it again … ds says:
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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Is a pedimento vitiated if obtained by fraud, or only if it is obtained through forgery?
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The badger population can be sustained only if food is available to support it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do this only if you trust your wife or husband to behave responsibly!
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Only if some Super Bowl sponsor is giving away oat bran.
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Something defamatory is libellous only if it's untrue.
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A successful dialogue can be conducted only if we listen to each other with rapt attention so that we can understand each other.
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Pills, powders, caplets, tablets, tinctures, oils and herb formulas can aid good health, but only if they're supplemental to a good diet.
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This conclusion, however, is valid only if Searle is right in claiming that collective intentionality conforms to methodological solipsism.
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(S¬) vw (¬A) = 1 if and only if vw* (A) = 0, that is, ¬A is true at a world w if and only if A is false, not at w itself (as it happens with standard negation), but at its twin w*.
Impossible Worlds
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Such duty, however, is not absolute, and its breach is actionable only if it is wrongful, that is to say, without justification or excuse.
Law In The Health and Human Services
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The desired results can be achieved only if the male members of the family shed their attitudinal rigidity.
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Only 54 percent wear some sort of sunscreen during the summer, and 84 percent believe protection is necessary only if they intend to be outside ‘for a long period of time.’
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Women never say thank you when you are courteous and polite, only if you comment on their appearance.
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The officer's testimony is significant only if the entries can be demonstrated as being contemporary with the dates provided by the diary.
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However, his argument works only if the cooperative groups also had practices — such as monogamy and the sharing of food with other group members — that reduced the ability of their selfish members to outreproduce their more generous members.
The Selfless Gene
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Only if you are being checked for security when doing business at a bank or trying to purchase alchohol is when you should.
Arizona governor signs immigration bill
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Previously, scientific evidence was allowed only if it had gained the general acceptance of the scientific community.
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It discusses the theory advanced by John Rawls that authority is legitimate if and only if it acts in accord with principles the subjects agree to.
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You do that only if your mentality is strong.
Times, Sunday Times
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It makes sense to follow such teachings only if they cohere with the truths of modern science.
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And it would be possible only if communities attain self-sufficiency and do not have to transport goods needed for their needs from far off places.
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They are likely to do so only if the perceived benefits exceed the expected costs.
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This is the well-known criterion which says that a system of linear equations has a solution if and only if the rank of the matrix of the associated homogeneous system is equal to the rank of the augmented matrix of the system.
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Sarah Klein, a neighborhood resident, said that until the confusion was cleared up, she would leave the house only if she wore a baglike snood.
In Israel, a Ban on Indian Wigs; In Brooklyn, a Rush to Comply
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Tomorrow night, hinging on the field test, I may excuse you from the duties, but only if you pass.
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It would, of course, be easy enough to modify (EDR) 's definiens to read ˜y is not identical with x and, necessarily, x exists only if
Ontological Dependence
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Only if McConnell is bold enough to do this will we start to see real change in schools.
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Apparently, a fountain of oil happens these days only if something has gone horribly wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visitors can come to take a look, but only if they preregister and provide passport details ahead of their arrival.
Shalom Alaikum
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They recognized that the country would revive only if it thoroughly disengaged from the chaos of the old regime.
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Only if you were born and brought up unbeknown to the world in the darkness of deepest Dalby Forest, scratching a living from the land would you be truly a non-person.
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Finally, the court concluded contraband is dangerous only if there is a substantial probability the item will be used in a manner likely to cause death or serious injury; facilitate an escape or pose a threat to institutional safety or security.
NY Court of Appeals
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I wake up only if the school bell rings.
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Only if the kids want to throw a kegger this weekend for their pre-school friends.
Think Progress » Maryland Foster Agency Won’t Allow Muslim Mother To Foster A Child
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And if they could expect a pay day only if they won, that made them partners in an enterprise from which they expected to profit.
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It will be fun only if the process proves fruitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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A public body may take action only if Justified by law.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lawyer is paid only if he wins.
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First, the boats were designed to right themselves if they capsized, but only if correctly ballasted.
Rowing the ATLANTIC
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Only if you're installing wall sconces, or recessed overhead lights, will you need to do electrical work in a room to change the lighting.
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Banks usually trade at a discount to book value only if there is trouble ahead.
Times, Sunday Times
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A copyleft license blocks profiteers from copyrighting collaborative software by preemptively copyright-protecting it, and contractually allowing people to freely use and modify it only if they agree to pass on the freedoms given to them.
Five words shaping our future
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In that event, ˜Anything is P if and only if it is P²™ comes out true with respect to the actual world but not necessarily true.
Rigid Designators
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So, they are asking for more money, but the government is saying we will give it to you only if you do some really, really, tough cust cotting -- tough cost cutting -- I can't speak English this morning.
CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
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Ivor New, chairman of GroupCytek, a maker of measuring instruments in Farnham, Surrey, said the banks were falling over themselves to lend, but only if the company was prepared to offer up the entire value of the business as collateral.
CBI delegates ask Bob Diamond why banks won't lend to them
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Only if the machine malfunctions should there be these manual counts.
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Thyroid stimulating hormone, testosterone, and prolactin concentrations need be checked only if cycles are irregular or absent, suggesting anovulation, galactorrhoea, or symptoms of thyroid disorder.
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* Drinking soda through a straw limits cavities, but only if the straw is aimed pretty much straight into your throat.
Tuesday Link Dump
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He would grant complete artistic licence but only if they both agreed on a structured recording process.
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Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
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On the floor of the conference, “no swishing was allowed in public” and “a couple of local queens who sashayed up to one session were told politely but firmly to go home and come back only if they were properly dressed and behaved.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Choose dinners under 300 calories only if they're hearty, like a protein-heavy dish.
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Dehn had studied the squaring problem in 1903 and proved that a rectangle can be squared if and only if its sides are commensurable and that if it can be squared then there are infinitely many perfect squarings.
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A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years.
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The dogs were just like Olympic athletes - well trained and really happy only if they were pulling the sledge at a reasonable clip through the trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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A nonuniversity individual or organization may solicit university employees in nonworking areas only if at the time of such solicitation the employees are on nonworking time.
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In logic the word Iff means 'if and only if' – the biconditional.
What you think about the Iff card
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You can connect to that port only if your client application is running on the same machine and is connecting through the loopback address (localhost or 127.0.0.1).
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Only if we notice that a bird is unable to incubate the egg is it then put in an incubator.
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They recognized that the country would revive only if it thoroughly disengaged from the chaos of the old regime.
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You seem to be positing your argument on the assumption that Weldon v Neal is engaged if, but only if, the material facts had been pleaded in a different legal category as applied to them.
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It seems to often assume that power is coercive only if exercised by the State.
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Only if they're not commited sic 100% to winning the Race," Keoghan wrote, without naming names.
CBS Tweet Week: What Amazing Race Teams Get on Phil Keoghan's Nerves?
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Put simply, the computer responds in a need-to-know fashion during a database search, providing information only if the user conducting the search holds the required federal or legal clearances.
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We can hasten its collapse, but only if we are prepared to turn our intermittent campaigns into a sustained revolt.
THE AGE OF CONSENT
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After the observation mile it was a straight run home, only if the truth be told it was more of a crawl than anything else.
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A growing number of workers are put on short-term contracts which are renewed only if their work is up to scratch.
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Nara too pointed out that only if Japan, India and China could form an alliance, Asia could prove to be a force for peace.
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For example, spring ephemerals (plants that grow in the short period in spring before trees produce leaves and reduce the light) will only be found in early spring, and only if they can obtain enough light in the early spring.
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He can do all this and more, but only if he knows the truth and is not shielded behind a cocoon of manufactured perceptions.
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So also the following passage which, referring to this interior Self, forming as it were the centre of the peripherical interaction of the objects and senses, sums up as follows, 'He is my Self, thus let it be known;' a summing up which is appropriate only if prâ/n/a is meant to denote not some outward existence, but the interior Self.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
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He is an able builder and carpenter, but only if using the right stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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The potty decree says they can play footie on jail premises only if they are properly supervised.
The Sun
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At the moment police can pull over motorists on suspicion of drug-driving, but can arrest them only if they fail relatively imprecise physical and mental impairment tests.
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But his lawyers will argue that Britain should extradite him only if the alleged conduct constitutes an offence here.
Times, Sunday Times
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But follow only if ye be kittehs of valer, fer teh entrance to dis cave is garded by ah kreetshur sew foul, sew crool dat no kitteh yet has fawt wit it an lived!
From the Depths… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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If A-Rod does pass Bonds, people will be celebrating all over the country -- but only if the 763rd "dinger" is hit on July 4, because people will be celebrating Independence Day anyway and won't give a hoot about one tainted player passing another.
Dave Astor: When A-Rod's Fan Club Meets, the Room Is Empty
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But the luxury of having all the right features comes only if you're so entrenched in the market that you can afford the R&D to do that.
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Manuscripts, photographs, and other submitted material can be acknowledged or returned only if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
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The Home Secretary will release prisoners only if he considers it is safe to do so.
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As pointed out by Progovac, it predicts that adjuncts should be extractable from, say, a relative clause only if it contains a long-distance reflexive - a prediction that is not borne out.
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All this makes a complex pattern, but complex in therapy only if one does not know the source of aberration.
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Quantum mechanics contradicts the notion of real only if one takes a naive, simplistic view of reality.
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Only if it's not long distance.
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If the hatchlings ingest bits of eggshell or bury themselves in soil containing ice crystals, they will freeze at relatively high temperatures and survive only if subsequent temperatures do not go too low.
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Only if you think that “regulate” is a term interchangeable with “to take over completely”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Is the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Unconstitutional?”
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A: I think that is possible only if Budget also disappoints, which is a possibility.
Moneycontrol Top Headlines
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Only if a 70-year-old driver indicated on their application form they had a problem with their health would they be required to take a medical exam.
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Only if we allow – no, require, Detroit to secede from the U.S.
Matthew Yglesias » Turning Detroit Around
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President Kennedy assured Wallace that federal troops would be used only if the state abdicated its responsibilities.
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Holes appear only if a finite perturbation is applied to the layer for accelerations a above 10g.
Faraday's Wave Garden
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The notion of fact is apt to cause difficulties only if facts are treated as some special species of existences.
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It appears the Ministry men can have their cake and eat it ... but only if we let them.
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They were also likely to be less tolerant of corrupt behaviour, such as fiddling expenses, but only if such fiddles were not the norm in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we combine these two assumptions, it can be assumed that everything performs its function only if it has the corresponding excellence and not evil.
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A more concentrated solution may be used only if quinupristin/dalfopristin is administered through a central line.
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We can win it only if we do not force our forces to fight in a legal fog, constantly speculating and litigating piecemeal about what the law might be.
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Only if they succeed in their aims will the whole project be deemed worthwhile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local bills come before Parliament only if a parliamentarian is willing to sponsor them.
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It is people like Dawkins who are the new genetic mutations which will spread only if they have superior survival value.
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Only if the equitable lease prevailed would the landlord's action in distraining be proper.
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Beef, chicken, lamb and turkey meat is acceptable only if the animals are slaughtered according to Islamic law.
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I also suppose it would be sorta ok if private banks wanted to engage in fractional reserve banking but only if there was a big notice in BIG BIG letters in the written contract explaining the risks.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Fed Stifling Recovery?
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There could be Christmas bonuses only if the set income parameters were exceeded.
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In any democracy, a government can commit its people to certain bloodshed only if it believes it has their support.
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Dexamethasone therapy should be continued following test results only if gram-positive diplococci are found in the CSF Gram stain, or if cultures reveal Streptococcus pneumoniae.
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Oliver Perez, but only if he will accept a three-year deal or less … if dempster is being offered a four-year, $50 million deal, which he's going to turn down, at least for now, and a guy like
Comments for MetsBlog.com
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Cases were included in the study only if a microvascular repair of artery and vein was required for the thumb to survive.
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It will be fun only if the process proves fruitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only if Millicent finds the query letter compelling will she read any of the attached materials at all, which has even more drawbacks for the querier than might at first be apparent.
Author! Author! » 2010 » September
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Only if the benefit withdrawal rate exceeded 100 percent would the individual actually be worse off under such a proposal.
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Monday's rallies would be important only if they are a harbinger of much bigger and more confrontational demonstrations down the road.
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Eventually, the new Works Minister and his officials will win hearts and minds in sceptical Caparo only if the flood waters are actually contained within the concrete cylinders.
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These symptoms supervene, not only if ptisan be administered unseasonably, but still more if any other food or drink worse than ptisan be given.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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Only if that fails will they try biologics, newer treatments that include monoclonal antibodies such as infliximab (Remicade).
Medlogs - Recent stories
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Germany and Spain have let it be known that they will participate only if Britain does.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Only if some Super Bowl sponsor is giving away oat bran.
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An eclipse occurs only if the Moon crosses the ecliptic when very close to either conjunction or opposition, respectively producing solar and lunar eclipses.
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You're gonna be famous, but only if you jump over everybody and scratch their eyes out.
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Only if hostility and aggression can be express their unfriendliness and aggression in constructive activity and peaceful competition, will the human race be able to remain and develop.
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I can see both sides the of the coin, to know, to not know, but in the end I came down on the side of forewarned is forearmed – but only if both parents agree on what they would do if they get a positive.
No Matter What | Her Bad Mother
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If textile is a part of your artifact (like in a wall hanging or festoons), or the clothing of dolls, wash them only if you think that they will not run colour.
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Only if these conditions are fulfilled can the application proceed to the next stage.
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In this formulation of the argument it is clear that locality-separability conflicts with the eigenvalue-eigenstate link, which holds that a quantity of a system has an eigenvalue if and only if the state of the system is an eigenstate of that quantity with that eigenvalue (or a mixture of such eigenstates).
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in Quantum Theory
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They avoid trouble at all times and only if they are cornered or pestered will they bite at their attackers.
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Yet according to Mormon doctrine, families are awarded with empyreal togetherness only if every member ‘behaves.’
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Tuberculosis in the elderly is a disease to be feared only if it is undiagnosed and untreated.
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We will cover you for loss or paralysis of limbs... but only if TWO are affected.
The Sun
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A fantail pigeon will probably mate only if it catches the eye of the breeder; a wild pigeon will not mate unless it withstands the struggle for existence long enough to reach maturity.