Sentence examples for If sheer from inspiring English sources

If sheer quantity is the measure -- 11 musicals, 6 plays -- Broadway is booming.

If sheer weight and bulk were not a deterrent, the €59 (£44) price tag for the first print of 5,000 copies surely will be.

If sheer, naked ambition has marked out the career of Jose Mourinho, who has reached this season's Champions' League final, then Hodgson admits that it has been markedly lacking from his work.

If sheer admiration, and consumer indulgence expressed at the bookstore and record breaking movie premiers (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Spider-Man) are any indication of where citizens place their hopes and dreams, then the foundation blocks of the Great American Church belong to DC and Marvel.

A. If sheer size poses systemic risk, then Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase or even Wal-Mart poses a systemic risk.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if we'd have Ovid's Metamorphoses or Virgil or Milton or Dante if sheer willpower weren't involved.

If Sheers's poetry has a flaw, it lies in his propensity to over-explicate at times.

If Sheers has set himself a formidable task in asking us to care about a merchant banker, he has a somewhat easier task with the likable Michael, an innocent thrust by circumstances into a form of grieving usually reserved for the old.

Unlike Elvis, most celebrities don't look as if they eat, let alone cook, but if the sheer number of star-powered cookbooks around is an indication, a lot of the famous are chow hounds, too.

As if by sheer magic, I find one.

Even if the sheer regularity of visits is taking its toll on some.