Sentence examples for lost if only from inspiring English sources
Of various such incidents, the gravest was one in which O'Neill unwittingly lost, if only temporarily and with no one else seeing it, a top-secret FBI file.
Bradlee wanted to believe Cooke's résumé, and he wanted to believe her story; he had lost, if only for a moment, his instinct for skepticism, his bullshit meter.
I always felt it was my job to get lost, if only to discover, once again, how a garden so wild at the edges could also hide so much hospitality.
Land cover patterns vary considerably at such a fine-scale, so that a lot of information is lost if only medium resolution satellite images are used.
Our group at the Imperial College have previously shown experimentally that the T2 distribution provides valuable information about wettability and overall fluid distribution within the pore-space, which is lost if only a single value from the T2 distribution is considered [Al-Mahrooqi, S.H., Grattoni, C.A., Moss, A.K., Jing, X.D., 2003.
This is very important because corrected p-values (especially with Bonferroni) will always be less significant than the raw ones, so some of the significant results could be "lost" if only corrected p-values were reported.
Reporters were standing and rooting for the swaggering millionaires to lose, if only because it would make a tremendous story.
Last week, as he worked the campaign trail, supporters in his New Democracy party were still mystified as to why he had called a ballot he was bound to lose – if only because of his insistence that things will get worse before they get better.
It's a battle the broadcasters should lose, if only for the disingenuousness of their arguments, and that in fact seems to be what is occurring.
In the 2010 elections, more than half of its constituencies elected winners who did not win a majority of the vote and may well have lost if paired only against their top opponent.
The second and third steps in the search strategy were directed at identifying In-Process articles included in the database in the six months prior to the search, which would be lost if using only the first step in the strategy.
