But John Motson's vote for Manchester United to be champions was made on the proviso that, as is widely expected, manager Louis van Gaal makes some significant signings before the transfer window closes on 1 September.
The bank asks borrowers to form a group of five people, who are lent money on the proviso that the whole group make the repayments.
If he was swayed, it came with a proviso, "O.K., but you've got to make the plays".
Her simple proviso was that manners consist of trying to make the world a pleasanter place to live.
Julie Zimmerman, a professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, notes that Appalachian folk sometimes make appointments with the proviso that "I'll be there, God willing and the creek don't rise".Another problem is that the region's mineral wealth has corrupted local politics.
Once he's got that off his chest, Kimball grudgingly provides a few tips for making stock, with the proviso that they "would deeply offend Escoffier," because he suggests that you "just throw it together, higgledy-piggledy".
Equally, it is a common occurrence in some institutional settings where past decisions are followed for a decision to be made subject to the proviso that it is 'not setting a precedent' for the future.
He made a proviso: he and his family could go on living there rent-free and forever.
If at the next election a different lot of people with different ideas win a majority of the votes, the first lot will stand down and accept the changes the second lot make, subject to the same proviso.
Even of Woody Allen, who never really went away, but who was considered definitively, finally to have made a return to form with Blue Jasmine (with the proviso that it was still nowhere near as good as Annie Hall).
