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Example sentences for "provided that"

  • The reader will remember that my mistress had promised to pardon my infidelities, provided that I confessed them.

  • There is no harm in being a baseball enthusiast, provided that we do not allow it to interfere with our work or allow our desire to witness games to take the place of systematic exercise for ourselves.

  • Flat-bottom boats make the best type for fishing, provided that we do not have to row them far or if the place where we use them is not subject to sudden squalls or rough water.

  • I regarded any policy as the right one, which arrived at a prompt conclusion of peace, provided that we did not make any confession of weakness by ourselves initiating fresh offers of peace.

  • It is not yet possible to say when Congress will ask for the Lusitania documents, but it will probably be in a few weeks' time, provided that no diplomatic understanding can be reached meanwhile.

  • Provided that I pay you well, quoth Panurge.

  • Defn: Provided that; on condition that; in case that; if.

  • They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense.

  • Provided that it can find a convenient place for excavating its nest, other considerations are omitted.

  • So the old bird sallies forth to scour the districts least frequented by man, and makes every living thing its prey, provided that by force or cunning it can overpower it.

  • Owing to this sociability of character they are easily entrapped, provided that one of their own species be employed as a decoy bird.

  • This ascendancy of inclinations, however, does not prevent man from being master in his own domain, provided that he knows how to make use of his power.

  • This proposition is in part revealed, and should be admitted without difficulty, provided that free will be understood properly, according to the explanation I have given.

  • But when these objections are made against revealed faith it is enough that one be able to repel them, provided that one do so in a submissive and zealous spirit, with intent to sustain and exalt the glory of God.

  • Expressions like except and unless are equally conditional with words like if and provided that, since they are equivalent to if--not.

  • In this sense the Australian (provided that it has altered least, and that it retain the greatest number of the old inflections) will be the older tongue of the two.

  • It provided that on one-tenth of the local government electors in any division making the request in writing, a poll shall be taken as to whether all public-houses be closed there, or whether there shall be Sunday closing.

  • Where the proposal for reduction is successful, the committee shall carry out such reduction as it may think fit, provided that it does not exceed one-quarter of the total number of public-houses.

  • Yes, provided that I find favour in his eyes.

  • If he had taken the whole world, he could not have done one whit worse, provided that he left alive and sound that prey whom he now leads away.

  • Provided that mankind in general agreed to adopt such a goal, it could then impose a moral law upon itself, a law which would, at all events, be imposed by their own free will.

  • People are indulgent towards a man's moral weaknesses, and in this connection they use a coarse sieve, provided that he always professes to hold the most strict moral theories.

  • To put the matter more accurately, their rights can only relate to what they imagine to be in our power, provided that it is something that we ourselves consider as being in our power.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anatomical studies; common measure; dwell upon; eight reals; flying squirrel; good bread; mattered little; navigable rivers; other days; provided always; provided for; provided only; provided that; provided they; provided with; royal governor; seed should; several hours; stone from; such that; superheated steam; synovial membrane; thee alone; this committee; travelled over; while waiting