Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I going to weight of of criteria first of all , I think this very great weight should be applied to this criterion because obviously if you can not serve the new settlement satisfactorily then it should n't be developed in that location . |
| 2 | Those accountants were to seek to approve the statement or agree on an adjusted version , and only if they could not agree would the matter then be referred to an expert . |
| 3 | Take her to Nicosia , but only if you will not do her the service of remaining here , in this town , at her side . ’ |
| 4 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 5 | Most of us have a tendency to underrate our own skills and experience , especially if we can not put a definite name to them . |
| 6 | It can sometimes be difficult to determine whether the patient is ill-tempered and perhaps foulmouthed towards you because of the immediate effects of his illness and the frustration he feels , especially if he can not speak normally , or whether it is part of a personality change which is going to last indefinitely . |
| 7 | This form is not to be recommended to a landlord , because if his power is restricted to a power to determine for certain specified purposes , he may lose the power altogether if he can not establish the purpose at the crucial date . |
| 8 | ‘ I ask myself every hour now if we might not have held him and still drawn off well enough if I had but kept a better watch on the road to Shrewsbury . |
| 9 | One 's mind is occupied so much when one is young , but I wonder now if I could not have thought more about Beatrice . |
| 10 | At that time they were faced with legal fees of £3,000 if they sued the surveyor , and the risk of losing this as well if they could not prove the surveyor 's negligence in law . |
| 11 | Most publications will give you a number to ring even if they will not give an address , and once you have spoken to the potential recipients you should have no trouble in getting addresses — and a convenient time — to deliver . |
| 12 | These cortical consequences of social evolution provide the basis for the acquisition of some sort of superego , even if they can not ensure that it is a rational , mature and adaptive one . |
| 13 | If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 14 | All fish can detect the presence of objects near them even if they can not see them . |
| 15 | This could apply to almost all of the play 's characters — for even if they can not live up to their ideals , at least they have some . |
| 16 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 17 | After a pause for thought she told Dad that he must go and ask the Captain if he could let them have some cups and saucers and whatever else was available , even if they could not have the hall . |
| 18 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 19 | Alex and I were convinced that even if we would not discover new superconductivity materials , our work on the metal oxides would yield very interesting results . ’ |
| 20 | But even if we can not harness the emission from these primordial black holes , what are our chances of observing them ? |
| 21 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 22 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 23 | Even if we can not understand the words of a foreign language , at least our minds are all human such that communication of meaning — human meaning — can take place . |
| 24 | The rhythms and tones of a public speaker , for instance , can help pupils to appreciate his techniques of rousing an audience , even if we can not understand the words . |
| 25 | These impressive alterations probably represent an important event in the development of the site , even if we can not define precisely what preceded it , how widespread it was and why it happened . |
| 26 | Even if we can not get at ‘ the truth itself ’ and ‘ be admitted into the very inner shrines of nature ’ , we can at least ‘ glimpse … some slight image of it ’ , and ‘ live among certain of the outer altars ’ . |
| 27 | We can find justifying arguments for its ethical contents , even if we could not come to them on our own . |
| 28 | Notwithstanding , the firm has backed all the way , and has continued to work for Bell Lawrie , even if he can not give advice to clients . |
| 29 | At least he is father to the wish , even if he can not guarantee its achievement . |
| 30 | If you have a wide range of social activities , the patient may be able to join in some of them with you , even if he can not resume his former independent interests . |