Example sentences of "if we [modal v] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And if we ca n't fully enjoy the place there 's not much point in keeping it .
2 It demeans politics if we ca n't occasionally have a laugh .
3 If we can not even face the present , of course we can not build the future .
4 If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country .
5 We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it .
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