Example sentences of "[verb] if [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people have not been indoctrinated into religious faith but into a questioning or ignoring of religion as basically superseded if not actually false . |
| 2 | Every castle and site of consequence has its guide book , and many of these are well written if not actually comprehensive . |
| 3 | In the View from the Hotel Mistral Braque had been influenced decisively by Cézanne , and a significant and till recently little known Landscape with Houses , executed probably a month or two later shows him putting his studies of Cézanne to daring if not totally satisfactory conclusions . |
| 4 | In non-orthodox circles also the blood taboo , in culturally received if not strictly religious terms , is strong and is observed to varying degrees in context of inter-personal relations . |
| 5 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 6 | Earlier trials of questions similar to those below suggested that Imperial units would be frequently given if not specifically excluded in the rubric . |
| 7 | He shrugged and said that he loved her , which was reassuring to hear if not particularly helpful . |
| 8 | Their abuse was tolerated if not actually encouraged by the general public . |
| 9 | However , they provide a basis for research , because they are ‘ not directly accessible to measurement ’ but their ‘ postulated components can be easily assessed if not immediately quantified ’ . |
| 10 | It was game and set if not yet match . |
| 11 | Had she really agreed to live if not exactly in a wilderness , yet certainly in a place which gave every appearance of being truly rural ? |
| 12 | Thus Hilton says : But he is aware of the extremely close if not absolutely inseparable connection between the two modes of knowing , for : This shadow is cast by the body of Christ through the light of God . |
| 13 | Dillon LJ doubted the distinction between the two sorts of decisions : " Even speaking valuations may say much or little ; they may be voluble or taciturn if not wholly dumb . " |
| 14 | It is particularly commonly seen in highland New Guinea , an island where spineless forms of the sago palm , Metroxylon sagu , have been selected ; several fruit-trees are encouraged if not actively cultivated there . |
| 15 | I think if not ever . |
| 16 | Prijon plastic definitely ameliorates if not quite gets rid of this problem . |
| 17 | By then he was composed if not actually welcoming , but he was too late . |
| 18 | The entire painting was thus conceived if not exactly as a kind of memento mori , at least as a statement about sexual compulsion and gratification and concomitant feelings of disgust , danger and fear of disease . |
| 19 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 20 | Part of that reordering was Gloucester 's exchange of Skipton in Craven for Chirk in 1475 , endorsed if not actually organized by the crown , which was a tacit acknowledgement of the division of power between the Stanleys and Gloucester . |
| 21 | Part of that reordering was Gloucester 's exchange of Skipton in Craven for Chirk in 1475 , endorsed if not actually organized by the crown , which was a tacit acknowledgement of the division of power between the Stanleys and Gloucester . |