Example sentences of "[verb] if it be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’ |
| 2 | Where a procession is organised without notice , no offence is committed if it was not ‘ reasonably practicable ’ to give such notice , either at all , or within the specified six clear days . |
| 3 | Well you bu you 'll know if it is n't . |
| 4 | I found the homework , homework diary was useful because I used to check in , end of every of week they used to know if it was n't there I 'd want to know why it was n't done ! |
| 5 | You 'd be walking if it was n't for me . |
| 6 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 7 | One is forced to ask what OSF had to gain and wonders if it was n't some kind of supralegal manoeuvre to put pressure on Addamax and Sun because they 've got something on the OSF contingent . |
| 8 | He says if it 's not cut down it literally chokes the jungle and so every four or five years the mangrove is cut and then it grows again like a blackthorn or hawthorn hedge would grow . |
| 9 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 10 | As the monsoon season ran its usual course in Snowdonia , anybody with any sense fled to warmer climes while the rest of us sat and talked about what we would do if it was n't raining . |
| 11 | But I do n't know what I 'd do if it were n't for Sean . |
| 12 | He says that the building fits in with its surroundings , and would never have been allowed to be built if it was n't safe . |
| 13 | Because you will not have it accepted if it is not in the house style , and there are conventions , appropriate , and quite different , according to the magazine , the newspaper , and so on and so forth , so you need to acquaint yourself with the house style . |
| 14 | Whenever a child is created , it is only added to OPEN if it is not already in OPEN or CLOSED . |
| 15 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 16 | One might ask how the church has grown if it is not out to recruit members from other denominations . |
| 17 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 18 | Have a guess does n't matter if it 's not right . |
| 19 | Conversely , a purchased option where the investor is free to allow the option to lapse if it is not in his interest to exercise it will not be a contingent liability transaction . |
| 20 | but I mean if it 's not yet that 's fine . |
| 21 | That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark . |
| 22 | I do n't laugh if it 's not funny . |
| 23 | Yes , now you , you played stuff just as difficult as this , and there 's no , no problem , do n't do it too quickly though , and , I do n't mind if it 's not finished next week , or the week after , it 's the quality we want , so , so , do n't , do n't rush it . |
| 24 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 25 | So if that if that 's a right angle only if it 's a right angle cos Pythagoras 's theorem does n't work if it 's not then we 've got the easy way to remember Pythagoras is long equals medium plus short . |
| 26 | He would have laughed if it were not for the echo of the screaming in his head . |
| 27 | We need to know what happened if it is not it is not , like thalidomide and practolol , to be swept under the carpet of history |
| 28 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 29 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 30 | I hope that it will be possible — though I shall understand if it is not — for a Minister to come to the House to say something about that major incident , which involved the jetty at Grangemouth , which is part of the dock and BP complex . |