Example sentences of "[conj] it were not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's prescription for the British economy would be risible , if it were not so dangerous . |
| 2 | Indeed , on average , each pair of cod produces only two offspring of opposite sexes that survive to breed in the course of their lives , for if it were not so , the population of cod would grow and grow , which it clearly does not . |
| 3 | It is essential that a transmitter can be inactivated as soon as it has conveyed its message ; if it were not so , the system would be clogged or would receive needless repetitions of the same message . |
| 4 | When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad . |
| 5 | The future of a novel in the process of composition is always vague , provisional , unpredictable — if it were not so , the labour of writing it would be too tedious to bear . |
| 6 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 7 | If it were not so , she would never have allowed it to succeed . ’ |
| 8 | If it were not so we should go mad at once . |
| 9 | It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely . |
| 10 | Mr. Ryan said that the situation regarding salaries in AIB in Britain would be a joke if it were not so tragic . |