Example sentences of "a [adj] if not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 2 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 3 | Indeed , ‘ mixed ability teaching ’ is a major if not often acknowledged problem in higher education , particularly in English , where the extent of prior knowledge is so variable . |
| 4 | Concern with the nature and structure of knowledge is a continuing if not always explicit aspect of many subjects , but few discussions go beyond the single discipline or field . |
| 5 | It was , now , a single if not entirely united party . |
| 6 | WG also alleges that Mr Carr ‘ perpetrated a massive if not very subtle fraud ’ in December 1987 when AY conducted a stocktake at Alkar 's warehouse . |
| 7 | As with many aspects of any redistributive exercise , sensitivity calculations are an acceptable if not always convincing way forward . |
| 8 | Blackwell produced an ingenious if not wholly convincing scheme for a land bank , to provide credit and to help overcome the colony 's chronic shortage of specie . |
| 9 | In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism . |