Example sentences of "if it be not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the aquarium is brighter than the dealer 's tank , they will produce more pigment ; if it is not so well-lit they will reduce the amount present . |
| 2 | ‘ If it was n't so warm it would be more like November or December ’ |
| 3 | If it was n't so tragic it would be pathetic . |
| 4 | CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION : IF IT WAS N'T SO SAD IT WOULD BE FUNNY |
| 5 | If it was n't so sad , it would be funny . |
| 6 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
| 7 | If it was n't so tragic , it would be laughable . |
| 8 | If it was not so serious it would be laughable . |
| 9 | On the student 's enrolling , the practice came to be — if it was not so right from the beginning of the sixteenth century-that he chose which area he preferred to work in , whether the European or Asiatic part of the empire , and signed on with the appropriate kazasker . |
| 10 | But I swear to God , if it was not so prejudicial to my future , I 'd marry you tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | Labour 's prescription for the British economy would be risible , if it were not so dangerous . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 17 | If it were not so , she would never have allowed it to succeed . ’ |
| 18 | If it were not so we should go mad at once . |
| 19 | It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely . |
| 20 | Mr. Ryan said that the situation regarding salaries in AIB in Britain would be a joke if it were not so tragic . |
| 21 | Even Phyllis 's racial prejudice might have had a touch of the humorous about it , if it were n't so offensive and pathetic . |
| 22 | ‘ If it were n't so entirely destructive of your recovery , Ian , I would love to publish , ’ he said to me . |
| 23 | If it were n't so perplexing , it would be quite funny . |
| 24 | It would be laughable if it were n't so desperately painful . |
| 25 | ‘ That might be funny if it were n't so utterly ludicrous . ’ |
| 26 | If it were n't so ludicrous , it would be laughable ! |