Example sentences of "if not [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have mentioned in previous chapters , at the time of a death complicated practical issues need to be decided : to bury or cremate ; was there a will and if not how do you organize probate ; how do you get hold of money from an account that is not in your name ; how do you register a death . |
| 2 | If not then make it your goal to aspire to some of the qualities mentioned , to live with courage , dignity and self-respect . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if not actually take her , Mary was always doing good works , that kind of thing , that 's how she got to know Mr Boston . |
| 4 | However , factors that might theoretically if not actually subject it to some strain need to be understood , as do those conducive to its most efficient operation . |
| 5 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've cut me , ’ he said , as if not quite believing it . |
| 7 | If not correctly understood it can be the Achilles ' heel of a complicated chain of investigations . |