Example sentences of "if the [adj] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the accused does not fall within s.2(1) , he may still be not dishonest for the purposes of the Act . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if the room cues are rotated so that , for instance , the clock now appears in the south instead of the north , the rat will become confused , swimming to the region of the tank at which the shelf would have been relative to the clock if the latter had not been shifted . |
| 3 | What is now holding sway in the super-ego is , as it were , a pure culture of the death instincts , and in fact it often enough succeeds in driving the ego into death , if the latter does not fend off its tyrant in time by the change round into mania . |
| 4 | Certainly , if the latter did not want to be represented or could easily apply for judicial review in person , there might be no good reason to accord standing to a self-appointed representative . |
| 5 | The gigantic figure had passed by Frankenstein as if the latter did not exist . |
| 6 | Under current legislation the school will have increased control of its resources , even if the latter do not increase . |
| 7 | ‘ Very soon this city will burn with the fires of revolt if the rich do not get off their fat arses and do more to help ! ’ |
| 8 | The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ . |
| 9 | Calvet was in spectacular form at Paris , calling for an immediate rethink on Japanese access to Europe and outlining a five-point plan : that no new transplants be established in Europe ; that those in existence have outputs capped ; that quotas be maintained between 1992 and 2002 and continued after that if the Japanese do n't play ball ; that overall European penetration levels should stay at 10 per cent from the East and that France could keep its three per cent quota ; and finally , that all Japanese cars , no matter where they 're built , should be included in calculations , and the EC should assist automotive industry investment . |
| 10 | The question remains , if the Irish do not want toxic waste , will Britain have to accept even more of it ? |
| 11 | If the elderly do not have money , then the answer is to put them in government homes . |
| 12 | If the haulier does not wish to be involved in the detailed process of debt collection he can always ‘ sell' ’ his debts at a discounted price or use a debt collection agency . |
| 13 | If the military do n't use the area often , they can not cause as much distress to the natural environment as opening it to the public would . |
| 14 | So if the French do not forget , the British should remember their scientists too . |
| 15 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 16 | If the French do not proceed erm as they are indicating , what happens then to the status of our own constituencies . |
| 17 | If the French do not ratify these proposals as may appear likely now er how late can the minister leave it before he informs the people that they must fight the European elections on the old boundaries and not the new ? |
| 18 | I thought I heard him say that there was some discretion in this matter , if the French do n't go ahead there is some discretion on the part of the British government , I thought it was automatic that if the French do n't ratify then we wo n't be able to ratify . |
| 19 | I thought I heard him say that there was some discretion in this matter , if the French do n't go ahead there is some discretion on the part of the British government , I thought it was automatic that if the French do n't ratify then we wo n't be able to ratify . |
| 20 | If the English do not like children , it is because they think they ought to behave properly , responsibly and quietly in their presence and can never riot or have a good time when they 're around . |
| 21 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 22 | If both mate with her , they both help to rear the young , but if the subordinate does not mate , he does n't help the female . |
| 23 | And if the worst does not arise — anything else must be better and therefore easier to handle ! |