Example sentences of "if it was not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Mrs Whitehouse it seemed that the Church was under a concerted attack and that , if it was not vigorously defended , then there would be nothing to prevent ‘ the tide of permissiveness ’ or the advance of the ‘ new morality ’ . |
| 2 | He opened his mouth to shout a warning to the brothers in their distant dortoir ; if it was not yet much after Lauds they might be waking , and hear him . |
| 3 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 4 | From salmon sperm he also isolated a protein , named protamine , and observed that nuclein was closely associated with proteins if it was not actually a protein itself . |
| 5 | He said that a company could suffer bad headhunting experiences if it was not entirely sure exactly what it wanted the search consultant to do . |
| 6 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 7 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 8 | There was , however , published evidence to suggest that library and resource centre provision should be combined , at least in management terms , even if it was not always possible to bring them together physically . |
| 9 | If it was not so serious it would be laughable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I swear to God , if it was not so prejudicial to my future , I 'd marry you tomorrow . ’ |
| 12 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 13 | The girls knew how soon this mood could change if it was not fully entered into . |