Example sentences of "if we [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life . |
| 2 | A typical view was expressed in a guide-book to Bedfordshire by the Revd Thomas Cox in 1721 : ‘ John Bunyan , author of the Pilgrim 's progress , and several other little books of an antinomian spirit , too frequently to be met with in the hands of the common people , was , if we mistake not , a brazier of Bedford . ’ |
| 3 | In every case , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , if we had not done what we did but something else the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 4 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 5 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 6 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
| 7 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 8 | If we had not a right to the kingdom , we were mere mercenary soldiers . |
| 9 | The first criterion can be satisfied , of course , without its also being true that even if x ( any other event or condition or set of them ) had also occurred , then if we had not got cc we would not have got e . |
| 10 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 11 | If we had not provided you this delay , and this opportunity , what would you have done ? ’ |
| 12 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 13 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |
| 14 | I am not alone in believing that the result of both world wars could have been very different if we had not had those effective territorial forces in place in 1914 and 1939 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , I do not believe for one moment — I made this point on enough occasions to the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) — that , if we had not given potential investors the opportunity to buy a power station that could be converted to gas , there would have been much hope of bringing a gas pipeline to Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | If we had not given investors the chance to bid for Ballylumford and taken steps towards privatisation , that vital option would not have been made available to us . |
| 17 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 18 | If we had not been brought here we would be dead |
| 19 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 20 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 21 | We do n't bother any more if we 've not got a good chance of winning . |
| 22 | If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days . |
| 23 | We are more likely to lose the substantially greater related fee income if we decide not to continue auditing and are thereby forced to pass the affairs of these clients to those firms who wish to be auditors . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 25 | If we chronicle not how Eliot 's reputation was advanced , but how Eliot 's poetry ( and all modern poetry ) came to be understood , the part played by Allen Tate bulks very large and honourably . |
| 26 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
| 27 | Depression is something we allow to happen if we choose not to mourn . |
| 28 | If we choose not to include the lasting works in the lonely mountains , only church registers survive to remind us of this remarkable facet of Keswick , and indeed Coniston 's , past history . |
| 29 | If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework . |
| 30 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |