Example sentences of "not be [adv] [verb] unless " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our environmental goals can not be successfully achieved unless action is taken across the Community . |
| 2 | The present attitude of the courts towards judicial review can not be adequately understood unless some idea is conveyed of eighteenth and nineteenth century case law . |
| 3 | Assessments of the current situation in the Soviet Union have meaning in Nizan 's eyes only in the context of this material progress : " Soviet achievements can not be properly evaluated unless they are linked historically to the effort which produced them " he stresses . |
| 4 | Some people think that the law of judicial review can not be properly understood unless it is studied against the background of a particular area of governmental activity such as housing or immigration , in order to see how the general rules are use to deal with particular problems . |
| 5 | Purists would argue that type can not be intelligently designed unless the creator understands the calligraphic origin of the thin and broad parts of most typefaces . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 7 | But the disorders can not be fully understood unless they are seen in the context of complex political , social and economic factors which together create a predisposition towards violent protest ’ ( para. 8.7 ) . |
| 8 | It is indeed still there , to be built on , in Ulysses in the further elaboration of Stephen , but it can not be fully achieved unless the wounds are acknowledged . |