Example sentences of "[adv] if we do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 2 | It can be rescued only if we do not take judicial opinions at face value at all ; we must treat all the judges who worry about problematical statutes and precedents as practising some unmotivated form of deception . |
| 3 | But it will not be contained effectively if we do not deal with the refugee problem immediately . ’ |
| 4 | He did not ant to see us make the same mistake in Iran as it might cost us much more if we did not move now " . |
| 5 | Even if we do not want to take too seriously the feuds between Cato and Quinctius Flamininus ( Plut . |
| 6 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I shall tell you something which I wish you to remember , even if we do not meet again soon after this week . ’ |
| 8 | His general point may survive even if we do not share his preferences for physics , or even science . |
| 9 | In this way the man and his sheep may linger in our minds , even if we do not remember the economic difficulties so clearly — ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ would make a good title for a Victorian narrative painting . |
| 10 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 11 | The Labour party needs him badly , even if we do not agree with him . |
| 12 | ( Even if we do not accept the predominant view that names lack a meaning fixed by social convention , no alteration is required in the principles we are sketching here . ) |
| 13 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 14 | It is easy to tell if someone is angry or friendly towards us , even if we do not understand their language . |
| 15 | The result applies even if we do not have all > 0 since the device of adding a constant K to all terms simply adds K to and . |
| 16 | He was followed in the same debate by a junior who informed the representative body that even if we did not vote for the juniors ' motion a solution would be imposed by the Department of Health in conjunction with the juniors whether we liked it or not . |
| 17 | We shall get nowhere if we do not acknowledge this . |