Example sentences of "[adj] unless it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That is to say , a system could not be cognisant unless it appreciated how intentional changes in its perceptions were constrained by reality .
2 But the idea of wilderness becomes meaningless unless it implies a state of affairs in which , over some quite large tracts of land , deliberate human control has been removed .
3 From July 22 , EC Directive 2092/91 comes into force , making it an offence to describe a wine as organic unless it has been approved by a governing body , itself approved by the EC .
4 Any explanation of what occurred in the war 's opening stages is incomplete unless it includes the traumas of collectivisation , the purges , the antagonism of the peasantry and the strength of national sentiment in recently annexed regions — and any accounting for Vlasov 's ‘ Russian Liberation Army ’ is impossible .
5 Movement in depth can not by rhythmic unless it reveals at least three stages : foreground , middleground and background .
6 No justification therefore exists for treating subfertile women with contraceptive drugs , and the endometriosis should be considered to be coincidental unless it has caused tubal and ovarian damage that requires repair .
7 Should we then say that Uruguay is not neutral unless it starts providing the country suffering from the shortage in that commodity ?
8 One is the revision of the clean-water act , which will be ineffective unless it includes taxes or fees on the use of pesticides and fertilisers that leach into rivers .
9 Crawford notes that while the architecture is useful to represent the business strategy , and while the associated products are necessary building blocks , the model is useless unless it allows for services to put the various pieces of the puzzle together .
10 A government committed to a sustained reduction in the growth of the money supply over a number of years will find this very difficult unless it restricts the size of the public-sector deficit .
11 Q7 " A firm can not be considered to be genuinely marketing-orientated unless it has a thorough understanding of its markets , its customers and their problems . "
12 The direct downward view is dull unless it contains another subject at an interim level , such as a kite .
13 The problem is that the ‘ well-constructed ’ or ‘ textbook ’ ad is liable to be extremely boring unless it embodies a really good idea , and that it is possible for a skilled creative person to bend the ‘ rules ’ of construction in such a way as to make a moderately good idea look or sound much better .
14 Such a judicial interference is unacceptable unless it falls within the exceptions set out in article 10(2) , which are to be narrowly interpreted and the necessity for any restrictions convincingly established .
15 These provisions were strengthened in the 1982 Act which provided that no closed shop should be enforceable unless it had been approved by a clear majority of employees voting in a secret ballot .
16 Nature was dead unless it had his soul in it .
17 The people , having once surrendered it , could not revoke their delegation ; and no subordinate authority in his dominions , whether of a guild , a religious order or the estates of a province , could be valid unless it emanated from or was confirmed by him .
18 ‘ Overkill ’ causes unnecessary suffering to the offender , and all suffering is bad unless it prevents a greater amount of suffering or brings about a greater quantity of pleasure .
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