Example sentences of "[not/n't] we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Er and if not we would move to discuss Harrogate .
2 But in the main we will lift whatever they want if they 've got something like that in existence if not we 'll do it for them .
3 If not we 'll move on , thank you Mr .
4 As likely as not we 'll blow a tyre , slew off , and become three small puddles of melted fat in a blackened and twisted plane wreck ! ’
5 If not we 'll try Northumbria Water .
6 Ah , well if not we 'll try the car .
7 the trip or not we 'll find out this afternoon .
8 Department numbers and how you spend it so you must have to fill this card in I should think The only the only department is the cosmetics that 's not we 'll ask when we get there .
9 Hopefully if the doctor prescribes me more antibiotics tomorrow then I 'll have finished them by then — if not we 'll have to rearrange things .
10 I said oh I hope she has n't got another bus so Sharan said I think there is two buses cos whenever I meet mum it 's always a little blue bus and this was a big orange I said well we 'll call at the shop I said and if erm not we 'll have to go home .
11 Well if there 's stuff that 's you know , you do n't want and it 's all right for jumble , I mean if you want it for jumble take it , but if not we 'll have it for jumble , I mean you know it 's erm
12 It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation .
13 If not we may have to lock them in their bedrooms .
14 Is anybody else going to want any sandwiches or sausage rolls , as if not we will give them to people outside .
15 I it sounds very well in principle , but in practice I have n't , doubt very much whether or not we will avoid having a , a dint in , in the service that we need .
16 Even if it does not we will need to replace ageing power stations .
17 And if not we can think of something more specific afterwards .
18 .. more often than not we can REDUCE your monthly repayments .
19 If we know what animals with cytochrome oxidase blobs in their visual cortices can see that those lacking them can not we can learn something about the functions of the blob system .
20 Once these are to hand your Committee can decide whether or not we can afford the additional cost of up-grading the quality of the signs .
21 Erm one of the issues is going to be is whether or not we can afford to improve the level of the commitments apart from adding things as we go through .
22 ‘ Really , it was a game in which I made the rules : always being the one to decide whether or not we 'd make love when we met .
23 Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I held a meeting to discuss the situation ; the question was whether or not we should pull in our horns and try to placate the commercial stations and the politicians whom they had influenced .
24 The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated .
25 ‘ In the light of the Divisional Court 's decision , we have naturally considered very carefully whether or not we should take the matter any further .
26 And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty .
27 Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and
28 Were all here , are n't we let's have a glass of sherry , " he said to Dada .
29 As I said we may not have a set up but if we have n't we 'll set one now .
30 No do n't forget again all the things that you recognize from somebody who was suffering from shock right do n't forget how we treat them okay and we 'll run a film for you now erm , no perhaps we wo n't we 'll deal with the severe bleeding on the palm of the hand and get that out of the way
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