Example sentences of "if we [modal v] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if we ca n't fully enjoy the place there 's not much point in keeping it . |
| 2 | It demeans politics if we ca n't occasionally have a laugh . |
| 3 | Well , we certainly ought to try , and if we ca n't then there 'll be a very good case for generous compensation out of the secret funds . ’ |
| 4 | But if we ca n't then we take him out of Saint Christopher 's next year and put him in a state school . |
| 5 | If we can not even face the present , of course we can not build the future . |
| 6 | If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country . |
| 7 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 8 | We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it . |
| 9 | If we can not then we shall all lose . |
| 10 | If we can not really be sure about the way this Christianization of the urban population was brought about , we can , however , discern some of the anxieties that accompanied it . |
| 11 | We would be able to do it more easily if we could not only accurately assess the reading performance of individual children but also the readability of particular texts . |