Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [not/n't] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What are the non-market factors which may increase the risk of an investment and how may they be minimized if not eradicated ? |
| 2 | By ensuring that each component of the design has , at the time he is working on it , a rational and logical position on the tree , assembly interferences and later modifications to the design can be minimized if not avoided entirely . |
| 3 | By ensuring that each component of the design has , at the time he is working on it , a rational and logical position on the tree , assembly interferences and later modifications to the design can be minimized if not avoided entirely . |
| 4 | Unless there is a concerted effort on the part of government and responsible agencies , independent organisations and enterprises to lend their legislative and practical determination and financial support to finding solutions , the heritage on which tourism depends will be irreversibly degraded if not destroyed . |
| 5 | Most people have not been indoctrinated into religious faith but into a questioning or ignoring of religion as basically superseded if not actually false . |
| 6 | Such contacts are likely to be discouraged if not banned by the system and will necessarily need to be handled with the utmost discretion . |
| 7 | It is the elapsed time after which a request to Offline a Package will be cancelled if not completed . |
| 8 | When a successful grocer was asked by a grocer 's daughter how to run the health service , what could we have expected if not a supermarket chain enterprise — open all hours . |
| 9 | They proposed instead a new list of candidates which included themselves ‘ and certain other painters whom we knew to a greater or lesser extent … who seemed to us capable of representing if not a particular tendency at least a certain standard ’ . |
| 10 | The prospects for future economic growth sufficient to contain if not to solve mass poverty seemed less certain . |
| 11 | Members of the Great and Good appointed to these bodies not only had similar backgrounds and education , but acceptance of the job , with its admission to a distinguished club , involved adopting if not identical views , at least a similar perspective . |
| 12 | She had many upper garments of different materials and styles which she changed according not to the weather but to her mood : she had large woollen jumpers and little skimpy vests , lacy or patterned blouses and voluminous T-shirts ; shirts of chiffon and shirts of linen . |
| 13 | The UK Department of Environment ( 1979a ) suggests the effect of ozone depletion on surface temperature would be barely detectable , while Reck ( 1976 ) suggests that the surface temperature would change by between -0.6 °C and + 0.8 °C , the sign depending upon the underlying surface albedo and the presence or absence of clouds and particulate pollution layers ( warming when aerosol hazes are present , cooling when not present ) . |
| 14 | The Humberside winter league was cancelled as not all the teams turned up but the anglers left arranged an Open on the Trent at Caythorpe . |
| 15 | Consider the way you eat , exercise , and socialize when not dieting . |
| 16 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 17 | His wife who I am told still resides up at Fiesole has been heard to call her husband ‘ the old Brute ’ and when a wife speaks thus I am more of a mind to listen than not . |
| 18 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 19 | Every castle and site of consequence has its guide book , and many of these are well written if not actually comprehensive . |
| 20 | After the pubs are closed , on the off-chance , I mean , cos if you get here what the hell do you do if not as if you 've got an alternative is there ? |
| 21 | The class gets used to performing at a particular speed and also the movement becomes greatly disturbed if not at the right tempo . |
| 22 | And then , as you would surely expect if not demand , we come to the greatest of all operettas , ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ ( 1874 ) — starting with the famous overture , and going on to excerpts from the party scene of Act II . |
| 23 | A notable innovation was the proposal that Class A applications should be deemed granted if not decided upon within forty-two days . |
| 24 | Any romanticised impressions I may have had of the East End were quickly tempered if not dispelled by the striking images of endemic poverty and a sclerotic political culture . |
| 25 | The statements of their writers are presumed to be evidence of judicial decisions that have been lost and are therefore accepted if not contrary to reason . |
| 26 | Make sure you 've fixed into solid material behind plaster — use longer screws and wallplugs if not . |
| 27 | if defendant had paid into court and plaintiff had accepted , plaintiff would have been entitled to an order for costs to be taxed if not agreed . |
| 28 | Prison officers allege that the implementation of Fresh Start has led to understaffing because not enough new prison officers have been recruited . |
| 29 | Magistrates at Devizes , Wilts , cleared him of acting illegally as a bookmaker at Crown Bookmakers at Ermine Street , Swindon , and acting while not a licence holder . |
| 30 | Whites price was obviously done whilst NOT in the first team . |