Example sentences of "if [not/n't] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed . |
| 2 | A significant parallel , which says much about the degradation that Falstaff reaches , is that he , too , ends scenes with unheroic , self-satisfied prose soliloquies , if not so vicious ( 1 Henry IV , V.i. ; V.iii. ; 2 Henry IV , III.ii. ; IV.iii. ; V.i . ) . |
| 3 | For a start , there is a clear answer to the question of where thoughts and feelings take place , if not so fine an answer as we might like . |
| 4 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 5 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 6 | In practice , clients of a firm of solicitors ( if not so readily creditors ) will usually be informed of a change in the membership quite speedily . |
| 7 | The court may have ordered one party 's solicitor to conduct the conveyancing ; but if not so , it would seem appropriate ( assuming the husband to be the conveyancing or transferring party ) for the husband 's solicitors , if the house is in the sole name or even if it is in the joint names of the husband and wife , to deliver to the wife 's solicitors an epitome of title consisting of a copy of the last conveyance , copy of any mortgage , copies of any documents relating to " sales-off " or other transactions affecting the property and copies of any covenants affecting the same . |