Example sentences of "if not the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 2 | ‘ If not the pieces . ’ |
| 3 | But the five year supply deal signed by Enterprise , by which Bass continue to provide the beers , must raise questions as to whether the letter , if not the spirit , of the Supply of Beer Orders are being broken . |
| 4 | A few years later Thomson recognised Cage as ‘ the most original composer in America , if not the world … ’ and Cage repaid the compliment by writing the works section of a monograph on Thomson . |
| 5 | What were they using if not the stuff Johnson intended for babies ' bums ? |
| 6 | And if not the Government , then who ? |
| 7 | In a match made in heaven , if not the sponsors ' dreams , Faldo will play Ballesteros in the semi-finals today and Rafferty will meet Ian Woosnam . |
| 8 | Go where the airline , if not the mood , will take you . |
| 9 | Formal control is therefore immediately effected by the sergeant and inspector , and their personality and leadership style can have a great influence on the morale ( if not the work rate ) of a section . |
| 10 | The reality , of course , does not accord with this gloss , but the commitment if not the viable programme exists . |
| 11 | On social issues the public 's agenda influenced the party agenda if not the television agenda . |
| 12 | Indeed , with the exception of Atlanta 's Cable News Network , seen by a very small audience in Britain , even the introduction of new television technology has so far only extended the reach ( if not the profitability ) of Britain 's existing press barons . |
| 13 | The attention that she has received ( particularly the hype surrounding her tenth anniversary in office in May 1989 ) can tempt one to react and downplay the importance , if not the existence , of Thatcherism . |
| 14 | It is possible — just — to imagine a relatively orthodox artist , critic or historian appreciating the demolition of postmodernism ( if not the evidence of late capitalism 's corruption and decay ) . |
| 15 | He says it is some of the best land in the country , if not the world . |
| 16 | It seems like there 's a negativity at the heart of romantic love , because love is nothing if not the always already doomed fantasy of possession . |
| 17 | Despite the reduction in the number of centre ministers , Mrs Cresson knows she will still often need the abstentions , if not the votes , of the 39 centre deputies . |
| 18 | He retains the influence , if not the constitutional power , of a feudal monarch , has little time for Dr Mahathir and is related by marriage to the leader of Semangat '46 . |
| 19 | Like Moses , they climb their mountains alone , communing with creation if not the creator . |
| 20 | His sense of the long , mixed past of his own family , and the need to rebel against the purpose — if not the pattern — of his upbringing , left him neither passionately involved in everyday things , nor yet coldly indifferent to the other people . |
| 21 | In this way the flea gets to keep its clothes on — at least in the records , if not the collections . |
| 22 | The moral seemed obvious : the reversal of the onslaught on wages and the defence of a minimum wage , if not the establishment of a living wage , could be secured by an alliance among unions . |
| 23 | The simple fact was that large numbers of Victorians , if not the vast majority , liked Gothic . |
| 24 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 25 | Vladek in old age has lost the resilient bounce , if not the courage and obstinacy of his youth . |
| 26 | In even smaller gardens the only solution may be a bamboo wigwam smothered with runner beans , into which junior can crawl and consider , if not the lilies , why Mum and Dad are digging a huge hole in the lawn and filling it with sand . |
| 27 | What is the BBC about if not the making of programmes ? |
| 28 | That should break the ice , if not the glass … |
| 29 | No doubt it was in part imagination , exaggerating the stillness , but there was no mistaking the impression that we were witnessing a general decline in fertility , a form of degeneration , if not the actual death that we imagined . |
| 30 | The honey-tongue ( if not the fidelity ) of the Polish officers was a legend , but the approach of some among their other ranks ( even allowing for language difficulties ) was even cruder than that of the U.S. servicemen . |