Example sentences of "[adj] if [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 2 | And then some NATO aircraft too , of course , we 're in Great Britain , so it would n't be fitting and proper if we did not have any of the aircraft from the Royal Air force . |
| 3 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 4 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |
| 5 | Especially when after one who had seduced a mother of three , and had got what he wanted , threatened her by blackmail of telling a brutal husband about this if she did not continue the association . |
| 6 | Black told New Scientist he may sue WRCC-26 if they do not retract the letter . |
| 7 | It would be wrong if I did not correct the inaccuracies that are contained within the letter . |
| 8 | I would certainly like to see it , and we 'd be foolish if we did not consider it . ’ |
| 9 | 2 If you do not have the same answer as the one at the end of 6 , what does this reveal about the schema you employed to interpret this discourse ? |
| 10 | I think you , Mr Chairman , it would be totally improper if we did not raise the issue within the within the budget if we did not raise the issue of election members and the expenses of election members . |
| 11 | This would mean that all of the degrees in theology , faithful church attendance and good works are worthless if we do not have it together in this one area . |
| 12 | It can , however , make it impossible if it does not attack the problem with sufficient energy and insight . |
| 13 | It can , however , make it impossible if it does not attack the problem with sufficient energy and insight . |
| 14 | This sum is impossible if you do not know what x stands for . |
| 15 | It occurred to Hobbes that since knowledge , whether systematically developed or not , begins with sense-perception , we should not pride ourselves on knowing much if we do not understand what sense-perception actually is . |
| 16 | GETTING lost in Budapest is easy if you do not speak Hungarian . |
| 17 | ( b ) Adolescents in need There is a separate and additional duty for every local authority " to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who has reached the age of 16 and whose welfare the authority consider is likely to be seriously prejudiced if they do not provide him with accommodation " ( s20(3) ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I am sorry if I do not make sense . ’ |
| 19 | I am sorry if I did not reply . |
| 20 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 21 | I hope that the hon. Member for Beaconsfield will serve on the Committee that will examine the Bill , although I am not trying to condemn him to that if he does not wish to be there , because I think that we might be able to find some common ground . |
| 22 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 23 | She had to find out whether her suspicions were true or not , and how else could she ever hope to do that if she did not ask him directly ? |
| 24 | ‘ That would be strange if you did not forget mine . |
| 25 | My students see that I can manage to get to work every day , and I think they would feel guilty if they did not turn up too . ’ |
| 26 | However , whilst agreeing they might not be annoyed with her , she thought she would feel guilty if she did not start tea until 6 p.m . |
| 27 | As a result of Seymour an accused is guilty if he did not realise that there was an obvious risk of some personal injury to another . |
| 28 | It will be odd if he does not exercise the incoming chairman 's prerogative of dumping as much rubbish as possible into the accounts . |
| 29 | ‘ Also , if she thinks that all that matters is high marks , then she will feel her work is substandard if she does not achieve them . ’ |
| 30 | They should take responsibility for designing shifts and accept that shifts should be changed rather than discarded if they do not work . |