Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 2 | For my part , I think Benedict would do better if she does not saddle him with it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 4 | You wo n't be long if you do not wish . ’ |
| 5 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 6 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 7 | It can be rescued only if we do not take judicial opinions at face value at all ; we must treat all the judges who worry about problematical statutes and precedents as practising some unmotivated form of deception . |
| 8 | Perhaps only if you did not have power : Beaton from St Andrews came to Arbroath in 1524 : the Abbey contributed to the lifestyle and wellbeing of his mistress , a fecund Miss Ogilvy , and their seven bastards . |
| 9 | Suffering can make its full contribution to my awareness only if I do not pursue it in advance , even though its value may be appreciated in retrospect . |
| 10 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 11 | The advantage of this income and converted payments method over the full accruals method is that personal creditors accounts do not have to be maintained ( why keep a record of the individuals to whom you owe money — they will tell you soon enough if you do not settle ) and the bookkeeping effort is reduced . |
| 12 | It seems to me that parents as well as their children have rights , so if you do not feel comfortable about letting the couple share a bedroom in the family home , you should be free to say so . |
| 13 | It is also hard to move without being promoted , so if you do not want more administrative responsibility , or are not promotion material , again you are inhibited from searching for a more congenial workplace . |
| 14 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 15 | Talking too much has the additional disadvantage that you may end up revealing more than you intended , especially if you do not want to draw attention to a lack of relevant expertise , or a past unhappy work experience . |
| 16 | Thus if it does not make sense to suppose that the designatum of " A " might be different from what it is , then " A " is a rigid designator , otherwise it is non-rigid . |
| 17 | In the preceding section it was accepted without question that if experiments were wasteful , presumably with or without animals , it would be best if they did not take place . |
| 18 | Programmes would wither away if they did not command sufficient local support . |
| 19 | We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium . |
| 20 | We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium . |
| 21 | We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium . |
| 22 | We can also cancel this policy straight away if you do not pay the premium or any instalment of the premium . |
| 23 | Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money . |
| 24 | But it will not be contained effectively if we do not deal with the refugee problem immediately . ’ |
| 25 | It is all right if you do not harm the fawns . |
| 26 | The first pruning after planting is the important formative prune — the plant can not be expected to grow right if it does not start right . |
| 27 | The president 's unilateral reforms will achieve little if he does not talk to blacks . |
| 28 | He did not ant to see us make the same mistake in Iran as it might cost us much more if we did not move now " . |
| 29 | But it may be additional in the same way as the government argues EEC money to the North is — that is , they argue that they plan their spending in the expectation that they will get the EEC money and would plan differently if they did not expect to get it . |
| 30 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |