Example sentences of "if [not/n't] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has to be a freshness about teaching — it can not be pre-arranged and pre-packaged , for that almost always loses the attention of pupils , even if not also of the teacher . |
| 2 | Some people , brought up in the expectation of forging a career and getting near the top if not right to the top in their profession , may be deeply committed to their work . |
| 3 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 4 | The entire painting was thus conceived if not exactly as a kind of memento mori , at least as a statement about sexual compulsion and gratification and concomitant feelings of disgust , danger and fear of disease . |
| 5 | In this case the problem comes , if not exactly within the secretary of state 's own department , at least from within a public agency . |
| 6 | Had she really agreed to live if not exactly in a wilderness , yet certainly in a place which gave every appearance of being truly rural ? |
| 7 | The evaluators have identified eight events which are attributable mainly if not exclusively to the project and its panel . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend the Minister must pay attention to the point that has been made — that time limits must be set for , first , appointing an inspector and secondly , the production of the inspector 's report once the inquiry is complete , if not necessarily on the length of the inquiry . |
| 9 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 10 | ‘ I can ask no more then ; but I can add one more thing : My heartfelt thanks in that you 're free , if not actually from the house , then from its clutch of women . ’ |
| 11 | Troumouse is magnificent , if not quite with the sublimity of Gavarnie because there is more grass here and the ring of mountain wall is more open . |
| 12 | And in other spheres too , such as philosophy , a figure like Schopenhauer ( to choose a single example particularly relevant to our general concern ) can be taken to represent the respect for Greek literature general among the intellectual élite of the time : in his case , Plato , above all , was not merely an interest but an important influence — if not quite to the extent he claimed himself — on his own work . |
| 13 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |