Example sentences of "and if [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry H noted threateningly at the end of a letter of command addressed to one of his prévôts : ‘ If you do not do this , William of Vernone or his servants will do it ; and if they do not do it , my justice shall do it . ’ |
| 2 | Arthur Young in 1795 , pointing out in a year of extreme hunger that it was against the law to starve in England , included in his argument : " Parish officers are bound to provide … and if they do not do their duty , there is an appeal to the justice , who will force them to its performance . " |
| 3 | The lenders of money have an obligation to lend prudently and if they do not check the creditworthiness of the borrower I think the debt should not be enforceable . |
| 4 | He wants to be where the people are , and if they do not venture to town to visit the Tate or Walker , he 'll bring art to them . |
| 5 | If capitalist enterprises see the prospect of adequate profits then they will borrow investment funds without any government having to insist , and if they do not see investment as profitable then it is useless to try to force them . |
| 6 | But , outclassed and outnumbered , most will be destroyed as soon as they take to the air ; and if they do not take to the air they do not matter . |
| 7 | Seventy-nine per cent saw the sufferer daily ( and if they did not live with him or her this often involved several visits per day ) . |
| 8 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 9 | ‘ I told the IFA that if we got to the World Cup finals and they wanted me to stay on I would and if we did not qualify I would stand down , ’ says Bingham . |
| 10 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 11 | However , there is irrefutable evidence that there will be a shortfall , and if we do not ensure that that gap is identified and ascertain where the resources to meet that gap will come from , not only will the people who are currently seeking community care be disadvantaged , but , more importantly , future generations who might seek care in the community will not receive the resources that at present they believe that they will get . |
| 12 | We are never presented as sexual subjects or objects , so we are less likely to trigger desire , and if we do not believe that we are desirable we will project this and create further obstacles . |
| 13 | And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment , research on orthodox lines will often find one . |
| 14 | The difficulty is that , if the most preferred mate is slightly different from a familiar member of the opposite sex and if we do not know how to measure the difference , we can unwittingly present the animal with a novel object which is less attractive than the familiar . |
| 15 | Mistakes can be made , and if we do not allow correction we are fooling ourselves . |
| 16 | ‘ And if she does not answer ? ’ |
| 17 | There was no question of his approaching the father directly as a man such as Huy would not be allowed into the palace compound ; but Taheb was a rich businesswoman , and if she did not have any personal knowledge of the family , she would have contacts who would . |
| 18 | ‘ Before the reign of James the Fifth , a Highland Laird made a trial of his wife for a certain time , and if she did not please him , he was then at liberty to send her away ’ — which is exactly what took place when a Macdonald married a Macleod . |
| 19 | The method can work if there is a long time for the change-over , if both channels can be kept open and if it does not matter that the two systems are being used haphazardly . |
| 20 | Money supply is exogenous ( independently determined ) if it can be fixed by the authorities and if it does not vary with aggregate demand and interest rates . |
| 21 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 22 | Persistent hypertension was treated by standard methods and if it did not resolve then the dose of the study drug was reduced . |
| 23 | Marriage would come or it would not and if it did not come sooner it would come later or she would be unmarried and what stigma was there in that ? |
| 24 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 25 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 26 | My function was to select and train the Pathfinders , I was given the choice of what I claim was the best and if I did not pick the best . |
| 27 | Nothing was as before because he was there and if I did not persevere with my patronising offers of involvement it was because my confusion was worsening , the patch on my spirit growing . |
| 28 | Again , where a contract provides , e.g. , that A shall pay £100 on 1 January next , and if he does not do so , shall pay £200 , Equity would not allow the £200 to be claimed , but treated it only as a security for the £100 with interest . |
| 29 | And if he does not pay , or does not pay the full amount , then payments will have to be enforced leaving the lone mother to cope in the meantime ( although for those on income support maintenance can , as now , be signed over to the DSS ) . |
| 30 | A plaintiff has only four calendar months ( six if leave to serve out of the jurisdiction is required under RSC Ord 11 ) , in which to serve the writ and if he does not serve it within that period the fact that the last day is a Sunday , when it can not be served , does not come to his aid . |