Example sentences of "then it [vb mod] not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If news bore little or no relation to a person 's experience , then it might not be remembered . |
| 2 | Yet he insists that if the arts are a necessary element in culture and if culture is essential to develop a people 's highest spiritual capacities , then it must not be forgotten that without religion no culture can exist . |
| 3 | If , as indicated above , there are paramount safety and environmental reasons for addressing the traffic problem in residential areas , then it should not be forgotten that there are social arguments too . |
| 4 | If this interpretation of the function is correct , that is , if is in reality a disequilibrium adjustment mechanism , then it can not be treated at one and the same time as a trade off relation . |
| 5 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 6 | Expressed differently , if a thing exists genuinely in se ( i.e. if it is a true substance ) , then a description of its defining features can not involve references to anything outside that thing ; by the same token , if what purports to be a description of a substance involves references to different substances , then it can not be regarded as a genuine description of any substance . |
| 7 | They can be basted more easily directly along the front edge of the board with steel tacks , provided the tacks are covered with braid , but then it can not be removed . |
| 8 | Union observers believe that unless Dagenham can be transformed by 1994 into an efficient , viable plant then it will not be selected for another new model . |
| 9 | Your time is much more limited than it would be in a real case , and you can not afford to waste it ; on the other hand , it is no use gabbling what you have to say , for then it will not be understood . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) ( a ) If on the pre-trial review the district judge has ordered that the hearing be adjourned generally and certificates of readiness ( with an estimate of length of hearing ) be lodged by all parties before the matter is set down , then it will not be regarded as practicable by the court to fix a date of hearing until the certificates or readiness are in fact provided . |
| 11 | Mr McCormick submitted that if any one of the mother 's reasons was possibly valid then it could not be said that the mother 's refusal to consent was outside the reasonable band . |