Example sentences of "not [verb] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question does not arise if the decision is forced by circumstances . |
| 2 | It is submitted that there is no good reason why an obligation of confidence should not arise if the supplier of the information clearly expresses it to be confidential . |
| 3 | These problems do not arise if the referee is an expert . |
| 4 | That reference does no more than show that the essential element of dishonesty does not exist if the defendant when he appropriates the property believes that the owner would consent if he knew the circumstances . |
| 5 | They consulted the archbishop or archbishops , took their advice , did not persist if the archbishop brought good reasons for a contrary opinion , and did not allow their ‘ patronage secretary ’ any ‘ independent ’ authority . |
| 6 | In the Eighties one High Street bank was taken for £15 million but struck a deal not to prosecute if the money was returned . |
| 7 | But this can not survive if an orchestra loses its individuality and independence . |
| 8 | I do not know if the vicar was believed or not , but thereafter the bridge was known as Devil 's Bridge . |
| 9 | We do not know if the fragment was ever sent to ‘ Sheila ’ . |
| 10 | Ellis said he did not know if the girl took clients back to his flat and he would have ‘ gone up the wall ’ if she did . |
| 11 | In addition , as Caro ( May 29 , p 1381 ) points out , we do not know if the baseline embolic risks and responses to treatment of people with AF in the community would match those seen in highly selected study populations . |
| 12 | I do not know if the gesture is valid , but I enjoy the ritual ; it makes me feel better . |
| 13 | We do not know if the cause is genetic , the result of physical or mental antecedents such as infection or early childhood experiences or , as has been suggested by some observers , the outcome of growing up feeling disaffected and disenfranchised in a rejecting society which offers black people few prospects of work , wealth and the good things in life to which white people aspire . |
| 14 | Follow up calls are not permitted if the investor has recently made it clear to the firm that he does not wish to discuss the matter . |
| 15 | Rots can not flourish if the moisture content of the wood is below 18 per cent although the spores can remain alive in quite dry timber , waiting for a rainy day . |
| 16 | A hospital spokesman in Los Angeles could not confirm if the tumour was cancerous . |
| 17 | If , however , the music is highly chromatic , our memory of the original key is quickly obscured , so that we accept the establishment of new keys readily and are not disturbed if the music ends in a tonality which has nothing to do with the original key . |
| 18 | Because they are mouthbrooders it does not matter if a male holds only a small or temporary territory , as the eggs are safe in the female 's mouth . |
| 19 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |
| 20 | If this assertion is correct , then it would not matter if the standing requirement was abolished entirely , provided some other mechanism was put in its place for weeding out hopeless and crank cases . |
| 21 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 22 | It does not matter if the cartoon is insulting to men . |
| 23 | It does not matter if the man is fulltime employed or unemployed , the balance of domestic work is still determined by the woman 's employment status . |
| 24 | It does not matter if the man with the wire in his head is good or bad . |
| 25 | In the UK , the commonest deficiencies are of iron and vitamin B. A mild deficiency detected by blood test may not matter if the diet is essentially well-balanced and the person is well . |
| 26 | The ITA decided that in this region it did not matter if the finance was not ‘ local ’ . |
| 27 | If there is a bob or two to be made , old rootstocks may be sold as ‘ hedging roses ’ with a bit of brash advertising — it does not matter if the illustration is nothing like the truth , the media do not know any better — and somebody will buy them , they always do . |
| 28 | It does not matter if the opponent steps out as long as your technique strikes home before the referee has time to stop the bout . |
| 29 | Just as the importance of the Stanley anecdote was not whether it was true or not , in a sense it does not matter if the Renaissance cultural relations Greenblatt posits actually existed , because the truth of that cultural negotiation is exchangeable for the writing that more directly serves power , in this case the critical writing which establishes the critic as salaried shaman . |
| 30 | The defence of " fair comment " will not succeed if the comment is made without any factual basis . |