Example sentences of "if [not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , my personal reputation with the Labour Party was such that my association with Smith was viewed with tolerance if not with great approval . |
| 2 | Just how much they obtain there from is known only to themselves , but this could well be a final act born of an inextinguishable instinctive knowledge that there is somewhere a source of power available to the individual whereby he can supplement his capacity to face a fading future , or any other of life 's unwelcome experiences , at least with less apprehension , if not with absolute serenity . |
| 3 | So maybe the end is in sight for theoretical physicists , if not for theoretical physics . |
| 4 | Would have saved Yukio and Jesus too if not for bad luck . ’ |
| 5 | But the use of overwhelming numbers , if not of overwhelming force , was clearly a good way to start . |
| 6 | He notes that in Europe employers generally have formed associations and have been willing to accept trade unions , whereas in US industries , especially in manufacturing , employers have pursued more independent policies and their attitude towards unions remains at best , as Thompson and Moore ( 1975 ) have shown , one of grudging tolerance , if not of open hostility . |
| 7 | This is hardly an optimistic conclusion either , since the problem remains of how such equality is to be created if not by elected government itself . |
| 8 | He has permitted this development , which if not in actual breach of European environmental law , is certainly at odds with its spirit . |
| 9 | Since Labour normally holds a large number of Scottish seats , a Labour Government with a small majority could find its authority undermined in moral terms if not in actual fact . |
| 10 | The Cubist painters had claimed for themselves the right to move around their subject and incorporate aspects of it not visible from a single point of view , and they bestowed , in theory if not in actual practice , the same liberty on the spectator in relationship to their own work . |
| 11 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 12 | But in this field of the Lutheran hymn-motet Hassler was far surpassed in bulk and variety , if not in artistic achievement , by Michael Praetorius . |