Example sentences of "if it [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first pruning after planting is the important formative prune — the plant can not be expected to grow right if it does not start right . |
| 2 | If you are involved in a nanny share , depending on the financial arrangements , l it may be viewed as a business even if it does not feel like one ! |
| 3 | ‘ History , which is , indeed , little more than the register of the crimes , follies and misfortunes of mankind , ’ for instance ; or , ‘ corruption , the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty , ’ and , most chillingly , ‘ all that is human must be retrograde if it does not advance . ’ |
| 4 | If it does not result in a changed life , a holy life , there is no reality about it — there is , in short , no justification . |
| 5 | Sun Alliance further guarantee that you may , within 15 days , return your policy if it does not meet your requirements , and that you will be under no obligation whatsoever . |
| 6 | You may return your Policy within 15 days of receiving it , if it does not meet with your full approval . |
| 7 | Lastly , under the so-called ‘ Dutch ’ clause , member states may request the Commission to review the effect of any concentration , even if it does not meet the thresholds of the Merger Regulation . |
| 8 | This is of little significance if it does not meet the expectations of the users , who are the customers . |
| 9 | If the customer posts his notice of cancellation , it will be effective to cancel the agreement provided it is posted within the cooling-off period , i.e. even if it does not reach the trader until later or even if it never reaches him . |
| 10 | Thus if it does not make sense to suppose that the designatum of " A " might be different from what it is , then " A " is a rigid designator , otherwise it is non-rigid . |
| 11 | The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so . |
| 12 | Nias argues that the description of what the primary teacher puts into that amalgam is incomplete " if it does not make room for potentially dangerous emotions such as love , rage and jealousy on the one hand and intermittent narcissism and outbreaks of possessive dependence on the other " . |
| 13 | Israel will not be forced to attend a Middle East peace conference over the Palestinian issue after the war is over if it does not want to — and it certainly does not . |
| 14 | It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one . |
| 15 | Equally , if an institution has excess funds at the moment , and expects interest rates to rise , it will be acting rationally if it does not lend those funds out , except very short term . |
| 16 | Even if it does not lead one to obey authority more often than one would otherwise , it affects one 's reasons and the significance of one 's actions . |
| 17 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is a childlike belief at the Foreign Office that if it does not admit to the existence of MI6 , foreign governments will believe Britain does not spy on them . |
| 20 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 21 | If it does not do so within the one month time limit , compatibility is presumed . |
| 22 | The latest draft treaty gives the Council power to instruct a member state participating in stage three to reduce its deficit and to impose sanctions if it does not do so . |
| 23 | If it does not do so , the case will be referred to the European Court for a ruling . |
| 24 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 25 | If there is no tuba , the part which would have been given to it will be allotted to two bassoons in unison ( if it does not go too low for them , of course ) . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister has again defended the Maastricht Treaty warning that Britain faces isolation in Europe if it does not go through . |
| 27 | If it does not stand as a moral example to the followers of the Church , it counts for nothing . |
| 28 | Yet it is all I have , and , if it does not loose you , yet it binds me . |
| 29 | When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference . |
| 30 | In addition , being a reputable society which alone among building societies is challenging the lawfulness of the demand , it understandably fears damage to its reputation if it does not pay . |