Example sentences of "if [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the hotel 's rooms have views over the sea , if not over the swimming pool , and the scuba diving school gives novices the opportunity to discover the delights of the Seychellois underworld . |
| 2 | And even without the separation of ownership and control , business complexity and the ‘ organisational distance ’ of shareholders from managers make owner control over the quality of management decision making , if not over the quality of managers , a fiction , suggesting a need for alternative mechanisms for supervising managerial competence . |
| 3 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |
| 4 | Mm , well , bread on the waters if not on the waters of the Severn , any other comments ? |
| 5 | Where land is registered , right gained by adverse possession amounts to an overriding interest , and defeats a purchaser even if not on the register . |
| 6 | The environment within which projects have been planned and executed has frequently allowed these questions to remain unanswered in reality , if not on the paper on which loan agreements are written . |
| 7 | And then I was late , when I got round there I thought well she 'll at least be waiting at the top of the drive , if not at the top of the road . |
| 8 | Accordingly , there was a sense in which humanity remained close to the center , if not at the center itself . |
| 9 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 10 | Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give . |
| 11 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 12 | I took refuge in the truth , if not with the truth he wanted . |
| 13 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 14 | And would politics based on religion have disappeared in Glasgow if not for the rise of the Labour Party ? |
| 15 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 16 | If not for the help of the librarian she might not even have found the book . |
| 17 | Doctors at King 's College Hospital , London , believe that Aisling Barnett , 35 , who suffered liver failure after reacting to a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter , would have died yesterday if not for the operation . |
| 18 | If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis . |
| 19 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 20 | The eventual publication of ‘ Work in Progress ’ , as Finnegans Wake in 1939 , provides a convenient date — if not for the success of the novel itself , too abstract and esoteric to sustain much attention during the war years which followed — at least for critics and literary historians . |
| 21 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 22 | There are other strips full of angst , of the search for self knowledge , if not for the meaning of life . |
| 23 | He would try to gain access to the palace , if not to the houses of Ipuky and Reni . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal had ruled that whether or not such material might be ‘ beneficial to those who were sexually repressed or perverted or deviant ’ did not make its publication ‘ an object of general concern ’ , since otherwise any form of pornography could be defended on the ground that it was beneficial to some people , if not to the public at large . |
| 25 | Watkins L.J. , at p. 82 , asked where else the Home Secretary could look for guidance as to retribution and deterrence , if not to the judges . |
| 26 | In general , areas of tabular relief seem best suited to the preservation , if not to the formation , of incised meanders , e.g. the Mesozoic areas of the Paris Basin and the lower Wye gorge , although why this should be so is not certain . |
| 27 | Orders for discovery rarely are made in criminal appeals and , when made , generally go , if not to the prosecution , then , as here , to a statutory body . |
| 28 | Wilfrid , however , reacted passionately , if not to the partition of his diocese then to his expulsion and to the bishops who were appointed from communities other than his own — Eata , who had been obliged to leave a new monastic foundation at Ripon to make way for Wilfrid in Ealhfrith 's time , now consecrated bishop in Bernicia with his see at Wilfrid 's monastic foundation at Hexham ; Eadhaed , a former companion of Chad ( HE 111 , 28 ) , bishop of Lindsey ; and Bosa , trained at Whitby where the community under Abbess Hild had opposed acceptance of the Roman Easter at the council of Whitby , bishop of Deira at York ( HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 29 | Despite his pessimism , the Prince has , of course , made a considerable difference , if not to the world , then certainly to a number of individuals living in it . |
| 30 | For the Iraqis , the appeal was mainly the converse : it was a means of pushing armour , if not to the outskirts of Tehran itself , at least towards other important targets on the way , such as Kermanshah ( now renamed Bakhtaran ) and Hamadan . |