Example sentences of "if [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to reach the tens of millions in our nation and the tens of thousands in our communities , how are we to do it if not through church planting ? |
| 2 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 3 | For many of us , the approach of 20 signals the end of childhood and 30 slams the door — if not on youth then certainly on the licence to mis-spend it . |
| 4 | You are probably aware that the Marauders hold the most physical area sales meetings in the UK , if not on Planet Earth : the reason for this is that they are then able to carry out the most professional and demanding surveys to get the sale . |
| 5 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 6 | Yet the majority of women repealers clearly identified , if not with feminism , then with a body of ideas and aspirations variously known as the woman question , the emancipation of women , the rights of women and so on . |
| 7 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 8 | And as Chancellor , if not as Transport Secretary , he might be sufficiently prominent to get that invitation to Desert Island Discs and have the Shotts Pipe Band playing over the airwaves . |
| 9 | A person who is displaying an offensive banner in his front window so that it is visible to all the world clearly ‘ displays ’ within section 18 even if not under section 4 . |
| 10 | They 've won 2 out of 13 , let in 25 goals and if not for keeper , Alan Judge , goals against could have topped 30 by Saturday tea time . |
| 11 | I award Mr Lukas good marks for frankness , if not for discretion . |
| 12 | Mark if NOT for publication . |
| 13 | And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice . |
| 14 | Civil servants are in the same department for many years , if not for life , while the minister lasts only two to three years . |
| 15 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 16 | Predictably serious negotiations ensued , if not for peace then at least for the ransom of King John ; but several years of intermittent diplomacy and warfare passed before a treaty was concluded at Brétigny in 1360 and confirmed at Calais in 1361 . |
| 17 | " Please , for your brother 's sake if not for mine , do n't tell on me ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sure you can manage one evening ; if not for dinner , then drinks . |
| 19 | There is an emerging argument here , if not for chastity , then at least for a prudent continence and a cool response to such favours , sexual or other , as the world may choose to offer . |
| 20 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is not as useless as Aristotelian logic and can lead , if not to knowledge of necessary causes and natures , then to something worthwhile nevertheless . |
| 22 | The mounting cost to the nation of State benefits pointed , if not to bankruptcy , at least to a dangerously unbalanced budget . |
| 23 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 24 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 25 | Now that we have become accustomed to reading about , if not to eating , such unconventional combinations of foods as duck foie gras with turnips in a sweet-sour sauce composed of wine vinegar , sugar , sherry and port , plus the odd 30 grammes of truffles ; paupiettes of crayfish garnished with leaves of Brussels sprouts ; lobster mould with a sauce of carrots and port blended in turn with a sauce américaine , Pomiane 's innovations do n't sound very audacious . |
| 26 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 27 | It has been suggested above that , in view of the clear statement in the and the unsatisfactory nature of Mustakimzade 's argument , Turkish tradition has been guilty at least of inconsistency , if not of error , in doing so . |
| 28 | Thus , the policy context , within which the redundancies took place and which older workers experienced in the labour market , often for the first time in twenty or more years , was one of unconcern if not of antagonism to their special needs . |
| 29 | A reader-response experiment is reported in association with thought experiments , a method which allows discussion , if not of truth , then at least of validity and illustration . |
| 30 | The first is a survival if not of feudalism ( although in Northumberland it is exactly that ) then of early modern social relations . |