Example sentences of "if not [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In South Africa , some NGO 's have attempted to build community responsiveness , if not accountability into their services . |
| 2 | Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX . |
| 3 | Going down , if not stop for the thing . |
| 4 | It was a dignified response if not departure with Spurs chief executive Terry Venables forced to come clean over the Shreeves situation after a media leak . |
| 5 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 6 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 7 | So the man could calculate exactly what he was earning you know , hour by hour if not day by day and week by week . |
| 8 | However , the excellent turn-out for the A.G.M. indicates interest , if not pride in the affairs and day-to-day running of our Village which is mellowing nicely with each year . |
| 9 | The generally utilitarian function , if not rationale of medieval universities ( Cobban 1975 ) , is acknowledged even by those such as Veblen ( 1957 , p. 3 ) , who argued that the best principles for academic endeavour are ‘ an Idle curiosity , and the Instinct of Workmanship ’ , and provides ammunition for Bell ( 1971 ) and others who contend that the liberal tradition is based largely on an historical myth . |
| 10 | Born , apparently , in 1890 in Nghe An province of central Vietnam , Ho 's father was at least an acquaintance if not friend of the veteran nationalist Phan Boi Chau . |
| 11 | What could explain the dual use of words like ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ if not resemblance in the things of which they were used ? |
| 12 | Israel remained determined to retain military control if not sovereignty over all Eretz Israel/Palestine and to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state . |
| 13 | Then came death from a wasting disease such as took his scavvy parents , if not death in a rumble with some other undercity gang or with habbers from above , better armed though not wise in the ways of the drekzone … |
| 14 | The term abstraction , of course , covers a multitude of if not sins at least variations of severity , from the wholly recognizable to the utterly ‘ pure ’ ( one stroller to another recently on the Battery Park City esplanade in lower Manhattan , noticing R.M. Fisher 's fanciful gateway sculpture : ‘ Oh look ! |
| 15 | There was increasing pressure from other European countries for access to EC markets if not membership of the EC [ see below ] . |