Example sentences of "if [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the charm of a sale is that the financial result is in itself a sort of critical judgement , reflecting even if not defining the taste and mood of the moment . |
| 2 | Philip Roth 's article refers to this issue in referring to the later book If not now , when ? — Levi 's ‘ Eastern ’ , an adventure story of Jewish partisans during the closing months of the war , led by the Communist fighter-fiddler Gedaleh . |
| 3 | The motive behind If not now , when ? seems more narrowly tendentious — and consequently less liberating to the writer — than the impulse that generates the autobiographical works . ’ |
| 4 | Levi 's words to Roth about the adventure story If not now , when ? bring to mind the art of the Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel , who rode with Budyonny 's Red Cavalry after the Revolution , through scenes of hardship and atrocity . |
| 5 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 6 | If not a provisional card another way of permission to be seen properly at meaningful auditions . |
| 7 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 8 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If not , not . |
| 11 | The needs of pub management in the 1980s have been hard to contain in pubs originally segregated into saloon and public bars , if not into further distinct spaces . |
| 12 | However , to entrap our pub tradition within a rigid set of rules and guidelines is at best to condemn it to becoming an anachronism , if not to extinguish it altogether . |
| 13 | The atmosphere was , however , cordial , if not convivial , and the talk was of what grandchildren were up to or what Dr So-and-so said about this or that particular problem . |
| 14 | If you do find something better , great , if not , stick around . ’ |
| 15 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 16 | If not during a period , then adequate contraceptive measures must have been taken since the last period , such as the pill , or sheath , or cap with spermicide , used on every occasion . |
| 17 | If not , contact SCODA Standing Conference on Drug Abuse at They have a full list of local services throughout the country . |
| 18 | If not you will need to choose a builder an agent , architect or surveyor will help you with this , to give you an estimate . |
| 19 | If not do n't buy it . |
| 20 | Jung ( 1964 ) has described these hidden facets as being creatively generative , but possessed of danger in any confrontation and difficult if not impossible to harness ; for they are in effect alternative domains of power . |
| 21 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 22 | I 'm nothing if not consistent . |
| 23 | She 'd robbed those stolen kisses of their delight , and if not ever in love , then why , what the hell had she meant ? |
| 24 | By this time , he was in the second phase of his Jewish formation - that of the Mishnah , and attending his Yeshiva with some diligence , if not zest . |
| 25 | But there was a degree of comprehension , if not agreement , from the professor . |
| 26 | Or if not then perhaps later as his mother — always self-conscious as to the difference between herself and her more Westernised sisters-in-law gave vent to the feelings of inadequacy they unconsciously inspired ? |
| 27 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 28 | ‘ If not the pieces . ’ |
| 29 | If not , how can you change it ? |
| 30 | Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious . |