Sentence examples for basically if not from inspiring English sources

"It's basically, if not stopped dead in its tracks, pretty much close to it," said Richard Cortright, a managing director in the utility-analysis group at Standard and Poor's.

The first is basically untenable if not unfeasible.

"That basically censors, if not bans, legitimate advertising to adults".

"I was thinking that once I got out, I would have this on my résumé and basically have, if not my choice of jobs, at least some reasonable options.

The predictions made here for the BTEX case were basically correct, if not perfect.

"And on the other hand, you have the Republicans who [are] basically LGBT-antagonistic, if not hating, and yet more gun-friendly".

So basically, if it's not a problem, it's not a problem?

Coleman: Some people just have a really adverse reaction to a holiday that basically, if you're not part of a couple, you're not part of the holiday.

Basically if people don't like you, don't change.

" 'Forward-leaning' seems to be basically if someone has not crossed the bridge, we will push them forward, we will tip them over the edge," he said.

Basically, if children are not allowed to help their parents harvest they could end up "in a bar with European tourists".