Sentence examples for if not ideal from inspiring English sources

There is an acceptable if not ideal alternative.

And in the Mozart as elsewhere, the blend was, if not ideal, nevertheless better in Fisher.

Conditions are improving, says Mr Vasella, and are now tolerable, if not ideal.

The weather around North America this April has been mostly tolerable if not ideal.

Diversity will likely produce an outcome that, if not ideal, will at least be acceptably neutral for many.

Yet there are points in your career when it may be necessary, even if not ideal, to skip a vacation.

A more sensible partnership---if not ideal---would have been with Microsoft.

Greg Archer: Would you say you had an ideal, if not the ideal work environment?

"This would be a start, even if it's not ideal," says Arredando.

"Users tend to use the word selected by the wizard even if it is not ideal, because they don't know any better.

Our natural tendency is to ask for help from the people we know well, even if they're not ideal for the job.