The phrase "if not mostly" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to express a degree of uncertainty or hesitation in a statement. Here is an example: "I may have some doubts about the effectiveness of this new strategy, if not mostly because we haven't tested it extensively yet."
These people, many, if not mostly, dead, grace hipster T-shirts and college dorm walls, they are the heroes of not only dreamers and rebellious youth, but of great thinkers, organisers, leaders of those who see through the paternalistic dogma of authority, students who foresee greater and greater possibilities and take those visions to the streets, the schools, the courts and prisons.
Lemon contributes to the deeply disturbing narrative supported by our nation's rape culture that victims are partially, if not mostly, to blame for the violence they endured.
If Time Warner Cable had supplied the Internet modem service, then the Universal Service Fund tax on every bill, at 16% which is applied to various parts of your cell phone and wired phone charges, would be reduced, if not mostly eliminated.
The explosion of molecular imaging research over the last decade is partially, if not mostly, due to the increasingly wider availability of scanners dedicated to small animal studies.
It was then gradually recognized that the chaperones function often, if not mostly, in assemblies which have their own structure and dynamics [ 18, 30, 32, 57].
The low level of anti-proliferative activity of anti-CD19-MCC-DM1 in Ramos-CD21 clone 1 cells was partially, if not mostly, due to a naked antibody effect, which, unlike the MCC-DM1 conjugate, was less effective at high concentrations for reasons that are unclear.
"Even if they were not mostly in English, they still influenced how these quintessentially English poets imagined the interpretative potentialities of their own literary production," Bahr says.
OK – a good fistful of the EBacc five should set you up for A-levels, and a good fistful of A-levels might set you up for a good university, and a good degree might – just might – set you up for a job that uses a tiny bit of what you've spent 10 years learning (if it's not mostly redundant by then).
It's either love or hate, and if it isn't mostly hate, have your eyes, or mind, examined.
This in itself would take a lot of the wind out of the preceding couple of hours, if it hadn't mostly been taken out by Jake Gyllenhaal.
If Taylor didn't mostly do this pastiching well – "aborning" notwithstanding – it would feel suffocating, a bit like someone stuffing you with madeleines and then pouring linden tea down your throat afterwards to make sure that you'd got the point.
