Example sentences of "[conj] not [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For Hilton , as for the Cloud-author , the road to this Jerusalem is " ronne by desires & not by pases of feet " .
2 All aspects of the influence of photography throughout society will be examined , commerce and industry as much as artistic use of photography and of the divide in photography , be it real or not between the many genres of photography .
3 Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement .
4 Difficulties arise when individuals are asked to develop , qualities which they do not possess or which they have previously dismissed as irrelevant or not worth possessing .
5 697 , 739–740 , involving a local authority and one or more other parties ( whether or not including a local authority ) .
6 This can enable those who , because of mental illness , may pose a significant risk to their own health or safety or the safety of other people and who are limited in self-awareness , to accept treatment or care , whether or not including medication .
7 For official purposes your working life is between 16 and 60 whether you are actually employed or not during those years .
8 It works through meanings , certainly , or not without meanings in the ordinary sense , and fuses the old and obliterated and the trite , the current , and the new and surprising , the most ancient and the most civilised mentality .
9 And he knew that he could n't continue avoiding her — or not without catching pneumonia , he thought , and smiled at his own joke .
10 It gives you plenty of time to be certain about whether the food suits you or not without confusing the issue .
11 I ca n't really judge if you 're being selfish or not without knowing more about your circumstances .
12 Or not without a bit of help .
13 Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ?
14 It suggested that submission obtained by threats other than of violence might suffice for rape and held that it should be left to the jury , with adequate direction from the judge , to make up its mind whether or not on the facts of each case the woman had truly consented .
15 ie. Whether DCs referencing the module are to be automatically assessed as agreed or not on behalf of the module manager .
16 I do n't know whether our colleagues would agree or not on that .
17 no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind
18 Yet North said he did not remember that conversation , either at the hearings or later ; nor did he remember the memo in question , or not with any conviction .
19 A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy .
20 A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes :
21 As Toni Pickard has saliently pointed out , it is possible for a man to ascertain whether a woman is consenting or not with minimal effort .
22 Tallboy was at a loss to know whether the big man was mocking him or not with these innocent tastes .
23 We may or not with the squad system but I intend to play all my cards . ’
24 The world 's top securities market regulators , who met recently in Venice , cited the need to reconcile financial statements to local accounting standards as a significant factor in any company 's decision on which markets to target or not for an international offering of new shares .
25 And if some did , the answer was No — or Not for more than a week .
26 Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children .
27 Thirdly , the structure and organization of services , the means of funding care services , whether by insurance or by state funds , and the mix of providers , whether public sector or not for profit based , all contribute to the diversity of care systems .
28 I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway .
29 No Mrs Drubb , or not for much longer .
30 a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ;
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