Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or not without a bit of help . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Between the feet are the remains of a green parrot — whether immolated or not at the death of his mistress is uncertain — but it still retains its plumage ; it is a far less repulsive-looking object than the larger bi-ped . |
| 4 | This introduction to the subject enables pupils to make a more informed choice to continue studying Chemistry or not at the end of S2 . |
| 5 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 6 | A variety of causes can lie behind the poor performer 's difficulty — low threshold to boredom , poor verbal facility in professional discussions with adults , inadequate job knowledge ( whether or not as a result of inadequate initial training ) or stress . |
| 7 | In a sense it does n't matter if Callinicos ' defence of Marxism is registered or not by the legion of Post-isms and -ists which form the undergrowth of contemporary cultural politics . |
| 8 | The Law Society published guidelines in question and answer form as to accounting for commission received on 23 October 1991 in 88 L S Gazette 33. ( b ) Professional undertakings An undertaking given by a solicitor in the course of his practice or by his employee on his behalf or by a solicitor qua solicitor ( whether or not in the course of his practice ) and made with the intent that it should be relied upon is binding in law upon that solicitor personally . |
| 9 | a ) the remuneration of , and any expenses incurred by , listing officers in carrying out their functions under the Act ( including the remuneration and expenses of persons , whether or not in the service of the Crown , to assist them ) ; |
| 10 | Putting aside these cases of major civil strife it is possible to discern some consistency in the pattern of apparently arbitrary economic decisions taken by governments , whether or not in the form of ‘ great leaps ’ . |
| 11 | The chains generally concentrated in particular regions , although not to the extent of local monopoly . |
| 12 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 13 | Revamped neofascist parties , such as the DVU , also rely upon primarily electoral strategies , although not to the exclusion of courting skinheads or expediting violence . |
| 14 | The media were also out in force , although not with the blessing of the Thompson family or their friends and associates . |
| 15 | There may be services rendered by the police which , although not within the scope of their absolute obligations to the public may yet fall within their powers , and in such cases public policy does not forbid their performance . |
| 16 | If we take reciprocal altruism seriously , method ( ii ) might conceivably operate in animals , although not in the case of age queues ; methods ( i ) and ( iii ) could not . |
| 17 | He recognized that the strength of the Swiss franc would be an important factor in developing other European stores , and he knew that Geneva , although not in the forefront of the fashion world , attracted a number of the internationally rich and famous . |
| 18 | Equally absurd in this context — although not in the domain of syntactic knowledge — would be the Chomskyan argument that Shakespeare et al. |
| 19 | Gable replies that to be honest he 's surprised , although not by the attitude of ‘ the old guard conservative group of three or four London reviewers ’ . |
| 20 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 21 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 22 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 23 | The firm is able to act within the FSA but unlike traditional lead advisers ( i.e. the merchant banks ) is governed by an Institute and not as a member of the Stock Exchange or Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 24 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 25 | Adorno preferred instead to see fetishism as part of an objective social totality and not as a characteristic of human subjectivity ( Frisby 1985 , pp. 233–72 ) . |
| 26 | A good relationship with one parent may , for example , be protective against the effects of mental illness in the other parent , if it enables the child to see the ill parent 's behaviour for what it is , and not as a rejection of the child or caused by the child . |
| 27 | A lecturer normally owns the copyright in any book or article he writes because he is primarily employed as a teacher and not as a writer of books and articles , even though his employer may encourage this . |
| 28 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 29 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 30 | When this practice was changed , recorded levels of property crime soared : but , obviously , as a consequence of changes in policing and not as a result of changes in crime . |