Example sentences of "[coord] not [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital equipment ( except in expanding lines like cement ) and , to a large extent , labour employed , remain constant whether or not producing at full capacity . |
| 2 | It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care . |
| 3 | Mr. Richards did not seek to support that view and it is clearly contrary to or not adopted in other writings : see , for example , Francis Mann , Foreign Affairs in English Courts ( 1986 ) ; C. Warbrick , ‘ The New British Policy on Recognition of Governments ’ ( 1981 ) 30 I.C.L.Q. 568 ; and indeed the general tenor of Professor Brownlie 's work itself . |
| 4 | The intrusion of these emotions into a relationship , whether or not related to sexual issues , is responsible for a good many sexual problems which are based on them , not directly but through decline in the quality of the relationship itself . |
| 5 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 6 | The XII Tables — whether or not modelled on Greek legislation — provided Rome with a written constitution of the Greek type . |
| 7 | And building society , anybody who has a building society account prior to ninety one two if they had n't income really i they were silly to have money in the building society account because they were having tax deducted but could n't get it back and at the same time as the independent taxation they changed the er tax system for building societies and banks which meant that banks and building societies were then deducted tax at the standard rate of twenty five percent and it could be refunded or repaid or not deducted in certain circumstances , so back to your question , anybody who has money in a building society now , or is n't taxable , should ask the building society not to deduct tax , as they 're entitled to do , fill a form and , and where people can state that they do n't , they 're not liable to pay tax , building societies and banks will not now deduct income tax . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no ground for disturbing the award as the arbitrators and the umpire were all " experts " and it was evidently the intention of the parties that they should settle the value and not act as formal arbitrators . |
| 9 | ‘ We have always said if we are going to be successful you have just got to try and keep winning and not worry about other results . ’ |
| 10 | Butland seems to have failed to appreciate that in the government reforms the general practitioner is the purchaser of services and the family health services authority 's role is to facilitate this and not to act as Big Brother . |
| 11 | For Gandhi , particular religions are necessary to convey what it might mean to speak of the one , true and perfect Religion which is beyond predication and not realized within finite existence . |
| 12 | It would be a mistake , in Gandhi 's view , to allow ahi sā to become a fetish , and not to kill in certain circumstances could be regarded as a form of hi sā rather than ahi sā . |
| 13 | Perhaps we could start by banishing that anachronism with which otherwise good arguments have been blemished , and not refer to mass consumption of manufactured goods before the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Scots per day … that all servants that shall be found to be fourty days out of service after they Leave their former Masters and not engaged with ane oyr. master shall pay ten merks Scots of fine , and that every woman that shall be found out of service as above to pay five merks Scots of fine … " 1729 . |
| 15 | Mrs Rubinstein 's brief from the health authority was to make recommendations , not to apportion blame and not to deal with specific cases . |
| 16 | The Labour and Socialist International was not prepared to recommend the formation of United Fronts in individual countries but issued the following reply to the Comintern : We feel it to be our duty to call upon the Parties affiliated to the LSI to hold their hands if possible and not to deal with Communist offers of this kind in the individual countries until the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International has defined its attitude towards the new platform of the Comintern . |
| 17 | Any feminism which does not also begin with an assumption of one human race , composed of female and male , black , white , yellow , short , tall and so forth , each equally human and not bound by preconceived roles , is not compatible with the Christian faith . ’ |
| 18 | This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units . |
| 19 | From Moscow , Mr Gorbachev is believed to have given personal orders that his troops should stay firmly in their East German barracks during recent demonstrations and not respond to local provocation . |
| 20 | ( soldier-statesman like the joint chiefs of staff and the Upper echelons of the services ) ; and , a political directorate ( composed mainly of political outsiders nominated by the other two elites and not peopled by professional politicians ) . |
| 21 | As a researcher , it was very important to be sensitive to these problems and consistently reassure social workers that I was not undertaking any semi-official enquiry , and not looking for particular cases that ‘ go wrong ’ . |
| 22 | A wooden disc box from Supplier Action : not a greenhouse gas producer and not made from tropical hardwood . |
| 23 | effective , permanent , and not beset by secondary effluent problems , a drawback of wet scrubbing and condensation techniques ; but there are disadvantages . |
| 24 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 25 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 26 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 27 | some sedatives ( to be used with caution and not recommended for regular use ) . |
| 28 | Provided the new cross did the job well , it could establish a novel niche market and not compete with existing half-breds . |
| 29 | Conservationists believe the section of river has a particular geomorphological importance and want it to be allowed to meander naturally and not controlled by artificial flood defences . |
| 30 | The theoretical wheel load was about 20 tons , but since the wheels were in pairs , and not suspended on flexible bogeys , unless the rails were level , the wheels on the higher level might be carrying the load for the pair . |