Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most difficult decisions he was faced with in recent years was whether or not to sell the foods business , particularly as it involved disposing of Cadbury 's Cocoa , the product with which his great-grandfather launched the company . |
| 2 | But this is only available where the council or inspector has either misinterpreted the law or not followed the proper procedures . |
| 3 | For example , in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing . |
| 4 | The Attorney General 's spokesman said a decision on whether or not to appeal the sentence would be made ‘ urgently ’ . |
| 5 | The Attorney General 's spokesman said a decision on whether or not to appeal the sentence would be made ‘ urgently ’ . |
| 6 | A directive is addressed to member states within the EC but it is left to each individual government to decide whether or not to implement the directive . |
| 7 | Knowing or not knowing the title of the passage had a significant effect on recall , as did word order . |
| 8 | The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project . |
| 9 | The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project . |
| 10 | Councillors from the Forest of Dean came to visit the site at Tidenham Chase , before deciding whether or not to allow the travellers to stay there . |
| 11 | Moreover — another fruitful borrowing from physics — Pasteur discovered in 1848 that chemically identical substances could be physically distinct , e.g. rotating or not rotating the plane of polarised light . |
| 12 | If these can be detected early enough , then women can decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy . |
| 13 | The two-part referendum asked voters to choose whether or not to retain the existing electoral system , and to express a preference for one of four alternative systems . |
| 14 | Ultimately , whether or not to take the test must be the decision of the individual . |
| 15 | There are skills of every kind to be learned , from changing a nappy to knowing whether or not to call the doctor , when to teach the facts of life , and how to develop the parent-child relationship during adolescence . |
| 16 | An innovative attempt to distinguish between the more objectionable forms of cheque-book journalism and the literature which makes a significant contribution to the culture or contributes to the prevention of crime or the rehabilitation of offenders is being made in Victoria , Australia , where the Crimes ( Confiscation of Profits ) Amendment Act 1991 ( Vic. ) , although expanding the concept of ‘ benefit ’ to include the profits of criminal expression , will provide a court with discretion to decide whether or not to treat the profits as a ‘ benefit ’ for the purposes of the Act . |
| 17 | It rejected the majority view in Attwood that , in employment cases , there existed a third consideration viz : it is for the court to decide in its discretion whether or not to treat the two restraints as separate or not . |
| 18 | And Lawrence whether he meant to or not banged the ball in short , er round about leg stump , he sort of half went to glances did n't he ? |
| 19 | We have a choice : either accept a UK transmission fee only from the BBC ( in lieu of the usual Channel Four model of a full commission ) or not make the programmes . |
| 20 | There are , however , certain risks involved in delegating to people other than the patient the power to make what may be life-or-death decisions — for example , the decision to discontinue certain treatment , to control symptoms , or not to resuscitate the patient . |
| 21 | The effect of ending the rule will be to give retailers freedom to choose whether or not to charge the same , whether payment is made by credit card or cash . ’ |
| 22 | All of this unavoidably suggested that the ‘ central question in the debates now under way in the country is the question of recognising or not recognising the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction , and hence in restructuring ’ . |
| 23 | You ca n't put the onus on guidebook descriptions , the final decision on whether or not to do the route must rest with the judgement and common sense of the individual on the spot . |
| 24 | So it 's either setting or not setting the weights and in the N tuple rule all we do is in fact set the weights . |
| 25 | Either paragraph , if satisfied , suffices to open the door to an exercise of discretion as to whether or not to order the return of the child in question . |
| 26 | They suggested that any objections should be sent to our County Councillor immediately as there is a meeting arranged for next Tuesday to decide whether or not to close the court . |
| 27 | In 1898 the Corporation was debating whether or not to close the Tubwell Row pump even though an analyst had condemned it as ‘ absolutely unfit for drinking purposes ’ . |
| 28 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 29 | Erm , what other factor , other than whether they have waiver of premium or not affects the allocation to units . |
| 30 | Certainly , it is not easy to see on what basis the magistrate could have taken that fact into account when deciding whether or not to commit the applicant ; for the point only arises if there was sufficient evidence to justify the committal , in which event the magistrate was bound under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to commit the applicant . |