Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The valuer advises whether or not the price agreed for the house is realistic , taking into account its repair and condition and the property market in general . |
2 | In laying down the offences , s20 distinguishes according to whether or not the price indication was misleading when it was given . |
3 | Whether or not the decision was motivated by tenderness towards motorists is hard to tell , but there was certainly some logic in keeping offences of negligence out of the ‘ unlawful act ’ doctrine when a separate head of manslaughter by gross negligence already existed . |
4 | Whether or not there is an agreement must depend on the facts of the particular case , and whether or not the decision of Vaisey J. was correct I consider that the facts of the present case , including as they do the letters of 12 June and 15 September 1986 , are not consistent with an agreement on the lines suggested . |
5 | They are deciding whether or not the decision was properly arrived at , taking into account all relevant factors , and not taking into account irrelevant ones . |
6 | The question for the courts was whether or not the decision was one at which the individual official could reasonably have arrived . |
7 | In contrast , an unavoidable cost is one that is going to be incurred whether or not the decision related to a particular opportunity is accepted or rejected . |
8 | Once we received the decision that went against us , I made it quite clear , at the full city council meeting , that we would seek the views of our legal advisors as to whether or not the decision was flawed . |
9 | Sometimes we will wish to use the add instruction without modification by the index register , so we need an extra bit set aside in all such instructions , to specify whether or not the modification of the operand field by means of the index register is to take place . |
10 | Another contributor considers that the " proofs " gained from " careful sifting and weighing of evidence " enable a judgement as to whether or not the scholar is faced with a " capital crime " . |
11 | ‘ I trust there 'll be an enquiry as to whether or not the boiler was faulty ? ’ asked David , as he assisted one of the two casualties to her feet . |
12 | These would be examples 1 and 4 , where the party who carried the plaintiff 's goods had also issued the bill of lading or had entered into the freight contract with the shipper , whether or not the shipper was the plaintiff . |
13 | Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract . |
14 | Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit . |
15 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
16 | The first presents the candidate with an unreal situation , and probably the most that will be learned is whether or not the candidate is good-natured enough to play silly games . |
17 | At a distance of 150pc , the distance modulus is 5.9 magnitudes providing a lower limit to the absolute magnitude of the companion of about 16 whether or not the candidate star is the binary companion . |
18 | Whether or not the Chairman of the KGB ( Victor Chebrikov ) , the Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Eduard Shevardnadze ) and the senior Party Secretary for defence production ( until July 1985 Grigori Romanov ) , have the formal status of permanent members , it is clear that they are in regular attendance , as very likely are the Chairman of the MVD ( Vitaliy Fedorchuk ) and the Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission ( Leonid Smirnov ) . |
19 | This will influence the teacher 's or therapist 's decision regarding whether or not the test is likely to be useful for a particular child and for a particular purpose . |
20 | Well ready or not the test is coming now . |
21 | It is clearly laid down in the Act that it is for them to consider whether or not the nuisance exists , whether or not it has been abated , and whether it still exists , and , if it does , it is for them to consider which of the requirements of the abatement notice are to be carried out or how otherwise the nuisance is to be abated . |
22 | Traditional catalogue studies considered success and failure of a catalogue consultation in terms of whether or not an item was in the catalogue and , if it was , whether or not the user managed to find it . |
23 | It may be questioned whether or not the user needs to retrieve all of the possible relevant documents for a specific query at any one point in time . |
24 | Regardless of whether or not the user carries out these checks , option 1.5.2 must be used by the designated approver during the approval process . |
25 | I remember wickedly making a note at one assembly of the number of times he spoke and believe it or not the total was sixty seven . |
26 | If you doubt it , try discussing with a lawyer the sensory perceptions of a pilot rotating an aircraft into a climbing attitude while increasing engine power and accelerating , and whether or not the pilot can believe he is pulling the aircraft right up on to its back . |
27 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
28 | By now , several more MPs were embroiled in the row over whether or not the Princess of Wales was dangerously underweight , and the death toll in the Cardiff fire had risen to four . |
29 | Whether or not the assessor 's criteria were exactly the same as Frances Stevens 's is neither here nor there . |
30 | At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players . |