Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] the government " in BNC.

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1 Whether or not the government could have intervened in the economy by adopting a more active regional policy , in order to reduce regional disparities and hence the North-South divide , is considered in Chapter 10 .
2 When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin .
3 Whether or not the Government facilitate that , it will tend to happen .
4 Would the Noble Minister clarify once and for all whether or not the Government are committed to free choice by parents in this matter ?
5 For I believe — strongly — that you , and not the Government , should be in charge of your life .
6 The outcome of such discussions should be popular decisions and popular demands ; and since in a democracy it is the people , and not the government or parliament , which is sovereign , it is then the business of government to accept and to implement the popular will .
7 They further argued that ‘ State ’ means the numerical collection of inhabitants in the geographical area and not the government or organs of government through which the state expresses its intentions .
8 Unfortunately it is only the voluntary agencies which are likely to take its message to heart — and not the government aid departments and World Bank ‘ experts ’ who need most to hear it .
9 It is significant that the regions that would be eligible to benefit from RECHAR are supporting the European Commission 's attitude and not the Government 's .
10 But they are supplied by the Institute and not the government .
11 But today the Education Secretary said the County Council was to blame and not the Government .
12 And if not the Government , then who ?
13 The NHS needed reform but not the government changes .
14 He said that the Government had only pledged itself to employ the successful barracks architects , but not the Government Offices architects .
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