Example sentences of "[conj] not [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The extent to which this can be done , and , further , whether or not attainment in mathematics is significantly affected by this difference , is unknown .
2 He is also uncertain about whether or not contracts in which he hopes to sell computers costing several thousand pounds need to be in writing .
3 They do not apply to the mens rea of the offence and can certainly shed no light upon whether or not belief in consent must be reasonable .
4 On May 9 the KDP and the PUK had issued a joint communiqué in which they declared that the elections should be " a factor of unity and not disunity in our ranks " , that the results of the elections should be accepted and that " all armed manifestations " , particularly on election day , should be forbidden .
5 A. C. Benson was Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , and not Magdalen in Oxford .
6 California 's philosophy underpinning its seismic codes holds that a building should not be damaged in a minor quake , should suffer no more than minor structural damage in a moderate quake and not collapse in a major quake .
7 He revealed that the poet 's connection with and knowledge of the primitive were only beginnings and not ends in themselves .
8 These days they tend to think that , something you should save , and not waste in the garden .
9 The problem in terms purely of resourcing is if , if one does n't look after the not so seriously mentally ill they very rapidly c become the very seriously mentally ill with considerable financial resourcing problems and also enormous manpower problems because they do then tend to need twenty four hour close supervision nursing and not care in the community which can be done on a part-time basis and the implications of that are frightening .
10 However , the excellent turn-out for the A.G.M. indicates interest , if not pride in the affairs and day-to-day running of our Village which is mellowing nicely with each year .
11 What could explain the dual use of words like ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ if not resemblance in the things of which they were used ?
12 Then came death from a wasting disease such as took his scavvy parents , if not death in a rumble with some other undercity gang or with habbers from above , better armed though not wise in the ways of the drekzone …
13 Literacy , too , has the potential to generate logic and scepticism — but not literacy in general , only that form of it which developed in classical Greece .
14 The as yet unnamed company will compete for contracts from high technology companies , but not ones in the computer industry because of the competition this would create with IBM .
15 The Victorians understood ‘ The environment ’ to mean the background to human activity , in particular , industrial activity — a subject of concern to public health inspectors and philanthropists , but not society in general .
16 Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) .
17 The ‘ tax timing option ’ is available for shares but not futures in the USA and UK .
18 So he said erm , well in that case , he said erm , you were walking together but not arm in arm ?
19 ‘ did drive ( or ride on ) ‘ Or ride on ’ includes any pillion passenger , but not passengers in any sidecar per regulation 3 ( 1 ) of the above regulations .
20 Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) .
21 Roman Catholics could be tolerated but not pseudo-Romanists in the guise of Anglo-Catholics .
22 You can assign benefits but not burdens in English law , but the intention is that the purchaser will pay the debts , and that is an end of the matter .
23 K ap is true because in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you believe that you are sitting reading , and the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading are either worlds in which you are standing/kneeling/lying reading or worlds in which you are sitting knitting/watching TV , etc. , but not worlds in which you happen to be asleep dreaming that you are sitting reading .
24 There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region .
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