Example sentences of "[conj] not [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the skinhead outercoat ( along with the sheepskins ) & not the Crombie . |
| 2 | But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection . |
| 3 | Where not a habitation stood before , |
| 4 | The Court 's competence has been accepted to cover such matters as , for instance , Sunday trading , working hours , the equality of the sexes and whether or not a road should be built through the English countryside at Twyford Down in Hampshire . |
| 5 | Experience teaches.a lot as to whether or not a phenomenon is likely to be a genuine signal or background noise , but there is still a twilight zone , the tantalising occurrences which are probably noise but might possibly be signal . |
| 6 | Parliament discarded the phrase ‘ those whose minds are open to such immoral influence ’ , with its overtones of whether or not a gentleman would let his servants read such and such a book , since the words ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ already carried the sense of ‘ immoral influence ’ , together with a tacit assumption that writings or other works of the imagination could have the effect of tending to make men wicked . |
| 7 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
| 8 | At the end of the day you are either a sticker person or not a sticker person . |
| 9 | I then isolated four variables that would be crucial in deciding whether or not a choice was being made : ( a ) the individuals in question ( the potential recruits ) with their existing predispositions ( interests , values , hopes , fears , etc. ) ; ( b ) and ( c ) the alternatives ( life in the Unification Church or continuing in the wider society ) ; and ( d ) the social context within which the decision was reached ( the Unification workshop ) . |
| 10 | If there is doubt , therefore , as to whether or not a document should be stamped , and if so with what duty , the safest course is to submit it for adjudication . |
| 11 | It is by no means rare for there to be confusion about whether or not a dismissal has actually taken place . |
| 12 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 13 | In the other task , subjects had to judge whether or not a sentence followed appropriately from the preceding context . |
| 14 | when you say the entire procedure , would that of included or not a solicitors letter which is set out ? |
| 15 | If the referee has any doubt as to whether or not a try would have been scored he can only award a penalty , exactly the decision in the final . |
| 16 | Some of the early cases seem to turn upon a consideration of whether or not a payment which it is sought to recover was made voluntarily or not . |
| 17 | Also , in determining whether or not a relationship is fiduciary the court will have regard to the substance of the transaction and not its form . |
| 18 | However , as an illustration of the significance of the different approaches to public finance , we consider the recent debate in the UK about whether or not a poll tax ( ‘ community charge ’ ) should replace a system of domestic rates . |
| 19 | Trials at least provide a statistically acceptable basis for deciding whether or not a treatment is any good . ’ |
| 20 | So , for example , if the Director General of Fair Trading was considering whether or not a lender 's use of a persuasive clause such as that suggested on page 39 constituted fair trading practice , we think that he might well recommend that use of such a clause should be conditional on use of the industry-wide non-profit insurance scheme . |
| 21 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 22 | ‘ A banker without money is like a doctor without pills ’ , commented American banker George Wood some 25 years ago , but a recent question for some banks recently was whether or not a judge in Chancery would dispense a ruling in their favour . |
| 23 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 24 | But was it Woolworths or Marks who had that little slogan , was it , nothing , not a was it not a penny , nothing more than a penny or not a thruppence |
| 25 | Whether or not a contract is of a personal nature is determined on objective grounds and depends on all the circumstances having regard to the nature of the contract and the subject matter of the rights to be assigned and there is no general rule . |
| 26 | The guidance recognises that if an accountant ( not necessarily the reporting accountant ) is already involved in the management of a trust , and if trust accounts are prepared annually , then that may influence whether or not a test is done on that trust . |
| 27 | An action purporting to have been commenced against a person who is dead at its commencement is treated as if it had been commenced against his estate , whether or not a grant of representation had been issued at its commencement ( Ord 5 , r 8(3) ) . |
| 28 | Hot water is even more scarce and depends on the weather , or whether or not a fuse has blown . |
| 29 | The current basis for determining whether or not a person is mentally handicapped is the IQ test . |
| 30 | A second argument designed to show that neutrality is chimerical claims that whether or not a person acts neutrally depends on the base line relative to which his behaviour is judged , and that there are always different base lines leading to conflicting judgments and no rational grounds to prefer one to the others . |