Example sentences of "[conj] not [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 All aspects of the influence of photography throughout society will be examined , commerce and industry as much as artistic use of photography and of the divide in photography , be it real or not between the many genres of photography .
2 Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement .
3 Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ?
4 It suggested that submission obtained by threats other than of violence might suffice for rape and held that it should be left to the jury , with adequate direction from the judge , to make up its mind whether or not on the facts of each case the woman had truly consented .
5 We may or not with the squad system but I intend to play all my cards . ’
6 I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway .
7 Between the feet are the remains of a green parrot — whether immolated or not at the death of his mistress is uncertain — but it still retains its plumage ; it is a far less repulsive-looking object than the larger bi-ped .
8 Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner .
9 Or not at the beginning .
10 Examples of such additional directions are for amendment of pleadings , further and better particulars , discovery by a defendant excused from this step under Ord 25 , r8 , more medical or other experts than Ord 25 , r8 allows , trial out of London or not at the trial centre for the District Registry in which the action is proceeding .
11 ‘ The current system means I 'm having to tell players now whether I want them or not at the most important point in the season , ’ he reasoned .
12 This introduction to the subject enables pupils to make a more informed choice to continue studying Chemistry or not at the end of S2 .
13 ‘ It is no use ’ , she stated ‘ letting the poor come and go as they think , to be helped or not as the charitable choose . ’
14 What of Leeds though I hear you cry , or not as the case maybe .
15 but you 're saying in , in , in short , are you , that erm , that in the present instance erm the obligation was put on the United Kingdom government which has sort , it may have succeeded or not as the case maybe , discharge the obligation by in effect erm subject to the subsidiary provisions which you 've both make reference and leaving it to er regulate these matters
16 The jurors only had to consider whether the woman had consented or not to the intercourse taking place .
17 Dr Edward Fenech-Adami , Maltese Prime Minister , said of his country 's announcement last night : ‘ Whether it is satisfactory or not to the UN Security Council has to be decided by them . ’
18 Do you think that they erm were an asset or or or not to the actual community when they ac I mean erm looking at how things were in prior to the flats being built and and
19 Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence .
20 Section 433 is concerned with the admissibility in evidence of a special class of document derived from insolvency in , as the section provides ‘ any proceedings ’ ( whether or not under the Insolvency Act 1986 or the Theft Act 1968 ) .
21 In a sense it does n't matter if Callinicos ' defence of Marxism is registered or not by the legion of Post-isms and -ists which form the undergrowth of contemporary cultural politics .
22 This distinction was roughly mirrored in a major division in Europe 's economic geography ( which was also , outside England , one between those directly affected or not by the French Revolution and the changes it brought ) .
23 Putting aside these cases of major civil strife it is possible to discern some consistency in the pattern of apparently arbitrary economic decisions taken by governments , whether or not in the form of ‘ great leaps ’ .
24 Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions .
25 Whether he or she is welcome or not in the situation ( and , according to circumstance and the individual part of each member in it , the " Welfare " will be seen as a saving and succouring agency , an interfering nuisance or an outright threat ) , the social worker is usually seen as in a position of some power — as in a position to alter the situation or at least to make some expert attempt to alter it .
26 ‘ The second is that they 're not all beautiful — or not in the way you mean .
27 I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’
28 a ) the remuneration of , and any expenses incurred by , listing officers in carrying out their functions under the Act ( including the remuneration and expenses of persons , whether or not in the service of the Crown , to assist them ) ;
29 Erm I do n't know whether we had gremlins in there or er or not in the end I really could n't decide actually to be honest .
30 The Law Society published guidelines in question and answer form as to accounting for commission received on 23 October 1991 in 88 L S Gazette 33. ( b ) Professional undertakings An undertaking given by a solicitor in the course of his practice or by his employee on his behalf or by a solicitor qua solicitor ( whether or not in the course of his practice ) and made with the intent that it should be relied upon is binding in law upon that solicitor personally .
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