Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , well except that it would , it would happen to some extent , I mean the key is whether you , whether or not when a complaint comes in whether you can assess that it 's likely to go |
| 2 | Always used to receiving admiring glances from men , Laura had n't known whether to be pleased or not when the doctor had completely ignored her — clearly having eyes only for Julie . |
| 3 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 4 | Well mister you ca n't tell whether you 're married or not so the feminist version is ms . |
| 5 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 6 | Never buy a sleeping bag without first finding out whether or not all the drawcords can be pulled from the inside and the zip can be pulled freely from inside too . |
| 7 | It is open to debate whether or not all the designs traditionally ascribed to Persia are in fact Persian in origin , and there is some evidence to suggest that a number may have had earlier links with Anatolia , India or Central Asia . |
| 8 | But er I do n't really remember erm people going out to work much ex except , I suppose you 'd call them the lower classes , or not really the working classes because er , but the lower classes they would take in washing . |
| 9 | Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector . |
| 10 | Comprehensive reorganization in the 1950s was therefore in Oxfordshire a pragmatic and local , and not yet a political , issue . |
| 11 | They discussed the rudiments of the Charleston , that still over-sophisticated exercise in dancing , a world apart from the slow foxtrot and not yet a familiar of Irish Hunt Balls . |
| 12 | This seems to be inconsistent with the proposition that a higher standard applies where the director possesses relevant skills , but is presumably explicable on the basis that the higher standard relates only to distinct forms of professional expertise , such as that of the actuary or the physician referred to by Romer J , and not where the experience or expertise that the director has acquired is that of a business manager . |
| 13 | In extremity , with nowhere to go , and not even a believed theory to wear or hold his mind 's hand ( ‘ what will you run away with ? ’ ) , |
| 14 | No reply and not even a hint of a smile . |
| 15 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 16 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 18 | There was complete silence and not even a breath of wind disturbed the peace . |
| 19 | The Flag Cichlid is Mesonauta insignis , but the American Flag fish is quite different , and not even a Cichlid . |
| 20 | ‘ And not even a Corbett . ’ |
| 21 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |
| 22 | Fazal Mahmood ( 12 for 99 ) and Mahmood Hussain were the Waqar and Akram of their day — though dissimilar in method , being orthodox seamers — and not even a second-innings 7 for 56 by Wardle could save the Old Country . |
| 23 | No calculated glances , no abrupt addresses , no stratagems , just the easy politeness , he thought , of the worldly gentleman and not even a sly request for a hot stone or a late candle to his room . |
| 24 | A light touch and not even a mouse could have scuttled through that ballroom without setting off the alarm all over the house — and the city . |
| 25 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 26 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 27 | The model for Marx himself was the Paris Commune of March-May 1871 , though he subsequently dismissed it as merely an uprising , and not even a socialist one ( Lichtheim 1964 , pp. 112–21 ) . |
| 28 | After a brief goodnight and not even a peck on the cheek he looked down , then said , ‘ I 'll be in touch some time , Sarella . ’ |
| 29 | Oh , the S backwards , the L backwards , the backwards and not even a I in there . |
| 30 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |