Example sentences of "[coord] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For official purposes your working life is between 16 and 60 whether you are actually employed or not during those years . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether our colleagues would agree or not on that . |
| 3 | no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind |
| 4 | As Toni Pickard has saliently pointed out , it is possible for a man to ascertain whether a woman is consenting or not with minimal effort . |
| 5 | Tallboy was at a loss to know whether the big man was mocking him or not with these innocent tastes . |
| 6 | Yet North said he did not remember that conversation , either at the hearings or later ; nor did he remember the memo in question , or not with any conviction . |
| 7 | A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes : |
| 8 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 9 | Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children . |
| 10 | And if some did , the answer was No — or Not for more than a week . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 12 | ( 7 ) The members of a licensing board for an islands area or licensing division of an islands area shall be elected at a meeting of the council of the islands area to be held on a date between May 16 , 1977 and June 30 , 1977 to be determined by the council , and , in the case of subsequent elections of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 13 | Eliot , it seemed , would have us take Virgil on his terms , or not at all . |
| 14 | If it was wrong , it must be challenged by way of appeal or not at all . |
| 15 | Tonight a growing irritation at Moran 's compulsion to dominate , to have everything on his own terms or not at all , had hardened into a sudden decision to overturn the years and quit the house at once . |
| 16 | The Bradys would have to agree to hold it in their house or not at all . |
| 17 | Will you get a big weight loss this week , or will it come next week , or not at all ? |
| 18 | The reactions shown on the metabolic chart would proceed very slowly , or not at all , in the absence of enzymes . |
| 19 | It works particularly awkwardly for married women at any age , since they may be employed at quite a different level from their husbands , or not at all . |
| 20 | Sometimes , for no obvious reason , an item fails to respond to a particular method or the soil reacts only slowly , or not at all , with a chemical that would appear suitable . |
| 21 | The comparison can be taken further ; as with child abuse in the home , people either believe it happens the whole time or not at all . |
| 22 | In particular , the Full Moon in your opposite sign of Aries on the 14th may prove to be tense , and even a little tearful , but partners , employers and family members alike must be told in no uncertain terms that you intend to do things your way or not at all . |
| 23 | Like them , she knew that the act of shaping — a line , an emphasis , a pattern — brings a measure of power and control , and , like them , told her story in her own way or not at all . |
| 24 | In the 1980s stock-taking has become a more unfashionable activity and many libraries check their stock rarely or not at all — despite the opportunities for more streamlined stock-taking offered by automated stock records . |
| 25 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Table 4.6 shows that worry and sadness were expressed by nearly half our samples of dementia sufferers at both time periods ; loneliness was less often admitted , though one in five to a quarter of the samples did admit it ; while saying that they were not very or not at all happy was the least common sentiment , this being expressed by approximately only one in six of the samples . |
| 27 | However , experience around the country suggests that materials arrive late in the school term or not at all . |
| 28 | And yet in all three cases the CSM either acted tardily or not at all . |
| 29 | The limitation that can now be placed on the child-bearing and child-rearing years gives women a greater choice as to whether to return to work sooner , later or not at all . |
| 30 | Well , Queen Carlotta had given him it , and her bastard brother-usurper had confirmed it , so he either had it twice or not at all . |