Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear whether some schools did not have the instruments available as requested or whether pupils decided not to use them . |
| 2 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 3 | It was far out of the reach of grown-ups as well as children , except that Jasper did not really think anything was out of his reach . |
| 4 | The European Court held that although Belgium had not legislated to give effect to Article 119 , Ms Defrenne was entitled to pay equal to that of male cabin stewards . |
| 5 | The education convener , Mervyn Rolfe , said that although Tayside did not appear to have a greater bullying problem than elsewhere , anything which impeded a pupil should be tackled swiftly and methodically . |
| 6 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 7 | The question , posed by the Tobacco Advisory Council , was asking if readers knew that if smokers did not pay £11.5 million a day in tax , the basic rate of income tax would rise by about 5p in the pound . |
| 8 | IT WAS apparent to Cadfael , when he reentered the abbot 's parlour , that if battle had not actually been joined , war trumpets were certainly being tuned for the onset . |
| 9 | It might be said that if psychoanalysis had not posited the pleasure principle as the basis for the functioning of the unconscious , there would be no problem about this set of phenomena of ‘ compulsions to repeat ’ . |
| 10 | They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold . |
| 11 | The basic contention of their paper was that if Britain did not dominate an area , the Russians would . |
| 12 | It may be that if others did not follow the rule we think best we would have , in that fact , a reason not to follow it ourselves . |
| 13 | The commentators talked about a ‘ surprise ’ win , and there were hints that if Ade had not had the misfortune that he did , the result might have been different . |
| 14 | The headnote in the Weekly Law Reports is wrong : it states that the lease provided that disputes were to be referred to arbitration , whereas in fact the lease between Ipswich and Fisons said that if Fisons did not accept Ipswich 's terms the matter should be referred to an independent expert . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin repeated his threat that if parliament did not approve his version , he would take it to a referendum . |
| 16 | It was advice which appeared to ignore the fact that if Alexei did not , Sidacai 's death warrant would be signed and his sentence executed . |
| 17 | Montagu and Henderson were alone in dissenting , not only from the advice tendered but also from the implied assumption that if Asquith did not serve , none of the others present would either . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that if Wyn had not been as strong as she has , then I would not be here today . ’ |
| 19 | Fernandes , the party 's former shadow Foreign Minister , was quoted as saying that if Savimbi did not accept their call for reforms at the party conference to be held on June 30 , their tendency would split from UNITA . |
| 20 | But I am in no doubt that if players had not been forthcoming the next chapter in the SA book — not the SARB 's — would have been to offer money . |
| 21 | I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard . |
| 22 | Everybody knew that if Everett had not stepped in to buy all those unsold shares , the company would have been a dead duck . |
| 23 | The belief that f caused s , then , is in part that if f had not occurred , s would not have , that if s occurred so did f . |
| 24 | It follows that if e had not occurred , and c " had occurred , then c did not occur . |
| 25 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 26 | Although his mother remained upset about the accident , and was naturally more protective of him , his father took the view that if Guy did not perceive himself as disabled , nobody else would , and this proved to be the case . |
| 27 | It must sometimes puzzle the Russians how easy it is to plant such nonsense on British intelligence but what they do not appreciate is that if defectors did not invent such silly tales MI5 and MI6 would do so themselves anyway . |
| 28 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 29 | She asked that if Clemens did not attend his trial in London he be dealt with as convicted in his absence . |
| 30 | The judge added , at p. 143 , that if Woolwich had not paid there might have been an assessment or a writ ‘ with the result in either case of highly undesirable publicity for Woolwich if it had withheld the very large sums claimed by the revenue to be due ’ and that there was an understandable fear by Woolwich of damage to its reputation . |