Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not the directors themselves had been negligent was not in issue , but it is suggested that a finding to that effect would have been more problematical . |
| 2 | The charge is void whether or not the event which gave rise to its voidness occurred during or after the end of the 21-day period . |
| 3 | In the case of Stoneley v Richardson [ 1973 ] Crim LR 310 it was held that it does not matter whether or not the constable who inspected the tyre was an authorised examiner under section 67 Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 4 | Coming from the critical position that they do , the conservative-historians have little difficulty in deciding whether or not the changes they have identified in either post-war sexual morality , or legislation relating to sexual morality , can be plausibly described as ‘ permissive ’ . |
| 5 | Let me systematically reconstruct the implications of Benjamin 's analysis : ( 1 ) A cultural text can be auratic or nonauratic with respect to ( a ) the object depicted , ( b ) the means by which it is depicted , and ( c ) whether or not the text itself is mechanically ( or electronically ) reproduced . |
| 6 | I know it 's not his car 's number plate , or not the car he usually travels in , but ask if it fits his birthday in any way , or his phone number , or anything at all they can think of . |
| 7 | Similarly , a person can attempt to avoid infection by washing hands before handling and eating food , but nevertheless , is dependent on others as to whether or not the food itself was free of pathogenic microorganisms when it was purchased . |
| 8 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 9 | Again , he was in an hotel , although not the kind he would normally care to frequent . |
| 10 | More often than not the words they choose to apply are negative . |
| 11 | Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit . |
| 12 | some handsome star and not the bloke they 're with . |
| 13 | However , for most inhabitants of England and Wales , from the nineteenth century onwards , it is the town and not the field which has filled their vision . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , the ‘ surreptitious alliance between the press and the government ’ which Asquith was criticizing was the norm and not the exception what he implied it was . |
| 15 | That is , in using terms such as reference , presupposition , implicature and inference , the discourse analyst is describing what speakers and hearers are doing , and not the relationship which exists between one sentence or proposition and another . |
| 16 | If one bit of the brook is cleared and not the rest it just creates a problem somewhere else . |
| 17 | She was entirely unaware that the man she was with was watching her enchanted face and not the spectacle she was so taken with . |
| 18 | a landlord of premises let together with furniture to a tenant whose term is still unexpired ; if the furniture is wrongfully seized by the sheriff , it is the tenant and not the landlord who can sue for conversion . |
| 19 | The truth of the matter is that it depends on the person and not the music we listen to . |
| 20 | It was the amplifier and not the music which caused concern and it was usual to attach planning conditions to an application of this type , he added . |
| 21 | ‘ What is appropriated and reproduced is here only the herd and not the soil which is always used in temporary commonalty wherever the tribe breaks its wanderings. ’ [ p. 89 . ] |
| 22 | In both cases it is the application of the technique and not the technique itself which is dangerous . |
| 23 | We believe that St Albans er has a traffic problem facing it in recent years , two or three year 's ago at the height of activity er the problems facing it were were more obvious and along with that situation er there 's no question about that and one might be forgetting to thinking the problem and not the way it has n't , it will return now , we know it will be return and therefore we should be firm in our resolve and at some point in time in the future that problem must be addressed sensibly for the good of the people of St Albans . |
| 24 | ‘ All my work is the evidence of a life , and not the life itself . ’ |
| 25 | So when you mark somebody 's test paper you do n't just put the name and not the sentence you 've got ta work out one mark out of two whatever . |
| 26 | There were candles and matches on a ledge just inside the front door where she had left them on her last visit , for Lydia was in fact a sufficiently practical person and not the ass she sometimes chose to appear . |
| 27 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 28 | This was the Old Red I had heard about , and not the man I had met in the subway . |
| 29 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 30 | If a cheque is wrongly processed it is the collecting bank and not the customer who will be liable . ’ |