Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] not [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lesser seas which must also be included , in particular the fifteen around the islands of the East Indian archipelago : the Sulu , Celebes and Molucca Seas , the Gulf of Tomini , the Halmahera , Ceram , Banda , Arafura ( which may or may not contain the Gulf of Carpentaria , depending on which atlas is used ) , Timor and Flores Seas , the Gulf of Boni , the Bali Sea , the Makassar Strait , the Java and Savu Seas ; and there is the Gulf of Thailand , the Strait of Malacca , the Singapore Strait and the Inland Sea of Japan . |
| 2 | Each college of education has its own particular theory and philosophy of education and may or may not influence the trainee teacher . |
| 3 | The issue may or may not be underwritten and the issuing company may or may not engage the services of a broker for advice and/or to organize the insurance of the issue . |
| 4 | A goal may or may not be scored ; the abbot may or may not admit the refugee from justice . |
| 5 | These new relationships may or may not affect the physical arrangement of the structure or artefact being designed . |
| 6 | A difference in age or gender between speakers of English , for example , may or may not affect the way things are said , whereas in Urdu , such differences are always reflected . |
| 7 | A third response is to agree that as things are presently constituted females do end up with poorer spatial visualisation skills by adolescence ( which may or may not affect the learning of mathematics ) , but then claim that the reason for this outcome is differential male-female learning experiences . |
| 8 | They might or might not ask spot the point , they may or may not answer the right questions , but you 're in a marvellous point of view , position , to actually be able to spot angles . |
| 9 | if choreographers wish to make their design more interesting they should attempt to give each step and pose some distinctive quality or unusual place in the design , which may or may not break the old conventions . |
| 10 | Where the third party act is negligent , it may or may not break the chain of causation . |
| 11 | Bristol offers a range of self-help therapies including a vegan diet , counselling and spiritual healing , none of which is mandatory — patients may or may not follow the treatment advised . |
| 12 | Complete bones may or may not include the epiphyses and are defined as any bones that include major parts of proximal and distal ends as well as the shaft . |
| 13 | This may or may not include the present health promotion and education work of health educators as we now understand it . |
| 14 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 15 | The researcher may or may not attend the group discussion , but he or she will have to evaluate the results and put them into report form , adding his or her conclusions . |
| 16 | So , although a wild horse would continually roam in search of food , a domestic horse may not , or may not have the opportunity to do so . |
| 17 | This is the main appeal of religion to the vast majority of believers , who may or may not have the ‘ oceanic ’ feeling of the more mystically inclined . |
| 18 | And may or may not have the resolution , the constancy , so to do . |
| 19 | And there 's also you may or may not have the erm form which you claim relief for community charge and housing benefit inside the form . |
| 20 | This might or might not suit the wishes of the Lord Warden of the Forest . |
| 21 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 22 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 23 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 24 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 25 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for trying to answer the question , but can he improve on that answer and tell the House clearly whether a Labour Government would or would not have the fourth boat ? |
| 26 | Is it not astonishing that the Secretary of State , having made a decision on 15 Para , can not or will not answer the pertinent points put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Hillhead ( Mr. Galloway ) and the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) ? |
| 27 | Those who lose or can not meet the urge become ‘ defeated ’ , become dependent , destructive , or , if not apathetic , at least dismissive . |
| 28 | Contractors are either not interested because the job is too small or can not undertake the work for weeks . |
| 29 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 30 | Provided that the person putting the terms forward has taken reasonable steps to bring the terms to the attention of persons in general , it is irrelevant that those steps were insufficient to bring the terms to the attention of the particular contracting partner , for instance because he/she is illiterate , blind or can not speak the language in which the terms are printed ( Thompson v London Midland and Scottish Railway Co [ 1930 ] 1 KB 41 ) . |