Example sentences of "[conj] not [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Attorney General 's spokesman said a decision on whether or not to appeal the sentence would be made ‘ urgently ’ .
2 The Attorney General 's spokesman said a decision on whether or not to appeal the sentence would be made ‘ urgently ’ .
3 A directive is addressed to member states within the EC but it is left to each individual government to decide whether or not to implement the directive .
4 Knowing or not knowing the title of the passage had a significant effect on recall , as did word order .
5 The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project .
6 The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project .
7 Moreover — another fruitful borrowing from physics — Pasteur discovered in 1848 that chemically identical substances could be physically distinct , e.g. rotating or not rotating the plane of polarised light .
8 If these can be detected early enough , then women can decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy .
9 Ultimately , whether or not to take the test must be the decision of the individual .
10 There are skills of every kind to be learned , from changing a nappy to knowing whether or not to call the doctor , when to teach the facts of life , and how to develop the parent-child relationship during adolescence .
11 And Lawrence whether he meant to or not banged the ball in short , er round about leg stump , he sort of half went to glances did n't he ?
12 There are , however , certain risks involved in delegating to people other than the patient the power to make what may be life-or-death decisions — for example , the decision to discontinue certain treatment , to control symptoms , or not to resuscitate the patient .
13 You ca n't put the onus on guidebook descriptions , the final decision on whether or not to do the route must rest with the judgement and common sense of the individual on the spot .
14 Either paragraph , if satisfied , suffices to open the door to an exercise of discretion as to whether or not to order the return of the child in question .
15 They suggested that any objections should be sent to our County Councillor immediately as there is a meeting arranged for next Tuesday to decide whether or not to close the court .
16 In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable .
17 Erm , what other factor , other than whether they have waiver of premium or not affects the allocation to units .
18 Certainly , it is not easy to see on what basis the magistrate could have taken that fact into account when deciding whether or not to commit the applicant ; for the point only arises if there was sufficient evidence to justify the committal , in which event the magistrate was bound under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to commit the applicant .
19 ‘ Where the prosecution intends to lead evidence of verbal admissions or confessions , the defence should always be alerted before the start of the case of such intention and the terms of the admissions/confessions so as to give the defence an opportunity to determine whether or not to challenge the admissibility of the evidence . ’
20 I demand now in plain terms whether you will or not have the protector for your sovereign . ’
21 Knowing the child , the teacher would decide whether or not to pursue the teaching point and encourage Mark to try again .
22 Her teacher would know whether the idea of ‘ growing ’ is one that confuses Nichola , and would know whether or not to pursue the idea on another occasion .
23 If no offer is received from the Airline , then the amount involved must be taken into account when deciding on whether or not to pursue the recovery further .
24 The ability to win over an informant who is undecided whether or not to grant the interview is important , as is the ability to put people at their ease and reassure them that the interview is not going to be some sort of viva voce examination .
25 To meet this development section 17(2) was inserted into the Act and provides that where an application is made for an interlocutory injunction and the party against whom it is sought claims that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall , in exercising its discretion whether or not to grant the injunction , have regard to the likelihood of that party 's succeeding at the trial of the action in establishing the matter which would afford a defence under the Act .
26 Some judgement is needed about the risk element , in deciding whether or not to launch the product .
27 He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener .
28 Evaluation — where the potential customer decides whether or not to try the product out
29 In this type of case the duty which mandamus enforces is often not a statutory one but the common law duty , which every power-holder has , to give proper consideration to the question of whether or not to exercise the power .
30 Knowing this , Anna has to decide whether or not to trust the stranger she sees approaching her farm .
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