Example sentences of "[coord] not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therese had explained the rule here that a girl must either accept to dance with everyone who asked her or not get up at all . |
| 2 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 3 | In between there are some great dopey male bonding scenes with Pitt and black buddy Calvin Levels ( eg the attempt to decide whether or not to move in with Yvonne ) , plus some not-so-hot episodes with Nick Cave ( crap as usual as platinum rocker Freak Storm ) . |
| 4 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 5 | Halifax have taken only two points out of the last 18 , and And the club 's directors will decide early next month whether or not to close down following the recent disclosure that Halifax were more than Pounds 100,000 in debt . |
| 6 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) In this Act references to the rules of a self-regulating organisation are references to the rules ( whether or not laid down by the organisation itself ) which the organisation has power to enforce in relation to the carrying on of the business in question or which relate to the admission and expulsion of members of the organisation or otherwise to its constitution . |
| 8 | The traditional concept of religion as insurance on the next world which might or not pay off in this one is exactly reversed . |
| 9 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 10 | All electric fencing requires regular attention to ensure the system is ‘ alive ’ and not earthed out by wet grass touching the wires . |
| 11 | ‘ Actually , ’ Matthew said , ‘ I 've always wondered how those girls managed to wear muslin to the crushes at Bath and not end up with pneumonia . |
| 12 | Counting to ten and not shouting back at yet another unreasoning and unreasonable parent is difficult . |
| 13 | Playing at volume , the FGM proves itself capable of dishing out the dirt , the Dual Sound humbucker retaining its tone and not thinning out to a tuneless buzz . |
| 14 | According to Eric Midwinter , former director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing , ‘ Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race or sex and not borne out by medical evidence . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But if the players are only going to produce their best in the glamour games and not pick up on the importance of matches against the likes of Wimbledon and Sheffield United , then they wo n't be playing when the big games come round again — it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 16 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 17 | I 'm happy if I can go up several flights of stairs and not get out of breath . |
| 18 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 19 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 20 | I must also come in when I am told and sit down and eat my meals properly and not run out into the street with a slice of bread in my hand . |
| 21 | Ask them to be as specific as possible , — and not hold back on any areas , even if they seem embarrassing . |
| 22 | She had a row with a young man named Nick Owens when they were all at the caelidhe one evening and he told her that he wanted her to be his girl and not go out with anyone else . |
| 23 | ‘ How much longer I shall stay in it and not go out of it , who knows ! |
| 24 | Now that she was going to stay on in France for a while and not go back to her old school , she 'd already let go of those friends . |
| 25 | The beautiful house looked just the same , white and gleaming in the sunlight , and Jenna looked away quickly , knowing that she wanted to stay here with Alain and not go back to her empty life , her sterile plans for the future . |
| 26 | Mark took from Sophia the cyclostyled leaflet hardly a ‘ brochure ’ he felt — and read through the rules starting with ‘ Sex ( undoctored … = and Siamese cats can not be accepted ) ’ , going on to invite owners to bring bedding but ‘ no bowls , please ’ , and ending with the injunction ‘ This year we must ask you to leave your cat at the house and not go down to the Cattery . |
| 27 | Cultural and educational inequalities based on economic inequality are a reality which needs to be revealed and not glossed over by a populist notion of art for the people . |
| 28 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 29 | The Roman theatre , when built on a new site , differed from the Greek pattern in that it was generally constructed above ground and not hollowed out from the hillside . |
| 30 | Does being true to oneself , and not selling out to Hollywood , really mean abandoning melodrama for realism , showmanship for seriousness , spectacle for solemn emotion , tight scripts for improvised styles ? |