Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact what the members of the Committee wished to do was to alter the law , not expressly to encourage or legalise such practices , but to remove them , like adultery and other sins , from the realm of the law . |
| 2 | They will pay for licences to release substances they can not economically recycle or recover . |
| 3 | This is not to say that at some point such studies may not eventually facilitate or enter into explanations of a traditional theoretical kind , but this is not their point . |
| 4 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |
| 5 | They do not necessarily reflect or indicate any academic achievement . |
| 6 | This was firmly denied by the Committee , both before and after publication , who argued that to urge a change in the law was not necessarily to approve or endorse homosexual behaviour . |
| 7 | It is not enough to visit or telephone the offices of the local authority , water authority and public utilities , to verify the availability of services . |
| 8 | In the case of other loss or damage , a person can not so exclude or restrict his liability for negligence except in so far as the term or notice satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 9 | This states that in respect of loss or damage other than arising from death or personal injury ‘ a person can not so exclude or restrict liability for negligence except in so far as the term or notice satisfies the requirement of reasonableness ’ . |
| 10 | It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " . |
| 11 | They are not words for physical things , like objects or parts of the body , but for states or processes that we can not physically see or feel . |
| 12 | Words articulate our experience of things , they do not just express or reflect it ; they give form to what , without language and other sign-systems , would merely be a chaotic and undifferentiated jumble of ideas ; instead of things determining the meaning of words , words determine the meaning of things . |
| 13 | This indicates that the politics of local government do not just respond or react to the local environment , but crucially that they also help to mould this environment , and thus to a certain extent help to shape the local political agenda . |
| 14 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 15 | Ticketlink , which arranges for the underprivileged , elderly , disabled and unemployed to enjoy events they can not usually afford or get to , is calling for its scheme to be extended throughout Britain . |
| 16 | If this is the aim it will , by the agreement of transfer , be necessary to specify that the transferor will not further use or disclose the information himself , otherwise the transferee will simply be one further person who is aware of the information . |
| 17 | These latently anti-parliamentary attitudes also extend to the openness and equality of political democracy , since voters do not always recognize or defer adequately to expertise . |
| 18 | A voice crying out a message which you could not always understand or believe in , but which was important . |
| 19 | Even if you can drive you may not always have or have use of a car , but you will always need to reach the shops , go to the bank , to the doctor 's , and so on . |
| 20 | Whilst this example is unique , it does serve to remind us that those who are editorially in charge of newspapers are sometimes , though perhaps not for long , able to lead the paper in directions which its masters do not always support or follow . |
| 21 | The Project Manager shall not unreasonably withhold or delay the issue of such authority , and any delay exceeding six weeks from the date of request , or any refusal of authority , shall be subject to review by the Project Committee . |
| 22 | But he must not wilfully damage or destroy the thing . |
| 23 | At break , although the Russells Hall pupils took the Sutton pupils outside , the two groups did not really mingle or play together . |
| 24 | Possibly , but the A version does not really confirm or deny this , or provide any clear resolution to the play . |
| 25 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 26 | Forty-one per cent of the known opioid users were also known to have taken other types of drug , although this is probably an underestimate since some agencies do not routinely record or receive information about all drugs used by people on their files . |
| 27 | It is sometimes argued that Freud 's theories must be accepted or rejected all of a piece , and that one can not simply accept or reject ‘ bits ’ of them as one fancies . |
| 28 | Sabine is not here to confirm or deny their conversation , and neither can she confirm or deny how much of her work went into the Durances . |
| 29 | This letter allows advice only ; the firm can not then arrange or effect a transaction or instruct a broker . |
| 30 | If the submission is unsuccessful the person making it can not then give or call any further evidence . |