Example sentences of "or not [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the day you are either a sticker person or not a sticker person .
2 when you say the entire procedure , would that of included or not a solicitors letter which is set out ?
3 However , as an illustration of the significance of the different approaches to public finance , we consider the recent debate in the UK about whether or not a poll tax ( ‘ community charge ’ ) should replace a system of domestic rates .
4 This too would have raised expenditure irrespective of whether or not a Speenhamland system existed .
5 a shop steward ) is liable for unprivileged acts in the course of a trade dispute , whether or not a trade union is liable .
6 Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) .
7 In addition to the above elements , the King 's Fund also identified several other factors which determined whether or not a community care scheme would be successful .
8 Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case .
9 In a doorway , wedged between a Guardian leader writer and a Kleinian analyst , Alan Headleand and his ex-tutor Otto Werner from the LSE were debating with a fine abstraction and a noble disregard of interruption the question as to whether or not a television programme was a primary product or a service , and whether , by implication or extension , Charles 's production company , Global Information Network ( Telex GIN ) was allied in ideological terms with the manufacturing or the service industries : with equal commitment Esther Breuer and Jules Griffin ( colleague of Liz Headleand ) were discussing the nature of ancestral voices in schizophrenic patients and in the Homeric and Biblical epic , and the portrayal of the Holy Ghost in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts .
10 In the case of a company director , it will be important to establish whether there are director 's loan-accounts and , if so , whether personal guarantees have been given ; whether , if there is a buy/sell agreement , key-person assurance has been arranged ; and whether or not a pension scheme is in force .
11 In laying down the offences , s20 distinguishes according to whether or not the price indication was misleading when it was given .
12 Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract .
13 Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit .
14 At a distance of 150pc , the distance modulus is 5.9 magnitudes providing a lower limit to the absolute magnitude of the companion of about 16 whether or not the candidate star is the binary companion .
15 Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible .
16 Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US .
17 With this definition of deindustrialization a range of indicators can be used to assess whether or not the UK economy is deindustrializing .
18 Disclosure in the scheme 's accounts is also required for all self-investments , whether or not the 5% limit is exceeded .
19 Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day .
20 Mr Knightley had arrived home in grand — if not entirely dignified — style , and luckily he was just in time to decide whether or not the quarry project should go ahead .
21 Whether or not the peak age has gone from 15 to 18 — and specific categories of crime move either way — the average age is 18 .
22 Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria .
23 Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria .
24 Whether or not the Camelford aluminium case is ever proved to have led to long-term damage to the health of people living in the area , it was certainly a major pollution incident .
25 But whether or not the Queen Mother is out of step with public opinion on divorce , she has made it clear no one will tell her how to behave .
26 It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy .
27 The idea of this is to enable the system to detect whether or not the bar code has been read the right way round , or in reverse .
28 Whether or not the Haydock crowd witnesses the next Gold Cup winner , there are many astute racereaders who consider there is a future Gold Cup winner on view today in the shape of Blazing Walker , who contests the Arlington Premier Chase Qualifier .
29 Whether or not the Haydock crowd witnesses the next Gold Cup winner , there are many astute racereaders who consider there is a future Gold Cup winner on view today in the shape of Blazing Walker , who contests the Arlington Premier Chase Qualifier .
30 Furthermore , it is not clear whether or not the control group was screened for polyps .
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