Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [is] not [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board is obliged to publicise the escrow account the balance of which is paid to the person if he or she is not convicted or at the end of the five year period . |
| 2 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 3 | And that often also means paying for your ex-wife if she 's not working or does n't earn very much . |
| 4 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 5 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 6 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 7 | This collection is arranged by family , sub-filed by genus and species , but it is not indexed or listed in any way . |
| 8 | Tap tap tap all bloody day long , when it 's not singing or falling off its perch . |