Example sentences of "not it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , donors have also used aid to pursue their selfinterest regardless of whether or not it was compatible with that of the recipient . |
| 2 | I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran . |
| 3 | Nobody asked any questions about whether or not it was safe . |
| 4 | Corman naturally agreed with this assessment and is not saying whether or not it was the way he and Nicholson intended it . |
| 5 | But the results of Fig. 5.2 show that the degree of suppression evoked by a test stimulus does not depend upon whether or not it was appetitively reinforced during the first stage . |
| 6 | Then there was the question of what sorts of costume were appropriate on such a journey , and whether or not it was worth my while to invest in a new set of clothes . |
| 7 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 8 | The police do n't seem to be entirely certain whether or not it was Burrows , that 's all . ’ |
| 9 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 10 | Although they discussed the mystery at length , it was clear that they would never reach a solution to the puzzle of the man 's presence at Thorsbury and whether or not it was with Tamar 's knowledge . |
| 11 | But before writing to her friend of the matter , the queen-dowager debated whether or not it was necessary to burden her with the knowledge . |
| 12 | Without these , you ca n't really tell whether or not it was a good idea to set up yet another restaurant in the city centre . |
| 13 | Second , we found that ill health was an important factor in the decision to retire early , although it was not possible to say whether or not it was the overriding factor . |
| 14 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 15 | Commonly not exceeding a couple of pounds , the church stock reached an exceptional £7. 6s. at Waddesdon , Bucks. , though as often as not it was nil , or else no figure was given , some certificates consistently omitting it . |
| 16 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |
| 17 | Whether or not it was realized , then , how exposed the French position was in Vietnam , the universal scope of US foreign policy had just been restated in its most monumental form . |
| 18 | But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer . |
| 19 | [ 1989 ] A.C. 66 without , I think , any argument upon whether or not it was permissible for , ascertaining the purpose of subordinate legislation and also in other cases for ascertaining the purpose for which a power to make subordinate legislation was used . |
| 20 | because er so few , so few of you have admitted to doing it , well five people here have , dare I ask if any one would like to say whether or not it was successful , yes . |
| 21 | So first of all we 'll have a look at a a blameworthy aspect of it , then we 'll have a look if whether or not it was avoidable . |
| 22 | Still unsure whether or not it was appropriate , he said that he would like to name Virgin 's first plane Spirit of Sir Freddie . |
| 23 | A director whose functions demand the possession of some technical ability would accordingly be required to comply with the standard of the reasonably competent practitioner of the expertise in question , whether or not it was actually possessed . |
| 24 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 25 | More often than not it was the ‘ depraved ’ , sexualized and socially inferior female prostitute who was seen to condense these aspects of male fantasy . |
| 26 | Only occasionally was the river solid for most of its width — more often than not it was fringed by a thin strip of ice , our path . |
| 27 | Usually this method put in nearby groups plants that intuition , or an enumeration as done by Adanson , indicated were alike ; but not always , and if not it was just too bad . |
| 28 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 29 | and erm he would take er legal action or at least that was the idea , we hardly ever got any erm any change out of the Le Legal Department and as often as not it was written off . |
| 30 | The crisis has occurred because of the Government 's policy — which , whether or not it was deliberate , has been disastrous , as my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) said . |