Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | I laughed not scornfully or anything , but just as if it was a joke which I 'd only half got . |
| 2 | Secondly , private investors had their own ideas about where they wanted to place their capital , which did not always or necessarily coincide with those of the Spanish regime . |
| 3 | Those who do not voluntarily or semi-voluntarily place themselves under the authority of relatively just governments are under a partial and qualified obligation to recognize the authority of such a government in their country . |
| 4 | The assistant had not deliberately or knowingly misled the plaintiff . |
| 5 | Or do some represent a kind of verbal hijacking — an attempt to appropriate a term which does not properly or honestly belong in that context at all ? |
| 6 | Doubt does not necessarily or automatically mean the end of faith , for doubt is faith in two minds . |
| 7 | But this does not necessarily or even generally mean that every college teacher can teach . |