Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 697 , 739–740 , involving a local authority and one or more other parties ( whether or not including a local authority ) . |
| 2 | Or not without a bit of help . |
| 3 | a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ; |
| 4 | The world 's top securities market regulators , who met recently in Venice , cited the need to reconcile financial statements to local accounting standards as a significant factor in any company 's decision on which markets to target or not for an international offering of new shares . |
| 5 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 6 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 7 | A variety of causes can lie behind the poor performer 's difficulty — low threshold to boredom , poor verbal facility in professional discussions with adults , inadequate job knowledge ( whether or not as a result of inadequate initial training ) or stress . |
| 8 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 9 | In general the availability of charity varied with the existence or not of a resident bourgeoisie with a surplus to give , although a considerable amount was given by those with little to spare . |
| 10 | Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence . |
| 11 | By using years of different lengths , depending on the insertion or not of an intercalary month , reasonable agreement with the sun was maintained . |
| 12 | This motivation arises from the individual 's choice to participate or not in an activity . |
| 13 | The history of the Kilwinning papingo shoot is much longer and more interesting , The Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers was formed in 1483 and is still in existence , although not with a continuous history . |
| 14 | Law agreed , although not with a very good grace . |
| 15 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 16 | However , on Dec. 17 he resigned as Minister without Portfolio in Kohl 's Cabinet and as deputy leader of the CDU ( although not as a Bundestag member ) . |
| 17 | The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures . |
| 18 | Gurder laughed , although not in a very happy way . |
| 19 | Although not in a sense surprising , the impact of the bare facts is nonetheless considerable : for it emerged that these women spent an average of over three hours on weekdays on various caring activities compared to the 13 minutes offered by men ! |
| 20 | This does not affect the cogency of his criticism and prognostication — the cultural barbarism which he feared has perhaps descended , although not in a form which he could have envisaged . |
| 21 | For events that appear to be crises at the time ( although not in a longer perspective ) occur even in the intervening years . |
| 22 | Development can only be achieved over time , and more often than not along a difficult path . |
| 23 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , it was Major 's readiness to use this language ( which , interestingly , Mrs Thatcher , in her effluvial megalomania , regards as Marxist ) that allowed people to vote Conservative , albeit not with a clear conscience . |
| 25 | If the one-tier board structure were used , then the executive directors would ‘ manage ’ and the non-executive directors would ‘ supervise ’ ; to some extent , the boards of UK-listed companies are already moving towards this division , albeit not on a prescribed legal basis , with the establishment of audit committees of non-executive directors to whom the auditors report any matter of concern in the company 's draft accounts , and with the determination of the remuneration of executive directors by a committee of non-executive directors , who also deal with ethical matters and conflicts of interest . |
| 26 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 27 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 28 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 29 | REGIONAL RAILWAYS sees the spread of light rapid transit systems in our cities and suburbs as a development that can be harnessed to serve its interests — and not as a potential for poaching passengers . |
| 30 | How do we ensure that management is seen as a set of empowering activities and not as a control activity ? |