Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … let us see what the statement of claim alleges , or rather does not allege . |
| 2 | Where , by contrast , the relationship between subject and type of work is more pluralistic , that possibility does not exist ; or rather does not exist in theory . |
| 3 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 4 | Only recently I suffered a modest attack of it myself when recounting what I had eaten , or rather had n't eaten , that day . |
| 5 | The Greeks did not react — or rather did not go beyond the surface of Roman life — until they found themselves faced with a first-class power which had defeated the Greek armies of Pyrrhus on the open field . |
| 6 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 7 | It might be that the individual does not see the value of climbing a mountain ; or perhaps does not have the confidence to set about the task . |
| 8 | There is , I have found , some gentle entertainment to be had in discussion with publishers ' representatives , observing the wide-eyed eagerness with which they greet potentially saleable ideas , and their clenched , wary , glazed-eyes response to proposals they feel negative about , or perhaps do not understand . |
| 9 | In fact , we were supposed to be doing something with Eric and John , but Eric could n't make it , or perhaps did n't want to . |
| 10 | Apparently , not everyone agreed , or perhaps did not get what they considered to be their fair share , for eventually the Backless baron was transported to Australia , no doubt to become another ‘ Wild Colonial Boy ’ . |
| 11 | A dialect , too , where syntax and grammar work differently to ‘ standard ’ English , the sort taught in our educational institutions , shows that someone has consciously or unconsciously chosen not to abandon the speech patterns of their region for the blander cadences of BBC English . |
| 12 | ‘ Whether he made a will or not does n't affect me . |
| 13 | But my point is that whether it 's true or not does n't matter . |
| 14 | But whether we 're aware of it or not does n't alter the fact that if we 're outside of God , outside of Jesus Christ then we are lost . |
| 15 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 16 | With case study material print has an important role but there is always the danger that it goes astray or just does n't get read . |
| 17 | If someone does n't say anything you do n't know if they do n't know what 's happened , if they do n't know what to say or just do n't care . |
| 18 | Most of the time he spoke gibberish , changed the subject or just did n't finish his sentences , walking away to examine some dark stain on a wall . |
| 19 | It sounds more like a yoga class , but Pierre 's technique has helped thousands of people who either could n't swim at all or just did n't like putting their head underwater . |
| 20 | When we consider the nature of many items that only the state uses ( or hopefully does not use ! ) |
| 21 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 22 | If the upper part had been true as to intervals it would have been in B major , and of course the tonal results would have been chaotic : organ Whether intervals are true or false does not matter to listeners , who can not easily distinguish the difference . |
| 23 | One group of investigators have argued that the inclusion of asymptomatic recurrences in the analysis of ulcer relapse trials should be discouraged , because these silent ulcers are clinically irrelevant ; however , such optimism ( based on findings made in a small group of patients with asymptomatic ulceration followed up for between 1 and 13 months ) is probably misguided , because one third of DU patients presenting with perforation and up to 60% admitted with haematemesis/or melaena , or both do not give a history of previous ulcer pain . |
| 24 | Here , too , to call a woman ‘ barren ’ , or even ‘ childless ’ , implies that — whether she ca n't have a child or simply does n't want one — she is somehow wrong and unnatural . |
| 25 | Perhaps she 's forgotten — or simply does n't care . |
| 26 | There are whole areas here , Donald , where basic facilities such as water , for example , are in very poor supply or simply do n't exist at all . |
| 27 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |
| 28 | You 'll still carry that emotional baggage with you wherever you go , wondering what you said or maybe did n't say that frightened him off . |
| 29 | But Gloria did n't hear , or anyhow did n't answer . |
| 30 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |