Example sentences of "or will [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | DENIS Winston Healey is having a certain amount of characteristically mischievous fun with journalists at the moment , on the question of whether he will or will not stand at the next election . |
2 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
3 | This method is perhaps more acceptable for those who can not or will not cope with blood testing or who have very stable diabetes because of some residual β-cell function . |
4 | It costs £700 a year to keep a child in a council day-nursery , and only children in real need — i.e. those whose mothers can not or will not care for them adequately at home — will get a place . |
5 | Who can say what will or will not contribute to the solution of problems ? |
6 | When a mother 's face does not reflect a meaningful world of which the baby is a part — as it seems to me the face of a woman in pain can not — then what results is ‘ a threat of chaos and the baby will organise withdrawal , or will not look except to perceive as a defence . |
7 | the governing body must decide who they will or will not accept into the school . |
8 | But plenty of people either ca n't pay , or wo n't pay on principle . |