Example sentences of "be not [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , they are not logically or conceptually necessary , as is " If she has children , she is somebody 's mother . " |
| 2 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
| 3 | But although he sacrifices the transitory for the long-term , the latter are not differently or more solidly grounded ; indeed they are in danger of becoming rigid and brittle if they are not continually being enriched , modified and eroded by local and temporary reactions . |
| 4 | M All provisions of this agreement which are not expressly or by necessary implication to merge and be extinguished in the transfer hereunder shall continue in full force and effect after completion . |
| 5 | The law sets out a variety of safeguards to ensure that suspects are not unfairly or harshly treated when they are detained for questioning . |
| 6 | The rule is plainly phonological , as it affects phonetically similar pairs that are not morphologically or semantically related , as in table 5.2 . |
| 7 | … these conditions are not always or even usually the case … |
| 8 | I mean either we 're not there or there 's too many of us there . |
| 9 | The activities reserved for persons protected by the Act of 1988 were not exclusively or even predominantly fishing activities . |
| 10 | Now if she says why we were not here or say say she tells you she called on Saturday and we were out just say to her Raymond was drinking stout ! |
| 11 | First , it could be argued that despite the existence of an evil , worldwide conspiracy its manipulators , or insiders , were not principally or exclusively Jewish . |
| 12 | There was no infringement here because the plaintiff 's and defendant 's articles were not exactly or substantially the same . |
| 13 | Importantly , these measures were not always or even mostly the product of consensus . |
| 14 | It also gave employers legal remedies against industrial action in which no dispute exists between employers and their own employees or which is not wholly or mainly about employment matters . |
| 15 | The subsection provides a simple method of solving the difficulty created if a licensing board is not timeously or fully elected . |
| 16 | It is true , of course , that self-government is one answer to the problem of government ( who governs ? ) , but it is not simply or solely that . |
| 17 | For that belief is not analytically or necessarily true ; no contradiction is implied by supposing it false . |
| 18 | But it is not always or necessarily the best advice . |
| 19 | The compulsion to be exercised in the attempt to satisfy the claim of right is not purely or mainly internal to particular societies : it is compulsion to be exercised by some societies against other societies , coercion to be brought to bear upon an international scale . |
| 20 | Modernity is not merely or even supremely capitalism . |
| 21 | But this is not absolutely or finally convincing … ’ |
| 22 | Formal treaty amendment of constitutive treaties is not lightly or frequently undertaken . |
| 23 | This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult . |
| 24 | It is not a view which includes the recognition that educated , underemployed women are singularly lacking in personal autonomy , and so prone to a frustration which is not necessarily or primarily sexual . |
| 25 | At this point it should be remembered that the proportion of the population which any particular age cohort constitutes during its lifetime is not only or indeed not mainly a function of its own initial size and subsequent mortality rate : it also depends upon the absolute size of all other cohorts and their mortality rates . |
| 26 | Second , this account is not solely or even primarily concerned with innovations in machinery and instruments : a central part of the analysis is the organization of labour . |
| 27 | J. H. Eaton , a magistrate , declared : ‘ It almost goes without saying that there is hardly a case that comes before our courts , to which the natives are parties , in which this crime [ perjury ] is not more or less freely indulged . ’ |
| 28 | I was not critically or sceptically inclined . |
| 29 | An alchemical text was not simply or mainly a means of conveying chemical knowledge , and certainly not of doing it succinctly . |
| 30 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |