Example sentences of "[coord] not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is all obscure , & not purposely either .
2 All simple & partly lovely women attract me , & not merely attract me , but I want to be something to them .
3 Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape .
4 Parents may be too busy to attend to them or not fast enough in their reactions and understanding of what is required and so the child tantrums in desperation and anger .
5 The Sun ca n't be past , or not past , the zenith on the Sun .
6 As I said , the Sun ca n't be past , or not past , the zenith on the Sun .
7 It would be possible to take the view that clause 12 covered all costs , charges and expenses whether or not improperly incurred .
8 There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on .
9 I do n't know if our Danny 's coming down or not tonight .
10 No but again it does but but but when the but when the local community rises up like this and and expresses such a a heart felt opinion on something elected representatives or not surely they ought to listen when a specific issue like this is is obviously causing such concern ?
11 Hence current management has an incentive to suggest that information they have ( presumably private to them or not previously sufficiently appreciated ) suggests a rosy future under the present regime .
12 Now , meanwhile , or not meanwhile , quite a lot later , in early mediaeval allegory , you find that the allegorical poet has a quite ordinary technical problem when he 's writing about things like mercy and cruelty .
13 The question whether to continue training or not invariably depends on the expert and his or her individual belief .
14 From his early years , he had been engaged in the creation of a whole world , comparable in scale with the world of Greek mythology , with a pantheon of gods , a hierarchy of elvish immortals , and a vast cycle of stories , some of them ‘ forgotten ’ , or not yet formulated , in his imagination ; some surviving in fragmentary form ; some planned as long prose narratives ; some conceived as great poems , longer than Beowulf The sheer volume of all this , much of it composed before his fortieth birthday , bears testimony to a rare artistic self-confidence .
15 He decided he was n't going to get anywhere along those lines , or not yet , and went over again the details of when Hawick had last seen his fiancée .
16 In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take .
17 Most of the world 's cultivable areas are , by comparison , either hardly touched or not yet touched at all .
18 Unfortunately not ; or not yet .
19 Or not yet anyway .
20 However , let us not — or not yet — infer mass nationalism from separatist movements in all cases .
21 They were admitted by a surprised servant , who had been told to keep the young man out of the house , but not , or not yet , Miss Dinah , who had firm hold of Mr Arkwright 's hand .
22 Because Rotterdam is the distribution port for your cargo whether sold or not yet sold : traders in all kinds of commodities are based here .
23 Often this is because the materials are not available , whether because they have been destroyed or not yet revealed .
24 However , turning aside these local instruments , and that is not to suggest that they are unimportant , how may lawyers and interested laymen each year obtain copies of delegated legislation which are thought to , and may indeed , affect their client 's or their own life and course of conduct , only to find that they are out of print or not yet available ?
25 Or not yet ?
26 Or not yet .
27 Do n't know whether Clare 's coming or not yet .
28 But before she could decide whether or not finally to deny it he stopped her in her tracks with another accusation — one that she had definitely not seen coming .
29 For even if it is accepted ( ignoring , or rejecting , any arguments to the contrary ) that spatio-temporal relations are not , or not wholly , explicable in terms of intrinsic and qualitative properties of related things , there still remains the problem of accounting for the objectivity of such relations .
30 to make it or not today but he 's half with us today !
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