Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether she does this or not depends , in Britain , on her own personality and on the attitude of her parents-in-law . |
| 2 | ‘ We have no doubt that intensification of use can be a material change of use , whether it is or not depends upon the degree of intensification . |
| 3 | Deciding whether to defer retirement or not depends on the level of your earnings and the pension you would get . |
| 4 | Whether he goes back again or not depends on his fight to regain his Liverpool spot . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Sister , that boy has got to run his course to crisis , and whether he survives or not depends not on myself or on any other member of the medical staff of this hospital . |
| 6 | The question of whether someone has suffered special damage or not depends on the facts of the particular case , and so is very much in the discretion of the court . |
| 7 | Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ . |
| 8 | For Kuhn , whether a field qualifies as a science or not depends on whether or not it conforms to the account of science offered in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . |
| 9 | Whether you make it or not depends largely on how much you are prepared to give . ’ |
| 10 | Whether they do or not depends on their duration and the personal circumstances of the individual . |
| 11 | In this situation , whether an arbitrage transaction is attractive or not depends on the time preferences of the arbitrageur , and it is not possible to state a general no-arbitrage condition . |
| 12 | Whether they do so or not depends simply on the decisions which teachers , headteachers , local authority officers and elected members choose to make . |
| 13 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 14 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 15 | Whether one agrees with this or not depends , of course , on how one defines " pornography " . |
| 16 | Whether it is so or not depends on all the circumstances of the case including the context and wording of the provisions , the degree of emphasis , the purpose and effect of the default clause and any other relevant consideration . |
| 17 | Whether they succeed or not depends on the circumstances . |
| 18 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 19 | Whether they eventually become brilliant scholars or not does n't really matter ; we will have played a significant part in creating a happy and confident individual — and what could be more important than that ? |
| 20 | But my point is that whether it 's true or not does n't matter . |
| 21 | And also I think , which is very strong and I think it does come out in , in the Chinese Communist Party , is the lust of power which can be even more dangerous when you convince yourself I 'll do all you lot good but I can make you all members of the Communist Party , whether you want to be or not does n't really matter , you know , it 's gon na be for the good of the country so you fall in with this trap of assuming that you want is for their good so it 's sort of a , a dangerous thing . |
| 22 | ‘ Whether he made a will or not does n't affect me . |
| 23 | Oh yes , if they want to come it does n't matter if it 's convenient to you or not does it ! |
| 24 | vivid description of him or not does it ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Erm , what other factor , other than whether they have waiver of premium or not affects the allocation to units . |
| 27 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 28 | ‘ Whether you tell her or not makes no difference . ’ |
| 29 | Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question . |
| 30 | However , whether a horse is friendly or not has no bearing on whether a horse is a good riding horse : some horses who are very good to ride show no indication of liking people at all . |