Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 4 | Where , however , the settlor is not domiciled or not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in any year of assessment the term does not include income arising under a settlement in that year in respect of which the settlor , if he were actually entitled thereto , would not be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise by reason of his now being so domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident . |
| 5 | Or not even that long have they ? |
| 6 | The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level , or not just working-class suffrage but , for the first time , mass political parties , and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order . |
| 7 | Offering a single-sentence , short-hand definition such as ‘ Sociology is the study of human society and human social behaviour ’ may seem rather vague and uninformative ( though being essentially accurate ) , or not sufficiently precise as to distinguish sociology from other disciplines such as psychology . |
| 8 | However , this information is not very helpful for those who are not intuitive or not so confident about their intuition . |
| 9 | But perhaps more importantly , do any companies get real value from the large sums they spend trying to persuade a gullible or not so gullible public that they are modern and go-ahead — or , even more to the point , how many logos that do not contain the company name ( like BP or ICI ) are recognised unprompted by the average person ? |
| 10 | However , as Norton and Aughey ( 1981 ) comment of Conservative Party members in general , whether young or not so young , ‘ generally party activists tend not to devote their energies to political discussion , not because they are discouraged from doing so , but because they themselves prefer to do other things ’ ( pp. 219–20 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 12 | If the respondent was a relative , friend , or neighbour , they were asked to say whether they thought various aspects of the home were good or not so good . |
| 13 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 14 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 15 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 16 | Rather , the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities . |
| 17 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 18 | Even better were the days when there was no box and she and Andrew rode home together through the short dark evenings , gentle friends , warm goodnights calling to them , stresses of the day , wonderful or not so wonderful , over and past , the time for loving and giving nearer … |
| 19 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 20 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 21 | Whether or not all such bodies were bona fide trade unions seems to be questionable . |
| 22 | However , where we can not identify a triple alliance , a society may still be dominated by a transnational capitalist class whose practices are genuinely transnational whether or not all three parties are represented . |
| 23 | The patient characteristically believes that the part is diseased or not fully functional . |
| 24 | The other charters in which Aethelbald is styled ‘ king of the South Angles ’ ( CS 157 : S 94 ; CS 163 : S 101 ) are either not necessarily earlier than 736 or not certainly genuine ( CS 164 : S 103 ) . |
| 25 | They 've now taken the ramps out , which is a breach of the planning condition again , so we intend to pursue them on that , and they are offering , believe it or not that disabled people can be taxied from one side of the station to the other side of the station . |
| 26 | But , equally , well-intentioned laws that are badly drafted or not readily accessible are also a form of tyranny . |
| 27 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 28 | First , of those not sectioned , a considerable proportion were not hospitalized at all : whether or not mentally ill , they were not , following assessment , seen to fit the criteria for compulsory admission . |
| 29 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 30 | Or not too much . |