Example sentences of "[conj] will [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 A considerable body of law has developed since then dealing with both the circumstances in which the Court will or will not award interim damages , and the principles which are to be used in assessing what level of award should be made .
2 And that 's because we tend to prejudge who will or will not go in .
3 Is it not astonishing that the Secretary of State , having made a decision on 15 Para , can not or will not answer the pertinent points put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Hillhead ( Mr. Galloway ) and the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) ?
4 A guarantee is a promise by a third party which , if properly drawn up , will make that party legally liable to pay you if your own debtor can not or will not settle .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Cases of transactions which give , at any rate , a moral right , but a right which the Common Law Courts can not or will not protect .
8 You 'll never be able do , train people to design , whether a suggestion will or will not fit .
9 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 .
10 The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay .
11 If names can not or will not pay up for 1990 and 1991 , the central fund could quickly be exhausted .
12 If , for some reason the nominated appointor can not or will not make an appointment , the court is likely to provide alternative machinery for determining the rent ( Sudbrook Trading Estate Ltd v Eggleton [ 1982 ] 3 All ER 1 ) .
13 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 .
14 Even point-blank questioning may fail since people often can not or will not explain their feelings or attitudes .
15 The Department of Health publishes tar tables to encourage smokers who can not or will not give up smoking to switch to lower tar brands on the grounds that this may at least lower their risk of lung cancer .
16 ‘ What I want is to be in charge of myself , to decide what I will or will not do . ’
17 Who can say what will or will not contribute to the solution of problems ?
18 The other thing one can do is once again increasingly to use food that we , ourselves , can not or will not use , and the imposition of quotas which has put a degree of extensification on dairy production , has in fact encouraged this trend .
19 ‘ If she does , she can not , or will not say . ’
20 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 .
21 If you do get caught and the big company 's payments department and purchasing manager can not or will not help then you could try the following approach :
22 At the moment we are unable to predict with accuracy who will or will not abuse .
23 They would say that walking has been , and always will be , the principal method of human transport , yet during the current motorised interlude those that can not or will not ride must step aside — literally — for those that do .
24 the governing body must decide who they will or will not accept into the school .
25 In the final analysis , if the small farmer and peasant of the Third World can not or will not take conservation to heart , no amount of model-building , empirical plot studies , erosion risk assessment or legislation will result in the preservation of the soil 's resources .
26 An adult whose mental capacity is unimpaired has the right to decide for herself whether she will or will not receive medical or surgical treatment , even in circumstances where she is likely or even certain to die in the absence of treatment .
27 Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds .
28 That case well illustrates the dangers of conceptions such as ‘ likelihood ’ that an event will or will not occur .
29 For Israel 's way to be hidden Yahweh could mean that God can not see Israel 's way , or will not see Israel 's way , or has caused Israel not to be able to see its own way .
30 This distinction between the effort of the CBHPs and the effort of communities is a useful one in that CBHPs can not take upon themselves the role of providing what a national government can not or will not provide .
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