Example sentences of "is not [adv] or " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The subsection provides a simple method of solving the difficulty created if a licensing board is not timeously or fully elected .
3 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 .
4 For that belief is not analytically or necessarily true ; no contradiction is implied by supposing it false .
5 But it is not always or necessarily the best advice .
6 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 .
7 This thought , that the given cause of the wine 's being cool is not in or of itself a means , is reinforced by the truth , among others , that the given cause is precisely not a means to my idiosyncratic drinking companion , who likes his Haut Poitou uncooled .
8 where the injured party is not in or on a vehicle by the Insurer of the vehicle actually striking him
9 Modernity is not merely or even supremely capitalism .
10 But this is not absolutely or finally convincing … ’
11 Formal treaty amendment of constitutive treaties is not lightly or frequently undertaken .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 . ’
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