Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 2 | All simple & partly lovely women attract me , & not merely attract me , but I want to be something to them . |
| 3 | Only , by the way , I see a large number of Scotts here , uniform with yours & mine , at only 1/ each , yet quite clean & good , & not incomplete like those in bookseller 's row ; of which , would you care for me to buy one or two — Ivanhoe , Nigel & c ? |
| 4 | It is all obscure , & not purposely either . |
| 5 | This was the skinhead outercoat ( along with the sheepskins ) & not the Crombie . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For Hilton , as for the Cloud-author , the road to this Jerusalem is " ronne by desires & not by pases of feet " . |
| 8 | In fact I thought that most of the Scotland team was made up of Leeds player in the mid-70 's … infact that is why I support Scotland & not England ( actually because of Lorimer ) at fooball . |
| 9 | But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection . |
| 10 | Melanie stood with her face against the cold glass of her window-pane , seeing not the bleak yard and the lights blossoming in the backs of other houses but berries reddening on the hedges around home and fields glinting with frost . |
| 11 | Where not long ago the forest was thought of as an ‘ enemy ’ , it is now a source of life and livelihood . |
| 12 | Eutrophic flushed peat is flushed by seepage waters rich in mineral plant-nutrients and usually supports a wide range of plant species , including reeds , tall sedges and flush alderwood where not reclaimed . |
| 13 | The area had been built up where not long before , according to Defoe 's account , there were fields of grass with cows feeding in them . |
| 14 | At secondary level , however , where replacement of the Church was more problematical , there is little doubt that the ban on church schools , where not flouted , was in the short term harmful to educational provision . |
| 15 | Where not a habitation stood before , |
| 16 | Agreement is sought and where not reached a fair statement of disagreement is provided . |
| 17 | Also , difference due to sex where not found to be significant in this study . |
| 18 | Where the task involves a number of choices , i.e. there is a choice reaction time , it has long been recognised that reaction time rose progressively with the number of possible choices , but why and to what extent where not understood . |
| 19 | Tell the young mother whose child has just received fifteen thousand pounds after the diagnosis of leukaemia , that you should n't have filled the policy because the contexts where not standardised . |
| 20 | But incredulous , or not , the events happened ( millions of television viewers worldwide watched the Chilean concert ) and as such they typify the massive changes that Amnesty has undergone in its 30-year history . |
| 21 | While over 2,300 people wait on death rows countrywide to see if they will die or not , we can only hope that the US comes to its senses soon . |
| 22 | From a critic 's point of view , a label , whether ending in ‘ ism ’ or not , is convenient . |
| 23 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 24 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 25 | Whether it is or not , the poem can be called distinctive — distinctive both of Larkin and of Amis . |
| 26 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 27 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 28 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 29 | And on the facing page he breathes some more of Shakespeare 's words : ‘ To return to Gavin 's or not . |
| 30 | Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman 's self-portrait , it is the portrait of an artist . |