Example sentences of "[coord] [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 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From a critic 's point of view , a label , whether ending in ‘ ism ’ or not , is convenient . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether it is or not , the poem can be called distinctive — distinctive both of Larkin and of Amis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 18 | And on the facing page he breathes some more of Shakespeare 's words : ‘ To return to Gavin 's or not . |
| 19 | Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman 's self-portrait , it is the portrait of an artist . |
| 20 | It is true that some local authorities will not say whether you are eligible or not until a place has been put on offer to you , but it 's still very much worth your while to find out all you can from your local education authority . |
| 21 | You will now perhaps be wondering whether or not you should be coached for your audition . |
| 22 | After that came my training at LAMDA and the realisation that make-believe or not , acting was hard work . |
| 23 | It tends to have an active or passive belief , whether articulated or not , that it is either superior to , or rightfully distinct from , other similar groups . |
| 24 | Whether or not he was equally aware of a similar alienation process in asserting the catholic nature of the nation is perhaps more open to debate . |
| 25 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 26 | Of course , Irish clergy and laity are sometimes at the forefront of political religious change in other countries , and a lively Irish intellectuals ’ religion will continue : but whether or not it will eventually affect the structure of power is another matter . |
| 27 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 28 | We will see , wrote Harsnet , whether he parts with it or not , whether his greed gets the better of his sentimentality . |
| 29 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 30 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |