Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament . |
| 2 | ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking . |
| 3 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 4 | Ron Dennis , McLaren 's managing director , said : ‘ It was a disappointment not to finish . |
| 5 | I do n't think they 've had a lot of trouble really speaking with Walsall supporters over the years because they seem to be er go to support the club not to fight and er |
| 6 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 7 | Brooklands is an impossible car not to enjoy — a unique motoring experience |
| 8 | I , and the rest of the family , laid back , thought of England and enjoyed it , because it is an impossible car not to enjoy |
| 9 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 10 | The judge concluded that there was thus a direct financial inducement for the agent not to enter into such activities but to restrict his post-termination employment to non-competing activities . |
| 11 | But I made up my mind not to move until the battle was over . |
| 12 | Last week , when he had left Joe Hyde in the bookshop , he had more or less made up his mind not to attend the meeting of the Irish sympathizers planned for this night . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've already made up your mind not to give them your account ? ’ |
| 14 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 15 | He had evidently made up his mind not to argue with anyone while on leave , and Sarah told Anne that his family thought that she was a good influence on him . |
| 16 | Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes . |
| 17 | Although , later , as the salvation of Verdun seemed assured , the Joffre coterie claimed the honours , there is nothing to suggest that , at the moment of de Castelnau 's departure from Chantilly , Joffre had definitely made up his mind not to retreat to the Left Bank . |
| 18 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 19 | Also , it takes an austere mind not to believe that the scope and limits of individual human action are an absolutely central theoretical crux for the social sciences . |
| 20 | The only study not to find a clear positive relationship between volume and volatility is the cross-section study of 25 futures by Telser and Higinbotham ( 1977 ) . |
| 21 | In the absence of powers of compulsion , the evident determination of the proposed witness not to cooperate in any way may well dissuade the court from making an order . |
| 22 | She considered it very remiss of the Social Work Department not to inform the Social Work Committee of what guidelines or policy it intended to use as a stop gap measure . |
| 23 | This principle instructs the hearer not to construct a context any larger than he needs to arrive at an interpretation . |
| 24 | It is this principle , which instructs the hearer not to construct a context any larger than necessary to secure an interpretation , which accounts for how we understand Sacks ' ( 1972 ) much-quoted sequence : |
| 25 | He knew the area and told his girlfriend not to worry . |
| 26 | Manchester was the only neighbourhood not to witness conversion of buildings to single occupancy above the city average . |
| 27 | It was a good hit , and she had to use all of her concentration not to go down . |
| 28 | Smoking was more common among Welsh parents , accompanied by an attempt not to smoke while close to the baby . |
| 29 | It was an apparent attempt not to highlight the deep rift between herself and her estranged husband Charles on the one day of the year which is symbolic of happy families . |
| 30 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |