Example sentences of "[adj] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trusting Dougal not to do a bunk with ten thousand quid was insane . |
| 2 | The scenery — nothing remarkable — the very banalities of the vacation industry — sea , city blocks , beach , bronzed androgynous bodies , was nevertheless sufficiently different not to trigger associations of the past . |
| 3 | Would not it be legally wise and politically sensible not to go ahead with the compulsory order to bring in bulldozers until difficulties with the European Commission and local people have been resolved ? |
| 4 | So it seemed sensible not to go on , ’ said Sir Ranulph . |
| 5 | He was sensible not to contest the leadership as he commands less support across the party than Smith . |
| 6 | Well erm , children , people with children who do n't know how to behave , or , or at least use your house as a sort of running ground , erm , not living in London , er , er , I have lots of guests that come from London , sort of using it as , as much as one would exercise dogs , and , and let their children r run , like round the house , and then er , I 'm sort of saying things like , oh you 're , you 're very , very sensible not to have decorated until after your son 's older . |
| 7 | Too narrow-minded not to suspect . ’ |
| 8 | I am a bit embarrassed not to have written sooner but , inter alia , have been a little ‘ below par ’ this last week with a stinking cold and sore throat . |
| 9 | Well the trend though over all is absolutely clear , that the Labour Party is committed to increasing women 's representation and is absolutely on that path , we 've more Labour women MP s and increasing numbers of women in the shadow cabinet it 's only in the end of the nineteen eighties , as recently as then , that we had no women in the shadow cabinet , now everybody agrees that it would look quite wrong not to have women in the shadow cabinet , we 've got a woman deputy leader , three women in the shadow cabinet , and therefore we 're definitely moving forward . |
| 10 | They say that it 's OK not to want sex just after your child is born . |
| 11 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 12 | On the platform , Mr Florio asked the party faithful not to become too complacent . |
| 13 | She complained that British men must be homosexual not to make a pass at her or look at her legs . |
| 14 | The young seem disposed not to like it ; older people , among them Classical scholars , think better of it , feeling perhaps a greater reverence for the name and nature of Alfred Edward Housman . |
| 15 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have been careful not to lay down specific periods for the bids to come in , because , as I have said many times , it may take longer for some management-employee buy-outs to be lodged than others . |
| 16 | It is possible that Childebert and his mother , Brunhild , had some sympathy for Gundovald , who was careful not to lay claim to Childebert 's territory ; indeed he took oaths on Childebert 's behalf . |
| 17 | They glide silently towards him , careful not to alert the others . |
| 18 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 19 | Zuwaya men , for instance were extremely careful not to touch the marriageable daughters of their kin , friends and neighbours . |
| 20 | He was also careful not to touch the wall . |
| 21 | He held the door open for her and she was very careful not to touch him as she passed . |
| 22 | Marc took a step forward as if about to restrain his younger brother by sheer force , but again Sarella stepped between them , hands outstretched , grasping Peter by the arm , though she was careful not to touch so much as the edge of Marc 's sleeve . |
| 23 | However , as with any grammatical category , a translator working from a language with a category of number into one without such a category must be careful not to overspecify this type of information in the target text . |
| 24 | It 's like I 'm real light — you know , like one of them silver balloons — and every step I have to be careful not to float off . |
| 25 | With a longer dissertation , be careful not to overload the first part , especially if it is a biographical summary , a description of historical context , or a literature review — all of which are potentially interminable . |
| 26 | Be careful not to miss the opportunity to compromise . |
| 27 | As a starting point the role can create highly dramatic moments , but be careful not to choose a role which then limits you . |
| 28 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 29 | Be careful not to install a mirror in such a position that it looks like a door , which people might then try to walk through ! |
| 30 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |