Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 2 | This is to the effect that General Loehr prefers to surrender his forces to an Anglo-American command and not to Marshal Tito or Russian command in order to " save members of Croat armed forces and his own troops from Tito and the Bolsheviks " " On 7 May this appeal had been firmly rejected . |
| 3 | We are referring here to the offence of causing death by reckless driving , not to manslaughter . |
| 4 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
| 5 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 6 | It 's getting like that in Manchester — I was brought up not to stare but they stare at you , these workmen . |
| 7 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 8 | Then Macbeth seems to have a change of heart and says he is leaving whether he becomes king or not to chance . |
| 9 | The only case to apply this approach to the running of covenants is Boyer v Warbey [ 1953 ] 1 QB 234 , in which Denning LJ stated : " I know that before the Judicature Act 1873 , it was said that the doctrine of covenants running with the land only applied to covenants under seal and not to agreements under hand … |
| 10 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 11 | Fitt 's decision not to back Labour at the moment of crisis received the full backing of his SDLP colleagues . |
| 12 | As police mounted round-the-clock guards on properties last night , one of those named vowed not to back down . |
| 13 | He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections . |
| 14 | Leith was angry enough not to back down . |
| 15 | I suggest that the Hon. Gentleman goes to Holyhead and explains that in his view the priority should have been given to the television studios and not to Holyhead . |
| 16 | And no one 's told Mrs Padmore not to type all this bit . |
| 17 | Costs were awarded to the members ' agents but not to Lloyd 's . |
| 18 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 19 | They have these enormous canine teeth again stabbing each other and the thick blubber round the neck again as a defence and if the canines go in they go into the blubber and not to arteries and stuff like that . |
| 20 | There are only three solutions : the owners can decide that the pleasure of having a cat in the home is greater than the distress of living with scratched furniture , or some kind of covering that cats hate to scratch has to be put over the sides of the furniture , or the cats have to be trained not to strop the furniture with their claws . |
| 21 | He was not to waster them . |
| 22 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 23 | The mounting cost to the nation of State benefits pointed , if not to bankruptcy , at least to a dangerously unbalanced budget . |
| 24 | He is entitled to protect both of these : see Morris ( Herbert ) and Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571. 3.1 The employer 's special trade connections The employer is entitled only to protect his business against use of his special trade connections by others but not to protection from competition from his former employee : see the Morris ( Herbert ) case . |
| 25 | When he says that ‘ English ’ relates to such cultural characteristics as ‘ objectivity ’ in specific ways , he is referring to a language-system , not to English in the loose everyday sense . |
| 26 | in relation to er adjustices erm we can not support the Liberal Democrats er motions in relation to er , to T five , Mrs 's is , is right in saying our representatives of , of Hertfordshire who represent her own who represent erm Hertfordshire , we are also sort of citizens of the United Kingdom and not to afternoon we , er what ever it is now . |
| 27 | Celia had passed on Fowler-Troon 's information about the secret coin collection to Dougal , not to Lorton . |
| 28 | The very brief account she gave now was selective — it referred to Anna but not to Anna 's story ; Rome was a place of origin ; there was no mention of a Mena or a Mr James ( Simon she could not entirely subdue ) , the prince was a bare name . |
| 29 | Certainly not to Zoe . |
| 30 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |