Example sentences of "[not/n't] set [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | This is not to set up a system which once again asks women to do something painful and impossible , to juggle with all the expectations that come when we are working as wives and mothers and outside the home as well . |
2 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
3 | Why else would there already be the reported droves of tour operators and speculators visiting South Africa , if not to set up the same kind of hospitality package deals that South Africans were forced to buy in 1991 ? |
4 | Leigh Environmental now had six months to lodge an appeal with the Minister of the Environment , who would decide whether or not to set up a Public Enquiry . |
5 | He is dressing it up as a concession , but , without amendment ( a ) , if there is a Conservative Government post election — I do not think that will happen , but we should explore the fantasies in case there is — the Secretary of State could decide not to set up a further education council in Scotland . |
6 | Because of the significant degree of judgment involved in selecting methods and bases of valuation and the significant number of items which may be subjectively considered by the valuer , it is preferable not to set out , in detail , the means of arriving at the valuation . |
7 | After electrification in 1966 , the Bletchley train continued to pick up at Loughton , but not to set down at night . |
8 | ‘ We have to recognise the strong feelings among black and white people that the party should not set up an organisation which is racially exclusive , and could be seen as a form of apartheid . ’ |
9 | Hence the acceptance of professionalism did not set up a free market in football but bound players legally to one club and determined the maximum wage that could be paid to them . |
10 | Opposition parties reacted indignantly to Mr De Klerk 's overnight announcement that he would not set up a judicial inquiry . |
11 | One girl was a hard , chain-smoking sales machine letting me know I could not set up a multi-national congress without multi-national advertising . |
12 | It is primarily an explanatory one , it connects problems and explains why they are problems , and who for , and so does not set up bite-sized problems for the reformer to tackle one by one . |
13 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
14 | For example , we could not set up an experiment to test the effect on young babies of being left in complete isolation , except for being fed regularly . |
15 | They may not set up in practice on their own account for a further three years . |
16 | If the plaintiff was in possession at the time of the conversion , the defendant could not set up the jus tertii , unless he was acting under the authority of the true owner . |
17 | But Yeo told the NISW/ Community Care conference , ‘ Residential Care : The Way Forward ’ , the government would not set up a permanent forum on residential care . |
18 | Businessmen should not set up in a market where they will be powerless to enforce their credit terms . |
19 | But a small company may not set up and run its own scheme . |
20 | If this wife made such an application the husband could set up the fact of desertion as an answer to the claim , but he could not set up clause 3 as a bar to the proceedings . |
21 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
22 | ‘ They might not set up a road block , ’ said Jean , biting her lip . |
23 | Experimentally one can not set up just this configuration because of the difficulty in imposing constant concentration boundary conditions ( Section 14.3 ) . |
24 | The comparison does not set up the neat , formal differences such as those exploited by Weaver ( 1985 ) between the executive dominance of the Canadian parliamentary system and the checks and balances of the United States constitution . |
25 | But it was nothing she could not set right . |
26 | The Word I can not set supremely high : |
27 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
28 | The interventions of God do not set aside the need for careful evaluation . |
29 | Such research does not set aside the need for divine guidance , but the evidence produced by investigation forms some of the ingredients . |
30 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |