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 .
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