Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the air-conditioned House of Commons , set in the English climate , and with the long recess allowing members to look for long hot beaches , such a plagiarism illustrated how not to employ catch-phrases of the day . |
| 2 | Another argument is that Diamant provided invaluable technological know-how , while ELDO-Europa was a cautionary tale of how not to organize a complex European space co-operation programme . |
| 3 | What did I say about how not to input certain numbers ? |
| 4 | For him , the breakdown of working-class communities has meant that the traditional means by which men taught their relatives and apprentices how to hold their drink , and how not to allow occasional street brawls to get hopelessly out of hand , have disappeared . |
| 5 | How can we not fear them , and fearing them , how not hate them ? |
| 6 | They know how not to analyse it , it is true , but are given no positive guidance which will enable them to get around the menace of voluntarism . |
| 7 | The image of counter staff did need some polishing , in fact they had just put all their 1,300 people through a course teaching them ‘ how not to behave like Sharons and Traceys . ’ |
| 8 | In all probability you will also see how not to lay them out . |
| 9 | Coincidentally , the UK Government 's Department of Health launches a ‘ Help us to help you ’ campaign , wherein sick people are advised how not to waste the limited funds available for their treatment ( ‘ … remember to cancel appointments if they can not be kept … ’ ) and reminded by the Secretary of State for Health that ‘ Our primary care system is also the source of considerable envy abroad ’ , as I was reminded again during a recent trip to Russia . |
| 10 | It will also have learned a few lessons in how not to go about setting up a business . |
| 11 | HOW NOT TO DO IT |
| 12 | It was a study in how not to do something and it cost Chirac dear . |
| 13 | Here , I should say , is a good example of how not to do it . |
| 14 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 15 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 16 | This first one is only an excerpt because I 'm then going to contrast it with how not to do it |
| 17 | Again it was how not to use the monotype library . |
| 18 | The best place to witness how NOT to move together is the Aiguille Petite Verte in the Mont Blanc range on a busy summer day . |
| 19 | All characters offer splendid lessons in how not to incorporate research in dialogue , but again Casaubon is first among equals . |
| 20 | I loathe the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ because it means that never again will other works by Picasso be acquired , bankrupting the State in the process and providing an example of how not to paint . |
| 21 | Sadly , the one on page 17 shows how not to hold a paddle without making any such comment . |
| 22 | ' I ‘ 11 teach you how not to sleep when I get back . ’ |
| 23 | From every point of view , therefore , the Crabb affair was a classic example of how not to carry out a dangerous covert operation . |
| 24 | There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig . |
| 25 | ADVICE FOR surgeons on how not to get sued , from a ‘ Dr. X ’ , writing in the Journal of Medical Protection Society : ‘ Do not say ‘ oops ' ’ |
| 26 | There is education for pregnant women about how to have a child , but not about how not to have a child . |
| 27 | You will know about using the voice and body and know how not to exhaust yourself . |
| 28 | How not to make an impression . |
| 29 | They , on that video , are bill er bail applications , applications for plea in mitigation applications and three examples of how not to make an application before the court . |
| 30 | On the one hand , the supporters need to learn how not to collude with any counterproductive dynamics of the institution they are trying to serve ( such as the expectation of direct advice , collusion with which would further heighten the expert image of the ‘ deskilling ’ specialist come to deliver solutions ) ; on the other hand , since their primary task is augmenting the teachers ' own skills , they must be able to cope with attributed evasion of responsibility , with not knowing their job , with letting people down . |