Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 For the following nine seasons the club has guaranteed not to increase these season ticket prices by more than the annual rate of inflation .
2 Sixty per cent of 1800 managing directors interviewed did not expect any improvement either in sales or new orders and 80 per cent said that they would either not be recruiting new staff or shedding staff .
3 Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge .
4 ‘ I am now surprised if the parent involved has not got such a history . ’
5 The study stresses that the levels of caesium observed do not pose any risk to health .
6 Lucker has elected not to do this as he tells me he would probably pass out .
7 Although this practice is commonplace throughout the world , the authorities in the UK have preferred not to use this method , regarding it as ‘ anti-market ’ .
8 The National Coal Board having decided not to do this , control of the protest fell more and more to the police and to the criminal courts .
9 If the authority has decided not to perform some duty the applicant will often be satisfied with an order requiring it to act .
10 Nevertheless , the Vietnamese people had resolved not to accept any path other than the socialist one .
11 A levels as at present constituted do not meet these needs .
12 In October 1889 , the British Government became determined not to allow any threat to the British strategical supremacy in South Africa , and that led to the outbreak of another Boer War , which included some humiliating defeats in the initial stages and the two great sieges at Ladysmith and Mafeking which were finally relieved in 1900 .
13 It was reported on May 13 that a grand jury had decided not to indict any of the 17 officers who stood by and watched whilst their colleagues repeatedly punched and kicked the handcuffed man .
14 In fact , however , the amount levied did not approach this figure .
15 What the detail in Appendix I boils down to is that , in general , seeing how total costs or APRs compare does not make most people change their minds .
16 The plastic box chosen does not have any mounting bushes moulded in the base , so the board will be mounted firmly with nylon screws , nuts and stand-off pillars .
17 It is of interest that the addition of intragastric bFGF to sucralfate did not cause any further decrease in ulcer size despite the increase in DNA synthesis at the ulcer margin .
18 But the only speech delivered did not consider this second point and the summary treatment of the appellant 's argument is reflected in the opinion expressed , at p. 633 , that the point certified and argued was scarcely worthy of their Lordships ' attention .
19 Father and Mother have promised not to oppose this if only I leave them out of the matter …
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