Example sentences of "[noun] not [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 2 | Mr Shamir refused to reverse his decision not to allow the United Nations to investigate the killing of at least nineteen Arabs by Israeli security forces . |
| 3 | then proposed and seconded the adoption of the Directors Report ( as amended by the proposal not to reappoint the present auditors ) and the Revenue Account and Balance Sheet , and this was carried unanimously . |
| 4 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 5 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 6 | invites the Bar Council to investigate the decision by the DPP not to prosecute the six police officers found responsible for the unlawful killing of . |
| 7 | Why have the laws of war not addressed the nuclear weapons question more successfully ? |
| 8 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 9 | Or for a civil engineering student not to appreciate the environmental implications of large-scale works such as the channel tunnel . |
| 10 | The question could be asked why should the topic of monarchy in Britain not resemble the cultural truisms of McGuire ( 1964 ) , which lacked even an implicit defence ? |
| 11 | Storage not exceeding the following heights are considered suitable for Ordinary Hazard systems . |
| 12 | In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties . |
| 13 | It does n't seem like it if you consider some of the most recent press reports : endless bickering about which London group will bid for the Olympics in the year 2000 ; the decision for the 1992 Games not to allow the slower marathoners to finish in the stadium because they will interfere with the closing ceremony ; Charlie Francis 's cynical opinion that most of the world 's top athletes are on drugs . |
| 14 | Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy . |
| 15 | Though the man and I have made a conscious effort not to follow the marked paths of our genders , this life , its setpieces , are clichés of gender in spite of our best intentions . |
| 16 | Thus it may soon come about ( may indeed have come about already ) that teachers will be advising ‘ average ’ pupils not to attempt the difficult questions ; or will separate them out to sit special papers suitable only for the F grades . |
| 17 | They will use the information not to understand the individual transactions recorded in the data , but the society(ies) that created it . |
| 18 | When sanding take care not to round the sharp edges . |
| 19 | Gorbachev 's warning to Honecker not to postpone the necessary reforms was a smoke alarm soon drowned by the blaze . |
| 20 | The door closed behind them and they crept quietly up to the top floor in order not to wake the sleeping boys downstairs . |
| 21 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 22 | The British courts have , however , chosen to distinguish the special facts of Webb , in order not to follow the ECJ rulings . |
| 23 | Mr Toubon was one of the few Right-Wing politicians not to criticise the pyjama-striped columns of Daniel Buren erected in the Palais Royal by Mr Lang — but he did tell the artist they were not his favourite work . |
| 24 | The court ordered disclosure to B. , for use on the hearing of the reference , of all witness statements and documents in the possession of the authority as a result of the investigation , on his implied undertaking not to use the disclosed documents otherwise than for the purposes of pursuing his criminal appeal on the reference , assurances having been given to informants that statements would not ordinarily be used otherwise than for the investigation of the complaint or for any criminal or disciplinary proceedings which might follow . |
| 25 | At last , when all the stalls were full , Lady Amelia gestured to the cantor not to begin the usual psalms and caused a stir when she herself rose and swept up to the lectern . |