Example sentences of "[prep] not [v-ing] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I suppose she felt pretty awful about not inviting Amy to the party . |
| 2 | Fulham were ordered to pay the overdue sum , amounting to £20 4s 5d , plus three guineas expenses , and Leeds were reprimanded for not taking money at the gates . |
| 3 | She also criticised the council for not banning cyclists from the area . |
| 4 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 5 | The Treaty of Rome has given the Commission the power to take member states to the European Court of Justice for not implementing directives within the required timetable . |
| 6 | With a sudden pang of remorse , he reproached himself for not telling Zohra about the warnings he had received , if warnings they were , about the messages he had decided to ignore , on her behalf as well as his own . |
| 7 | Where order is concerned , it appears that teachers are disrespected not only for not meting out appropriate punishment when deserved ( within the official theory ) , but also for not exercising discipline within the classroom . |
| 8 | Chapman laid part of the blame for not winning promotion on the loss of two vital points at Clapton Orient in March , at a crucial stage in the race . |
| 9 | The report criticises the authority for not giving help to the family and ensuring that it maintained contact with Horler . |
| 10 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 11 | Rather than investigate ways of cleaning waste water , researchers at the German Textile Research Centre decided to explore the possibility of not using water in the dyeing process at all . |
| 12 | The function of the court in such circumstances is to strike a reasonable balance between the conflicting considerations of not preventing redevelopment on the one hand , and giving the tenant a reasonable degree of security of tenure on the other ( ibid ) . |
| 13 | Light claims the NHS comes out badly on the Cochrane test for effectiveness ; it is worse than most systems in not treating patients in the most effective place and preventing only what is preventable and poor on openly evaluating effectiveness against non-established alternatives and minimising ill timed interventions . |
| 14 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 15 | Katharine was tempted to use too much inside rein to create the bend , and was therefore losing Benji 's shoulder by not keeping hold of the outside rein . |
| 16 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
| 17 | And the IRFU did nothing for its cause by not awarding caps for the matches against Canada and the United States and by refusing to pay the players the regulation daily allowance because the tour was one day short of the stipulated duration . |