Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The measures of family background and ability can then be used to control the different intakes to schools and thus to estimate differences in the effectiveness of schools with respect to the outcome measures listed above . |
| 32 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 33 | However , if you are charming and efficient you may actually get booked again by the venue : Similarly , all sorts of things often go wrong on stage , and the golden rule here is not to communicate mistakes to the audience . |
| 34 | The problem of insufficient staff to be able easily to absorb absences from the workplace to attend group training sessions was commented on by all except the largest libraries , with some libraries apparently regarding this lack of ( indirect ) staff resource as paramount to preventing any in-service training programmes being carried out , although as was emphasized by The Library Association Working Party on Training : |
| 35 | ‘ We know Clydebank will make it difficult for us on their own ground but it is important to this club that Aberdeen go through to meet Hibs in the semi-finals , ’ said manager Willie Miller . |
| 36 | Hence , the development of " Social Europe " by imposing high minimum employment standards , is crucial if large sections of labour are not to suffer losses from the creation of the SEM . |
| 37 | The participants called on enterprises not to increase prices in the run-up to the elections in order to prevent unrest . |
| 38 | I ask my colleagues therefore to rest on the position that the way in which we coordinate our decision is a matter internal to Government and not to answer questions about the Cabinet Committee system . |
| 39 | The banks agree not to sell bonds below the issue price until the arranger of the issue is satisfied that the bulk of the deal has been sold , after which , members of the group are free to sell at whatever prices they wish . |
| 40 | The children are not to play snowballs in the porch . |
| 41 | Modern peace-makings seem not to entail marriages between the disputants , as the historic ones sometimes did ; but in all other respects contemporary practice accords with the image . |
| 42 | ‘ Nicola said he was the man sent over to organise things for the Mafia . |
| 43 | ‘ No , it 's when the government pays you not to grow crops in the fields . ’ |
| 44 | A file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , but the DPP decided not to press charges against the individuals concerned . |
| 45 | She abandoned the tricksy paths , forcing herself through a tunnel between purple rhododendrons , trying not to leave footprints on the soil . |
| 46 | Crime on the island is comparatively rare but tourists are warned not to leave valuables on the beach . |
| 47 | The enclosing matrix is a fine-grained sandstone , and the original calcite shell material has dissolved away to leave impressions of the shells on the sandstone . |
| 48 | Allow the patient to speak of what they notice to be wrong with themselves and try not to put words into the patient 's mouth . |
| 49 | As she began hastily to descend the rickety stairs she heard Lord Cumbermound say , ‘ You 're quite right , Thomas , not to let women into the priesthood . |
| 50 | With a shrug , he turned away to give orders for the care of the greys , and the visitors ' mounts . |
| 51 | Care needs to be taken not to start fires in the forests , especially in summer and autumn before the rains begin , when the foliage is tinder dry , and there are many forest fires every year . |
| 52 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 53 | The scenery — nothing remarkable — the very banalities of the vacation industry — sea , city blocks , beach , bronzed androgynous bodies , was nevertheless sufficiently different not to trigger associations of the past . |
| 54 | For the purchaser , it is important to establish in the asset sale agreement an undertaking by the vendor not to pursue debtors without the consent of the purchaser . |
| 55 | They have tended not to consider benefits to the gene itself . |
| 56 | On Oct. 20 Japan expressed regret over what it claimed was an alleged breach by France of an agreement not to disclose preparations for the shipment . |
| 57 | Kevin Keegan , Ian Botham , Sally Gunnell and Nick Brown , not to mention figures from the world of showbusiness , Max Boyce and Fiona Fullerton , all took their courtside tables for the running buffet which was served during the tennis . |
| 58 | Questions similar to this one seem to occupy an inordinate amount of the energies of scientists all over the world , not to mention grouses about the shortsightedness/injustice/lack of imagination of a straight thumbs down to a researcher 's pet proposal . |
| 59 | A staff of 1,400 employees of the North-Eastern Railway worked there , not to mention men of the North British and Caledonian railways who also had a part of the station . |
| 60 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |