Example sentences of "[is] [verb] not [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one redress any of the members of this group have is to try not to appear on the poll tax register . |
| 2 | But he wants all the facts to be presented to the committee before a corporate decision is made not to invest in the UK . ’ |
| 3 | The Foreign Office says he 's decided not to appeal against the sentence in the hope that he 'll get home more quickly . |
| 4 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | The MS line is horizontal because the money supply is assumed not to depend on the rate of interest . |
| 6 | Sometimes the child is warned not to go beyond the specified page until the next interview . |
| 7 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |