Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The participants called on enterprises not to increase prices in the run-up to the elections in order to prevent unrest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The children are not to play snowballs in the porch . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ No , it 's when the government pays you not to grow crops in the fields . ’ |
| 10 | A file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , but the DPP decided not to press charges against the individuals concerned . |
| 11 | She abandoned the tricksy paths , forcing herself through a tunnel between purple rhododendrons , trying not to leave footprints on the soil . |
| 12 | Crime on the island is comparatively rare but tourists are warned not to leave valuables on the beach . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They have tended not to consider benefits to the gene itself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 25 | The possibility of permission being granted for such a hunt was thought to be instrumental in persuading Japan not to break ranks with the IWC . |
| 26 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 27 | It 's safer not to have spaces between the function name and the opening bracket . |
| 28 | It 's safer not to have spaces between the procedure name and the opening bracket . |
| 29 | Well the trend though over all is absolutely clear , that the Labour Party is committed to increasing women 's representation and is absolutely on that path , we 've more Labour women MP s and increasing numbers of women in the shadow cabinet it 's only in the end of the nineteen eighties , as recently as then , that we had no women in the shadow cabinet , now everybody agrees that it would look quite wrong not to have women in the shadow cabinet , we 've got a woman deputy leader , three women in the shadow cabinet , and therefore we 're definitely moving forward . |
| 30 | As I have already observed , equity ought not to place creditors in the dilemma of having to choose between , on the one hand , risking the security being unenforceable , and , on the other hand , undertaking a duty of care . |