Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole point of this afternoon was to advertise my company , not to go for a jaunt along the river . ’ |
| 2 | One of Mr Gould 's followers , health spokesman David Blunkett , urges Labour not to go for the unity of the graveyard . |
| 3 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
| 4 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 5 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 6 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 7 | Even so , at the very least you ought to make sure that you understand fully what you are committing yourself to before deciding whether you can afford not to press for the document to be amended . |
| 8 | Indeed , this union had a campaign of sending postcards out to MPs asking them not to vote for the abolition of Wage Councils . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , here you are now , which is the main thing , ’ said Rupert a little awkwardly , yet determined not to apologise for the remoteness of his house when he remembered the hours he had spent waiting in the rush hour for a Green Line bus to their house at Warlingham or Woldingham or some such rustic name . |
| 10 | Like Mr Rocard in 1988 , Mrs Cresson decided not to call for a vote of confidence on her new government 's programme , outlined to parliament on May 22nd . |
| 11 | Rincewind decided not to ask for the return of his five remaining rhinu . |
| 12 | But in a statement to an inquest in Bishop Auckland yesterday , Jacob Blenkinsop , of Northam Close , Stainton Park , Middlesbrough , said truck driver Ian Burrige was not to blame for the accident near Sedgefield on March 5 . |