Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [not/n't] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 2 | Only those who were regarded as ‘ fit ’ could be trusted not to trade on the despair of people , at their wits end , reduced for the first time in their lives to seeking a loan . |
| 3 | ‘ ( a ) A person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse . |
| 4 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 5 | It proposes setting up a sort of Federal Reserve system of central banks in which all 15 republics would be represented — and which would be told not to lend to the government . |
| 6 | It can be extremely helpful if the therapist tells the patient that he is concerned about him , although caution must be exercised not to step outside a professional relationship nor to encourage over-dependency . |
| 7 | And , since he took as starting points the avoidance of waste and of idleness , he argued : let care be taken not to leave in the instance of any individual whatever the smallest fragment of ability unemployed . " |
| 8 | Care must be taken not to over-commit on the information which will be provided . |
| 9 | Care must be taken not to over-commit on the information which will be provided . |
| 10 | I also suggested that Britons should be urged not to ask for a chance to look at the remains until the situation improves . |
| 11 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 12 | For these reasons I have considered anxiously whether , if the law should be held not to provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel , the need for adequate protection of the reputation of such an authority would be sufficiently met by other remedies . |