Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Does the machine have an effective cool zone into which loose particles of food can fall so as not to expose the oil to carbonisation , which will reduce the life of the oil ? |
| 2 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 3 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 4 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 5 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | He was asked politely not to bring the rifle to lectures in future — or at least to leave it with the umbrellas in a corner of the room . |