Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many areas the Social Services departments have created the posts of interpreters to ‘ enhance service delivery , not to detract from the ongoing objective of attracting more staff with language skills . |
| 2 | The objective is not to report on an individual teacher , but appraisals have highlighted teachers whose performance does leave a lot to be desired . |
| 3 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
| 4 | It was ironic to realise she 'd once come close to despising her mother for that frailty , when she was battling hard now not to fall into the same trap herself . |
| 5 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 6 | Widnes , meanwhile , have decided not to appeal against the eight-match suspension imposed on Mike O'Neill . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 9 | It does need teaching , though we must be careful not to go to the opposite extreme , as many courses do , and patronizingly treat adult learners like new-born babes . |
| 10 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 11 | You 'll promise not to go to the next race , on Monday , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | There 's no excuse for them not to go into the medical practice booklet because they 've got fifteen thousand patients or thereabouts . |
| 13 | Sometimes the child is warned not to go beyond the specified page until the next interview . |
| 14 | I decided not to go until the following morning . ’ |
| 15 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 16 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 17 | As soon as the result was announced , however , Heseltine and then Hurd conceded to Major , and despite some initial confusion as to the correct procedure it was decided not to proceed to a third ballot in which a preference system of voting would have obtained . |
| 18 | If , however , no undertakings can be negotiated and the MMC investigates the merger and finds that it operates or may be expected to operate against the public interest , the Secretary of State has power to order the parties not to proceed with a proposed merger or to order divestment by the purchasing company if the merger has been completed . |
| 19 | The City Take-over Panel , which has to give its blessing to the ending of the contract , could take a dim view of the decision not to proceed with a formal bid . |
| 20 | If the Shareholders decide not to proceed with the proposed sale for any reason , the fees of KPMG and [ name ] will be calculated according to time spent and will not exceed £ [ x ] in the case of KPMG and £ [ y ] in the case of [ lawyer ] and all such fees will be payable by the Company . |
| 21 | ‘ ( 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 24 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 27 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 28 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 29 | So I decided that in order not to appear as a bad-tempered harpy , I would agree with everything Shirl said and then add : ‘ But … ’ |
| 30 | Every practising barrister knows before which judges he would prefer not to appear in a political case because he believes , and his colleagues at the bar believe , that certain judges are much more likely than others to be biased against certain groups , like demonstrators or students , or certain kinds of action , like occupations of property by trade unionists or the homeless . |