Example sentences of "not [to-vb] the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 2 | This is not to condone the abuses of transit animals . |
| 3 | Because of this I warn you not to cross the moors at night . |
| 4 | Anyway , you ca n't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice . |
| 5 | To assign a role to culture is not to resolve the problems of structure versus action because the here and now culture , whatever its foundations in historical action , can be regarded as a component of social structure in a general sense . |
| 6 | At the same time it must be remembered that the occupations of a quarter of the inhabitants were not stated ; some of them must have been farmers , and it is quite conceivable that many of the omissions were the result of uncertainty as to whether or not to class the persons in question as agricultural or industrial . |
| 7 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 8 | It was pleasant not to have the complexities of crime on his mind for a change . |
| 9 | They were not to have the grounds of referral explained to them , or a chance to have their say , for the second time . |
| 10 | This is not to dismiss the problems of realisation and effective demand that Luxemburg pointed to , rather I merely point out that equilibrium growth is possible even with a rising organic composition of capital . |