Example sentences of "not [to-vb] the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children can appear not to like the taste of food and be not motivated to eat . |
| 2 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 3 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 4 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Harriet Hunt practises against adults , who would probably prefer not to risk the shame of defeat in public . |
| 7 | An initial scheme not to include the College of Art in the Polytechnic was turned down by the DES . |
| 8 | He is careful not to promote the theme of reunification , but talks of discovering ‘ a new way ’ , setting up structures of co-operation in the North between the two Northern Communities , with the support of the Southern government . |
| 9 | Thus to claim that Atlantis actually existed , or that Achilles actually existed , is not to ascribe the property of existence to Atlantis or Achilles qua objects of thought , but simply to claim that the world contained Atlantis or Achilles . |
| 10 | The IWC meeting took place against a background of growing acrimony , with the pro-whaling nations arguing that those opposed to commercial hunting on ethical grounds were : i ) interfering unacceptably with the economic livelihoods of whaling communities ; and ii ) misinterpreting the charter of the IWC , which was set up to regulate catches , not to debate the morality of whaling as such . |
| 11 | These are both highly controversial instances : Winterbotham 's pioneering account , Lewin 's detailed study , and Calvocoressi 's memoir disagree as to whether Coventry was sacrificed in order not to compromise the source of intelligence . |
| 12 | As with any other policy the insurers will commonly require exclusions against the following : ( 1 ) The adequacy of insurance arrangements The view of the insurers is that it should be for the purchaser to determine whether existing insurance cover for the business is adequate and if it is not to increase the level of cover with effect from completion . |
| 13 | In any event , the distinction between looking at reports to identify the mischief aimed at but not to find the intention of Parliament in enacting the legislation is highly artificial . |
| 14 | This is not to condone the abuses of transit animals . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the same biochemistry might be adapted not to eliminate the chance of pregnancy , but to increase it . |
| 16 | We should be careful , then , not to confuse the level of employment with the level of output in the service industries . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Harry rose from his chair , eager not to let the opportunity of escape slip from his grasp . |
| 19 | With a post officer close to retirement and a garage owner struggling with ill health , Parnell was desperate not to let the quality of village life plummet . |
| 20 | ‘ To put content before form is not to deny the importance of pedagogy , or to equate content with a perpetual diet of politics . |
| 21 | If students were not to share the cost of tuition fees as well , the system would continue to transfer resources from the average taxpayer to the predominantly middle-class student body . |
| 22 | The agreement follows the British Government 's decision last summer not to share the cost of setting-up of a proposed North West European Loran-C network , and as a result eighteen UK Decca stations are to have their control and transmitting systems modernised and a new central control facility will be established . |
| 23 | On the sons and daughters of the farming family was imposed the strict necessity of abstaining from sexual activity other than for the first born , so as not to impair the integrity of land succession . |
| 24 | In the case of a simple penal code , acceptance of its punishment is the best action by the deviant given that the alternative is reimposition of the punishment path : punishment outputs are so chosen that it is better not to postpone the date of reversion to collusion than to make a short-term gain from deviating from the punishment path . |
| 25 | She chose not to reduce the scale of expenditure at Merton , which remained as high as ever throughout 1806 and 1807 , and no tradesman saw fit to say No to her . |
| 26 | So I d I am very much minded not to pursue the option of purchase . |
| 27 | Although Reagan was a right-wing candidate , he was careful not to repeat the mistake of Goldwater in 1964 of allowing himself to appear an extremist . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | William Douglas was the obvious choice militarily ; but with Scotland 's High Steward and High Constable now present , not to mention the Earl of Moray and Douglas 's uncle , and even Sir Simon Fraser older and more senior , that would not do . |
| 30 | With modem medicines , not to mention the state of religion in contemporary France , time has moved on . |