Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 2 | At Westminster they disembarked at King 's Steps , Corbett pulling the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition by any of his colleagues in the Chancery or the Exchequer for he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter . |
| 3 | One does not want to occasion unnecessary delay in exercising those controls , but they must be sufficiently firm and rigorous to ensure that criminals who try to get into the country are detected and that illegal immigrants are similarly detected and prevented from entering the country . |
| 4 | Scotland have hardly used any back-row moves in their games to date , maybe because they do not want to put extra pressure on Weir in his first season at No 8 , but also because they do not have the same penetration from the base of the scrum as they have done in previous seasons . |
| 5 | Naturally , players and directors did not want to broadcast systematic evasion of FA rules . |
| 6 | There was thus a legal obligation to ensure the packets did not fall below the required weight , but on the other hand the company did not want to give free biscuits to customers by making the packets heavier than necessary . |
| 7 | After the judgment , Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said : ‘ We did not want to cause additional stress to Mr Hale but the evidence we had would not have supported a settlement of the size of the eventual award . ’ |
| 8 | No further steps were taken until 28th October , 1857 , when Wilson wrote to Hall , on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury , saying that as they did not want to incur additional expenditure on architects ' fees for further rejected plans for the Foreign Office , they had looked at Pennethorne 's plans and would use those . |
| 9 | We do not want to incur additional costs in putting this corridor display together . |
| 10 | Labour strategists claim their recent silence has been deliberate : they do not want to divert public attention from the poll-tax pantomime . |
| 11 | One does not need to draw exaggerated conclusions from the differences between the left and right hand sides of the brain in order to accept that humanists and scientists may be different kinds of people . |
| 12 | We do not need to reach firm answers to these questions to see that the realities of British politics — both the process of electing a parliament and the relation of that elected body to those who actually form and control the machinery of state — certainly do not neatly correspond to or embody the original notion of government by the people or the people 's representatives . |
| 13 | They do not need to kill large animals in order to live . |
| 14 | Do we not need to have real training for real jobs on the same basis as our major European competitors , notably the Germans ? |
| 15 | The lecturer can point to objects , diagrams etc. and the context of the lecture means that he or she does not need to make explicit statements about why everyone is there and for what . |
| 16 | You do not need to stick huge amounts of it onto your works of art to hold them in place . |
| 17 | A useful way to understand this is to remember that in a domestic context UK banks do not need to keep operational balances at the Bank of England equal to the total value of their deposits , just in case they are withdrawn . |
| 18 | The Prince of Wales had rules too , and they did not include turning social evenings into bear gardens . |
| 19 | As subsequently printed , the purpose of aid programmes in Southeast Asia was ‘ to demonstrate that the local national governments are able to bring benefits to their own people and thereby build political support , especially among the rural population ’ , or in the words of the Country Report prepared for the director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program : ‘ to ensure the existence of governments … which represent the legitimate nationalist aspirations of those Indo-Chinese people who do not desire to see communist-orientated governments in Indo-China ’ . |
| 20 | I begin by repeating the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North on 14 January , that in an organisation the size of the health service , which deals with so many patient contacts , it should not be surprising — indeed , it should be welcomed — that we do not seek to impose total uniformity on every single decision that is made about the treatment of patients across the country . |
| 21 | John Hayes , secretary-general of the Law Society , said the advantages ought to apply to all solicitors and the board should not seek to produce artificial criteria for selection . |
| 22 | ‘ The question should not seek to separate alternative therapies from orthodox ones , ’ he says . |
| 23 | They did not seek to attract new customers by the excellence of their pitches or facilities as music-hall proprietors did through the plushness and extravagance of their theatres . |
| 24 | For comparison , Toglia , Payne , Nightingale and Ceci ( 1989 ) found that the threat of taking a blood sample alone did not appear to affect overall levels of performance at list learning , face recognition for a nurse who did not in fact take a blood sample or cued recall for an earlier conversation . |
| 25 | Nucella does not appear to have fluid spaces between mantle and shell , as has been reported for limpets , but , in common with other littoral molluscs , a certain amount of seawater is trapped in the mantle cavity ( above the head ) ( Boyle , Sillar and Bryceson , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | However , NC protein does not appear to show high specificity for viral nucleic acid sequences in vitro . |
| 27 | It does not do to attribute human motives to animals but Billy said afterwards that it was as if she was reluctant to leave and did not expect to be back . |
| 28 | He warned that authorities would not hesitate to take decisive action against any groups or individuals that contemplated a disturbance of the peace . |
| 29 | Politicians who were able to offer such attractions did not hesitate to make good use of their powers to win votes . |
| 30 | It is clear that Coenwulf did not dare to risk ecclesiastical sanction by proceeding against Eadberht until the papal position on the matter was made quite clear . |