Example sentences of "[noun] not [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , negatively , he did not number them among the twelve , it may be held to have been his intention not to do so . |
| 2 | It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained . |
| 3 | Belief , in this sense , facilitates a more abstract acceptance of conformity ; it leads us to conform in the absence of immediate personal advantage from doing so ( or even where it would be to our advantage not to do so ) . |
| 4 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 5 | We are told that his decision not to do so was influenced by his impression that the judge was hostile to him so that he was reluctant to be questioned by the judge . |
| 6 | In the first set he simply was n't in the same class as his 21-year-old opponent in the huge Olympic Hall , at times pleading theatrically with Ferreira not to hit so hard , and giving his racket to a ball-boy as if to say , ‘ you have a go , you ca n't be worse than me . ’ |
| 7 | However , does he agree that as part of the process of reform , those who have a conscientious objection to working on Sunday should be given the statutory right not to do so ? |
| 8 | The package not discussed so far is ADRS . |
| 9 | Many were reportedly angered by the Amir 's decision to restore the National Council despite their request not to do so at a meeting on May 28 between opposition leaders and government ministers . |
| 10 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 11 | They say they did n't tell the owners because it 's their policy not to do so . |
| 12 | Yes , that 's one of the blessing of people not parking so much down the road now , they do n't empty out their ashtrays and their junk from time to time . |
| 13 | The Mother Superior noted this at once , but was far too wise to press Topaz , and warned the other Sisters not to do so either . |
| 14 | ‘ The attendance ’ , said counsel for the defendant in Hunt v. Broome , ‘ is for the purpose of peacefully persuading a man not to work so the attendance must be in a position where the persuasion can be carried out ; otherwise its purpose is frustrated … |
| 15 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 16 | A few days later he returned to find Mr Crangle not looking so happy . |
| 17 | He remains a non-executive director of the north London club he has played for and managed and in a statement last night said he would proceed with his petition to buy out Mr Sugar ‘ unless advised by my lawyers not to do so . ’ |
| 18 | Over 2,000 dock workers immediately walked out despite the judgment and despite the advice given by their leaders not to do so . |
| 19 | I recreate the absent proprietor ’ , he says in The Thief 's Journal ( p. 129 ) ; and in a 1975 interview : ‘ I would like the world , and pay attention to the way I 'm saying it , I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world ’ ( Gay Sunshine Interviews , 79 ) . |
| 20 | What he needed was to break down and howl like a child , and it was the effort not to do so that was tearing at him . |
| 21 | This assumption seemed to be justified when Argentina and Bolivia , having shown some signs of willingness to recognise the Soviet Union , succumbed to British pressure not to do so . |
| 22 | However , in September US President Bush extended the US trade embargo against Vietnam for another year , despite significant congressional and business pressure not to do so [ see p. 37712 ] . |
| 23 | To satisfy Moore 's requirements an activity has somehow on the one hand really to somehow matter , and on the other hand not to do so on account of anything ordinarily thought of as of practical use . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not like doing a series of stand up gags you have to make the audience not feel so nervous . |
| 25 | Dispersal agents not mentioned so far include fish . |
| 26 | Like Plutarch , Alexander of Aphrodisias argued that not everything is the product of inevitable destiny , since things that are produced by reason and by artists in the exercise of their craft ‘ do not seem to be produced by them through necessity , for they make each one of them indeed , but they are equally at liberty not to do so ’ . |
| 27 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 28 | Is her promise not to do so good consideration for the husband 's agreement to pay the 30s. per week ? |
| 29 | He could think he was following the rule , when he was in fact not doing so ; the new sensation could seem to resemble the original one , when it does not resemble it in fact . |
| 30 | In 1958 , Rank had amalgamated the Odeon and Gaumont circuits , in defiance of an earlier undertaking not to do so . |