Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the two armed men on the slaves ' camp orders not to leave their posts , as he did not want more hands taking advantage of the confusion to run away and join the maroons infesting Oualie nearby . |
| 2 | Firstly , in seven of our patients , the dialysis bags were expelled from the rectum along with rectal water ; in the others the rectum presumably did not contain more than small amounts of fluid . |
| 3 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 4 | There would not be a man at his table that night who did not eat more and drink deeper than he . |
| 5 | For the BBC , increased news did not mean more income . |
| 6 | The authors of the survey say that there was very little ‘ in the way of political activism ’ on the part of the Law Lords whose contribution to debates on bills was largely that of acting as ‘ resident technical consultants to the legislature on legal points ’ and it seems that those with records of overt political affiliation did not speak more than others . |
| 7 | It did not offer more choice but less than there was before . |
| 8 | It was a continual source of irritation to Lewis that Adam did not show more respect and deference to Hilbert . |
| 9 | She did not say more and when he came closer he saw that if it was sleep that had found her it was of a troubled nightmare kind , the sleep of the ill and the stressed . |
| 10 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 11 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 12 | The other question that needs answering is why the RCM did not take more care in choosing foster parents . |
| 13 | This option was given to working wives in 1948 and withdrawn in 1978 but women who had already chosen to pay the reduced rate were allowed to continue , provided they did not take more than a two-year break from employment after 1978 . |
| 14 | Even towns which were associated with particular manufactures did not have more than half of their occupied populations employed in them . |
| 15 | SPHINX did not need more information than that provided over word pairs to distinguish the correct hypothesis . |
| 16 | Although the present investigation did not reveal more platelet activating factor in colonic mucosa in patients with Crohn 's disease in remission than in controls , this hypothesis could be possible but needs further investigations . |
| 17 | But they did not get more help from community nurses and they were less likely to be admitted to , or to die in , a hospital or hospice . |
| 18 | Ms Baker forecast cuts in plans for the Festival if the district council did not provide more funds , but said she could not indicate at this stage which productions would go . |
| 19 | When one asks people what they think of their area and why they do not show more interest in it , their response is likely to be , ’ Why bother ? |
| 20 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
| 21 | When children hear both terms in the same instruction or in the same condition , they do not treat more and less as synonymous . |
| 22 | Before we rush into changes to the homicide law , we must ensure that such changes do not do more harm than good . |
| 23 | Services which do not intervene more than is necessary to promote independence . |
| 24 | Names and positions are as important as addresses and telephone numbers and some directories do not give more than the editors ' and advertisement managers ' names . |
| 25 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 26 | We do not want more reason but more steadfastness . |
| 27 | British Rail , for example , has conducted numerous surveys amongst the travelling public to enquire why they do not make more use of trains . |
| 28 | Pillar roses are in the main simply less vigorous ramblers — climbers and climbing sports are sometimes included — that normally do not reach more than about 9–10ft ( 2.7–3m ) in height or cane length . |
| 29 | Do not say more than you have to . |
| 30 | These patients may be at or below their ideal bodyweight so it is important they do not lose more weight . |