Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The school should seek not to make primary reading the fetish that is has been . |
| 2 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 3 | The government , reversing the uncompromising stand of the previous government of President Virgilio Barco [ see pp. 36844 ; 36889-90 ; 37119 ] , had already offered to reduce sentences and promised not to extradite traffickers who surrendered and confessed , in the hope that this would halt a cycle of drug-related violence and killings . |
| 4 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 5 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 6 | Second , the criteria adopted for a good decision are satisficing not maximizing rules . |
| 7 | Surely it has not received £250,000 or more . |
| 8 | Choice between these competing theories of relationship among the Recent forms has not received consensus ( compare refs 23 , 24 to refs 21 , 22 , 25 ) . |
| 9 | But no one can say Bishop Malduin has not received latitude . |
| 10 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 11 | The purchaser would still expect , rightly , to be able to obtain a remedy from the seller under the Sale of Goods Act even though he has not obtained ownership of the copyright subsisting in the computer program . |
| 12 | ( h ) Leaving aside the Court of Appeal decision in Lawrence , the overlap occurs where the accused obtains the property by deception but has not obtained ownership at the moment of the appropriation . |
| 13 | As well as there being no theft , the accused has not obtained property , the petrol or the food , by deception because he obtained the property before the deception . |
| 14 | Sir John died seven years ago , but in all that time Lavinia has not increased Benedict 's allowance , as she might well have done , nor made any provision for his accommodation , other than saying that he might live at Merchiston Lodge if he chose . ’ |
| 15 | This is the authority which has not increased school meal prices for 11 years , since 1981 ; it has been expelled from the Museums Association for selling pictures and using the money for non-museum purposes — and so on , and so on , and so on . |
| 16 | I , hope , too , that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will address the technical problems of billing , particularly carry-over yearly billing , to avoid current confusion with many charge payers , because I regret that separate billing has not increased accountability . |
| 17 | ‘ Members will be pleased that the Chancellor has not increased tax in this Budget , but will watch the impact of the tax increases proposed for 1994-95 and 1995-96 … we are pleased that tax on whisky is not to be raised , but perhaps the tax basis should be brought into line with tax on other alcoholic drinks , ’ said Andrew Moore , director of the chambers . |
| 18 | If B does not yield and the contract is broken , then A 's threat has not caused C to suffer loss . |
| 19 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 20 | Inheriting wealth has not led Laing into a flamboyant lifestyle by any means . |
| 21 | Yet there is evidence that evaluation has not kept pace with the development of courses in bibliographic instruction . |
| 22 | Organ donation has not kept pace with the demands for transplantation , and a considerable minority of patients die having been accepted for , and while waiting for , transplantation . |
| 23 | Sadly , teaching of languages in schools has not kept pace with the relevant technological advances , but we find now that it is almost never necessary to recruit an individual specifically for linguistic skill . |
| 24 | While lesbian visibility has increased , community acceptance has not kept pace with it . |
| 25 | Thus Jowell has commented that ‘ the major omission of the report is its failure to see development control 's place in a planning system whose scope has expanded radically since 1968 … somehow development control has not kept pace with this change ’ . |
| 26 | As McGuire 's experiments on inoculation showed , such truisms can be defenceless against criticism , because the holder of a cultural truism has not developed justifications to defend the truism when under argumentative attack . |
| 27 | The main reason for squinting is that a baby has not developed three-D ( binocular ) vision , which is what stimulates her eyes to move together . |
| 28 | Clough , who has not replaced England star Des Walker following his £1.5 million move to Italian club Sampdoria in the summer , has drafted in 21-year-old midfield man Keane instead . |
| 29 | Experience during the past nine years indicates that in its new form guardianship has not gained popularity , and many social workers consider both that it is unenforceable and that it may be an unethical constraint on individual freedom . |
| 30 | They are often promoted , correctly , as floor cleaners and for cleaning friers and other fat using equipment where the soil has not reached carbonisation stage . |