Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S5 At the moment very few pupils elect not to try Higher . |
| 2 | Under the terms of a final communiqué issued on June 26 all the factions agreed to implement an indefinite ceasefire and promised not to receive any further foreign military aid . |
| 3 | When she promised not to attend any more meetings without his permission , they were reconciled , but he died the same night , probably of a heart attack , with only Agnes in the house . |
| 4 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 5 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 6 | They said goodbye to each other and promised not to ignore each other the next time they met . |
| 7 | The have-nots promised not to acquire nuclear weapons . |
| 8 | With the possible exception of Mrs Major , who has to struggle not to look cheerful at the mention of leaving 10 Downing Street , and Sir Denis Thatcher ( ’ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time ’ ) , every good political consort must learn how to be a good loser . |
| 9 | Some amazingly well organised not to mention tight people , take their notes for this meeting on the back of the last meeting 's agenda . |
| 10 | But although recycling and reuse are extremely important and something we can all support , the real solution to the waste problem is to try not to produce any in the first place ! |
| 11 | She had to try not to become confused by what Marc was suggesting — that he would n't stand in Peter 's way if she herself was co-operative . |
| 12 | First , the banal but important point that things were not that bad over the 1960s for the mass of the electorate , so that those Labour voters who had neither expected not desired revolutionary socialism had no real reason to feel betrayed . |
| 13 | Opposition spokesmen are expected not to miss any oppertunity to expose government weakness in those areas . |
| 14 | But the precise meaning of section 1(1) has not received serious judicial attention before . |
| 15 | A somewhat more complex issue that has not received adequate attention in Britain is the meaning of the word ‘ profit ’ in the context of trusts , and some of the ideas being discussed resemble the strategies that have caused the Internal Revenue Service to question the tax exempt status of some American not for profit hospitals . |
| 16 | The relationship between the socio-economic character of a local authority ( L.A. ) and its expenditure on education is a crucial issue but it has not received adequate research attention . |
| 17 | Darlington Council , for example , has not received any hardship applications from small businesses since the introduction of the UBR . |
| 18 | Paul Hunter , who runs a coach company which ferries schoolchildren to and from sports grounds , claims he has not received any money from the council for the service in recent months . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 20 | By the way , I hope this might be considered for the ‘ Star Letter ’ as I find distribution to my local newsagent leaves a lot to be desired — if the distributor has not received enough copies , he does n't get any ! |
| 21 | * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection . |
| 22 | By contrast , LIFFE has not received comparable backing , either moral or financial , from UK banks or the UK government . |
| 23 | Finally , one area which has not received full justice in our coverage is the extensive empirical tradition of examining industries case by case to develop views on efficiency . |
| 24 | I am delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire , South-West ( Mr. Madel ) mentioned an important issue which has not received satisfactory answers in Committee , nor is likely to , in what will remain of the Report stage after the guillotine . |
| 25 | Nor do we know , because the Post Office has not adopted budgetary accounting , how these ‘ actual ’ results compare with its budget . |
| 26 | In spite of the attractions , Guide has not adopted this uniform approach , mainly because unifying rather different types of object does not make for simplicity . |
| 27 | A non-graduate , or a graduate ( Law or otherwise ) who has not obtained full exemption because he lacks one or more of the ‘ core ’ subjects in his degree , is required to take the new Common Professional Examination before the Final ; and this again needs a year 's attendance at a law school . |
| 28 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 29 | Although some of these points have been considered , our understanding of colonic function has not increased much and measurements of colonic pressures have not found their way into routine clinical practice ; measurements of transit have a more practical value in selected patients . |
| 30 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |