Example sentences of "[prep] not [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | My apologies for not saying so at the beginning . |
| 2 | Crosland opposed this , and thought Crossman ‘ crazy ’ for not doing so as well . |
| 3 | Unless you are given convincing reasons for not doing so , insist on a reduction |
| 4 | One good reason for not doing so is that ‘ grandmother cell ’ models have real difficulty in explaining how our visual systems cope with novel input . |
| 5 | That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) Subsection ( 3 ) above does not apply where a society or associated body is authorised by the scheme to relieve itself of its obligation to take the steps it is directed to take or pay the compensation awarded by the society 's undertaking an obligation to give the requisite publicity for the reasons for not doing so and the society undertakes that obligation . |
| 7 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 8 | Such an order should be made save where there is good reason for not doing so , for example , where the proceedings have been instituted or continued without good cause . |
| 9 | A certain amount of cross-border examination to ensure that European Community rules are met already exists and , as my hon. Friend knows from what I said earlier , in future we shall have much tighter enforcement rules to ensure that those countries — all of them — that sign up to European directives will have to obey those directives or face fines for not doing so . |
| 10 | One of the common threads that have emerged from my dicussions has been the necessity , when considering how the law might be reformed , of tackling the question of protecting employees from being obliged by their employers to work on Sundays , against their wishes , or incurring any penalty for not doing so . |
| 11 | Mr. Ian Hunter , Secretary General of the Association of Optometrists , wrote in reply to the Minister 's letter : ’ To restart national health service eye examinations for the over 60s would now cost about £25 million but the cost for not doing so will be two or three times as much because eye disease will remain undetected until treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 12 | The British Broadcasting Corporation , for instance , stressed in particular the need to observe the advice of military authorities " unless there are very strong reasons for not doing so " , and the need to be " circumspect " in showing pictures of death and injury of soldiers and civilians . |
| 13 | The price for not doing so was costly mistakes and severe stress . |
| 14 | Of course no experience is self-authenticating , but it is reasonable to accept claims made on the basis of experience ( *b and c ) unless sufficient reason is produced ( *a ) for not doing so . |
| 15 | The unemployed movement served to increase Communist influence , but was attacked for not doing so fast enough . |
| 16 | The reasons are that even a partly defective vapour barrier can still be effective , and preservative treatment to timber is carried out , following the disastrous effects of not doing so during the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 17 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 18 | The results of not doing so are all too obvious . |
| 19 | That in itself was a minor triumph for the Popular Front agitation ; Chamberlain moved partly because he feared the domestic consequences of not doing so . |
| 20 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 21 | The risk of confronting the disease may be the possible death of the sufferer ; the risk of not doing so may be his or her almost certain death from the progression of the disease . |
| 22 | The effect of not doing so is the likelihood that the Conservative Party would lose the next election on the back of a gravely wounded economy . |
| 23 | The court has a discretion under s33 to override the s11 or s12 limitation periods if it would be equitable to allow an action to proceed having regard to the prejudice to the plaintiff of applying the s11 or s12 periods against the prejudice to the defendant of not doing so . |
| 24 | There was no point in not answering so he said : |
| 25 | That Aethelberht , king of Kent , exercised authority over his brother , Eadberht , is clear from the way in which it was necessary for Ealdwulf , bishop of Rochester , to secure confirmation of a grant of land from Eadberht in 738 from Aethelberht and Nothhelm , archbishop of Canterbury , acknowledging that he had erred in not doing so sooner ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but nothing is said of any necessity to secure Aethelbald 's confirmation . |
| 26 | If there is a specific obligation to carry out independent investigations , the expert would be at fault in not doing so . |
| 27 | Very young infants are loathe to give up their precious bodily products and this is largely because children gain pleasurable sensations from not doing so . |
| 28 | Davies says there is some evidence to suggest that showing the consequences of violence is preferable to not doing so . |
| 29 | The decision lies between the possibility of losing future business by stopping supplies or of running the risk of a bad debt or a slow paying debt by not doing so . |
| 30 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |