Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odd German shell was bursting in the field about two hundred yards away from the bridge , far enough not to do any harm , except possibly to the cattle . |
| 2 | She 'd checked the impulse when she realised that since Travis was being man enough not to ask that of her she really could not interfere , only for Rosemary to reiterate all she had told Travis before . |
| 3 | The golf journalists knew enough not to ask any leading questions in the middle of a round , and they were sufficiently wary of Jack 's temperament and his considerable command of the pointed rebuke . |
| 4 | Morton 's brief involves talking about the seven deadly sins , but he is talented enough not to need such an obvious vehicle . |
| 5 | ‘ All I know is the bastard things are good enough not to need much repair and there 's no real second-hand market in them . |
| 6 | Similarly , Samet added , the paint is flaking on Georges Seurat 's 1888 masterpiece ‘ Les Poseuses ’ , reason enough not to put that work on tour . |
| 7 | They 're also wise enough not to play any gigs with fellow countrymen Sultans Of Ping FC , for fear of encouraging a ‘ kooky Cork scene ’ . |
| 8 | It was natural enough not to want this sort of problem to deal with if it was n't absolutely necessary . |
| 9 | The study is a small-scale exploratory study which will involve intensive interviews with 54 married women whose children are old enough not to require that degree of care and attention which makes it difficult for a married woman to take up full-time employment . |
| 10 | Across the green , Doctor Lovell heard for the first time about the accident at the old people 's homes , and was magnanimous enough not to make any comment about Edward Young 's steps in front of his partners . |
| 11 | His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled . |
| 12 | Even the Soviet Union with its Siberian extractions is smart enough not to break this lucrative cartel . |
| 13 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 14 | Naturally , he listens to recommendations from the local councils , as he clearly did on this occasion , but he was absolutely right not to adopt all their suggestions . |
| 15 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 16 | It is important also not to pretend that library censorship is such a small problem that it can be safely ignored . |
| 17 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 18 | It is therefore — by definition — setting out not to use all the NHS facilities to the greatest extent . |
| 19 | Then , deciding boldly not to enter another beguiling-looking passage which , had he done so , would have wasted very many miles and many days ( it is now called Canal Jeronimo , and leads into an immense maze of lakes and passageways ) , he sailed directly north-west , up the Paso Largo and finally into the Paso del Mar . |
| 20 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 21 | Luce tried hard not to credit any other possibility , but the truth was , she felt like Alice , her confidence in the sanity of things shattered . |
| 22 | It means thinking before you speak , trying hard not to get all steamed up and confrontational . |
| 23 | The charge that the USA was abusing , rather than simply using , its position , only had weight to the extent that the United States was putting pressure on central banks abroad not to convert more of their dollars into gold . |
| 24 | We had been careful until then not to think that way . |
| 25 | ‘ But you have told me again and again not to do that . ’ |
| 26 | My task was to record it as objectively as possible and leave the reader to judge , yet not to provide some indication of the effect it had on me would be to paint a very incomplete picture . |
| 27 | It is advisable however not to introduce any new fish in the weeks immediately before the holiday as any diseases introduced could cause severe problems if not controlled . |