Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was angry enough not to back down . |
| 2 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 3 | The DES 's 1986 forecasts ( DES , 1986b ) allow the ratio to increase a little but still not to equality . |
| 4 | I went another ten yards , and another , careful always not to trip , holding onto branches as onto railings . |
| 5 | He had practically made up his mind that he would never go back — certainly not to Moyalla and probably not to teaching . |
| 6 | It 's getting like that in Manchester — I was brought up not to stare but they stare at you , these workmen . |
| 7 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 8 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 9 | Escape can be a strong motivation for travel , but according to the great traveller Freya Stark , ‘ The true wanderer , whose travels are happiness , goes out not to shun , but to seek . ’ |
| 10 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 11 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
| 12 | Things like how not to mouth off about any ideas you might have . |
| 13 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 14 | When not to Massage |
| 15 | Perhaps she was only going to warn her yet again not to trip over the electric cables . |
| 16 | His long reflection on the divine ordering of the universe did not extend to principles of political organization , and certainly not to opposition to the established order . |
| 17 | The idea is a relatively new one to engineering but certainly not to planet earth : collagen , keratin , chitin and cellulose are some of nature 's strong fibres and make possible everything from bones and lobster carapaces to giant sequoias . |