Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of other allegations made by Higgins against Kruger were either not proceeded with or found not to constitute conduct bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 2 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |
| 3 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 4 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 5 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 6 | APART FROM ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ , this was the only Smiths or Morrissey newie or reissue not to receive an NME review . |
| 7 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 8 | The secured creditor has the right to call upon the trustee to elect whether or not to exercise his power to redeem , and the trustee then has six months in which to exercise the power or decide not to exercise it ( r6.117(4) ) . |
| 9 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 10 | Many more left in the following months , either forcibly expelled by the occupying authorities or choosing not to live under Israeli military government . |
| 11 | In our experiments birds are trained to avoid motion by performing ( or learning not to perform ) a particular response such as pecking a key . |
| 12 | If it is left as an optional extra , it 's too easy to forget about it or to decide not to bother . |
| 13 | If there were times when Mains was not available or chose not to speak then those were his business , and his silence could be respected . |
| 14 | They must be notified of the LEA 's subsequent decision concerning the statement ( the LEA can modify the statement , leave it as it is , or determine not to make it ) . |
| 15 | Because many new mums ca n't produce enough expressed milk — or choose not to breastfeed — there 's a real need for donated milk from milk banks , but according to the National Childbirth Trust these are becoming few and far between . |
| 16 | If for some reason you can not or choose not to attend a course , then you will have to find some means of charting your progress with the limited help made available by colleagues . |
| 17 | The requirements of the standard itself does not ask you to look at accounts er , specifically , which is why you can choose to include them or choose not to include them . |
| 18 | Or did n't to have anything to eat ? |
| 19 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 20 | Some schools and LEAs have already begun to construct multicultural and anti-racist policies ; it is up to the majority of institutions that appear not to have grasped the urgency of the issues to follow their lead . |
| 21 | The questions that appear not to have been officially asked are to what extent will the projected gains accrue to areas already experiencing relative prosperity ; to what extent will these gains involve reductions in prosperity in underdeveloped/unfavoured regions and whether a transfer of some 4 per cent of the " net " gains is sufficient to compensate for such losses . |
| 22 | North told his colleagues that the release of the hostages was a personal obligation on himself , and that seemed not to put it too strongly . |
| 23 | She was determined not to be bludgeoned into submission by lack of money and a system that seemed not to care for mothers and children . |
| 24 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 25 | About women like me — and you who walk like ghosts through a world that tries not to see us . |
| 26 | Below , the spaceship docks , an enormous shelf that gapes at both ends beneath the domed superstructure , started to attract craft that preferred not to patronize the better-lit and reputable platforms . |
| 27 | To derive appropriate interpretations for its input , a natural language processing ( NLP ) system must take account not only of absolute constraints on possible structures and meanings but also of preferences that serve not to rule out individual readings as inherently unacceptable , but to give priority to more acceptable readings over less acceptable ones . |
| 28 | Franks smiled — obviously pleased by Blanche 's approval , Dexter believed , although trying not to show it . |
| 29 | Indeed , more than 30 per cent of clients are women who are generally more successful as they are better listeners and tend not to rush at obstacles . |
| 30 | And cared not to reply . |