Example sentences of "[noun sg] not to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting .
2 And er some of the things that er all assignment details are sent to the to the estate agent not to home .
3 In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public .
4 Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity .
5 Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars .
6 Fitt 's decision not to back Labour at the moment of crisis received the full backing of his SDLP colleagues .
7 A last ditch effort to persuade Virginia Bottomley to reverse her decision not to ringfence funds for drug and alcohol support has failed .
8 The reason for caution is the ‘ Kinnock kebab ’ : for earners on twice average income the prospective marginal tax rates will be unprecedented and the decision not to phase in the changes slowly will mean a quick fall in discretionary spending .
9 Hallin feels the band have a grim determination not to water down their sound having signed to a major label .
10 English law … has directed its attention not to ownership , but to possession , or , as it is called in the case of land , seisin .
11 I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere .
12 Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part .
13 The SLF has been pushing Government to ensure the interests of landlords are taken care of in the regulations but in the meantime , Mr Barlow said the advice not to relet was the only choice even although it would have a serious effect on entrants wanting to get into let holdings .
14 There is no reason not to abridge time .
15 After another fond peep at his sleeping face , she crept out of the room , softly closed the door , and gathering up her skirt in order not to trip over the hem on the way down the stairs , swiftly retraced her steps back to the kitchen and Cissie .
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