Example sentences of "[noun pl] not [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there . |
| 2 | The prospect of their victory has prompted the federal judge overseeing the school-desegregation plan publicly to warn the candidates not to make promises he will not allow them to keep . |
| 3 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 4 | But the researchers also reported ‘ an irritating tendency for some Ugandan subjects not to answer questions directly . |
| 5 | Moreover , he urges his readers not to join sects that make their adherents abandon their families , give up their money and worldly interests , and lead restricted lives that are ordered entirely by the rulers of the sect . |
| 6 | The Elton Committee urged schools not to stereotype pupils from certain racial groups as troublemakers . |
| 7 | They have advised schools not to make copies available to parents . |
| 8 | Ayatollah Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , in a speech on June 10 said that there had been disorder in three towns ( Mashad , Shiraz and Arak ) where a small and subversive counter-revolutionhad taken advantage of the authorities ' leniency ; he warned municipal institutions not to provide pretexts for the stirring up of further disturbances . |
| 9 | Sorry , to , I 'll say that again to fit front and rear lights during production thus cutting down the number of accidents involving cyclists not showing lights during the hours of darkness even farther . |
| 10 | Detective Chief Superintendent Cole , the final witness at the inquest , said he was unable to interview the two arresting constables , as they had been advised by their solicitors not to answer questions . |
| 11 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 12 | Specific instructions of this type are unlikely to provide material for challenge because of : ( 1 ) the policy of the court in allowing final determination by experts on all matters including construction of documents ( see 13.9 ) and ( 2 ) the practice of experts not to issue decisions accompanied by reasons ( see 14.7.7 ) . |
| 13 | TSB and Yorkshire , the only other main issuers not to charge fees , merely say they have ‘ no plans as yet ’ to introduce a charge . |
| 14 | Western intelligence sources in Cambodia have claimed that Pol Pot , de facto leader of the Khmer Rouge , has issued a directive telling Cambodians not to kill animals for any reason . |
| 15 | She 's had to restrict the amount of time he spends playing them , and she 's warning other parents not to let children use the games for long periods unsupervised . |
| 16 | The Cuban leader instructed his negotiators not to accept loans from Washington , despite the apparent willingness — even eagerness — of the State Department to extend them . |
| 17 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
| 18 | Belgians not to sell tickets for Ibrox |
| 19 | Use drawing packages not paint packages wherever possible . |
| 20 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 21 | The agreement also featured a commitment by the two national trade union confederations not to call strikes . |
| 22 | Dogs not wearing tags could mean a Control of Dogs order , a prosecution and a heavy fine . |
| 23 | Particular attention was paid to a proposal by New Zealand , relating to Article II:1 ( b ) , which was designed to ensure greater transparency and security in tariff bindings ( ie undertakings not to increase tariffs ) by clarifying the other duties and charges , in addition to ordinary customs duties , levied on imports . |
| 24 | Of the original concept , only weatherman Francis Wilson survives and even he seemed to be making conscious efforts not to call clouds ‘ white , fluffy bits ’ , as has been his trick . |
| 25 | If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’ |
| 26 | This group of professionals has not even bothered to ease the biggest problem facing entrepreneurs — apart from the unavailability of cheap finance — which is the lack of cash flow that results from customers not paying bills on time . |
| 27 | He was being paid to drive trains not pluck pheasants . ’ |
| 28 | There neither is , nor can be , any general responsibility in managements not to alter prices , or if they alter them , only to lower them . |
| 29 | But Keegan warned his players not to let standards slip following the controversial 4-2 defeat at Oxford on Monday . |
| 30 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |