Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include sincerity , honesty ( not to indulge in plagiarism or cheating ) , truthfulness , the avoidance of self-contradiction , a determination to be comprehensible , the intellectual courage to develop and hold a position of one 's own , a willingness to be subject to the demands of reason and evidence , an openness to other viewpoints or ways of going on , and according due ( but not undue ) respect to teaching and other staff . |
| 2 | Its task is to point beyond itself and not to indulge in self-glorification . |
| 3 | Apple , however , had decided to reduce its reliance on external technologies and , after some considerable debate , decided not to continue with Adobe 's PostScript alone but to further develop its own system software so that it could better control both type and graphics . |
| 4 | For these students , this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level . |
| 5 | Female science students may make the girls think again about their decision not to continue with science . |
| 6 | She would expect to work for at least ten years , but not to continue after marriage . |
| 7 | For , just as the individual has the moral right not to kill in violation of his own moral principles , a right recognised by law in this country since 1916 , so also it can be argued that he has the right not to be required to contribute through his taxes towards the maintenance of a professional army equipped with weapons of mass destruction to kill on his behalf . |
| 8 | Quite a lot of young girls , however , choose not to sue for child maintenance . |
| 9 | However , the party was very careful not to support in principle ministerial contact with the PLO , a stance which clearly angered Weizmann . |
| 10 | She had tried hard not to fall in love with him , preferring to play the field and maybe trap a man whose heart was fancy free . |
| 11 | ‘ Try not to fall in love with anybody else before tonight . ’ |
| 12 | On stage a man and a woman try not to fall in love . |
| 13 | Similarly in Newell v. Hicks ( 1983 D.C. ) a false statement offering to supply a free gift with a purchase of goods ( when in fact it was not free ) was held not to fall within section 14 because it was a statement relating to the supply of goods and therefore did not relate to the provision of services or facilities . |
| 14 | The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese . |
| 15 | They notified the applicant of their decision not to appeal by letter dated 23 November 1990 . |
| 16 | He decided not to appeal in order to highlight what he regards as the absurdity of the law in light of the increasing acceptability of direct and indirect contacts between Israelis and the PLO . |
| 17 | At half-past eleven the house was so quiet they decided not to wait until midnight . |
| 18 | We were in New York , and came round a corner to find fifteen Father Christmases trying to decide whether or not to go on strike . |
| 19 | He decided not to abandon it , not to go on foot . |
| 20 | Let's go and decide where not to go for lunch . " |
| 21 | They had already decided not to go for Display PostScript — the on-screen imaging model that matches the printer language — but to concentrate on enhancing QuickDraw . |
| 22 | He decided not to go for repair grants . |
| 23 | , writes : MY MOTHER , many years ago , used to sing a song about a miner , warned by his daughter not to go to work because she dreamed of a disaster . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's usually me imploring you not to go to work . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 26 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 27 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 28 | It 's just summat not to go to court in n it ? |
| 29 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 30 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |