Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I ask the House not to indulge in private conversations . |
| 2 | For example , to take some position as to whether the renewal of a licence is a ‘ higher ’ interest than an initial application is not to indulge in rigid conceptualism , but is rather a necessary step in reaching any decision at all . |
| 3 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 4 | It is difficult not to see in such debates a growing independence of science from biblical constraint . |
| 5 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 6 | Any male who chose not to mate with certain kinds of females would mate less than his non-discriminatory competitors . |
| 7 | Alyssia tried not to sound like one of those sceptics , but how she wished that she had decided to go into Nice instead and do some shopping . |
| 8 | ‘ A joint agreement by the media and the Government not to report on particular matters . ’ |
| 9 | This is not to disparage in any way the commitment of health workers to physical rehabilitation which will sustain or restore people 's physical independence , especially following illness or accident . |
| 10 | Shot-shy Omagh were unlucky not to equalise with long range efforts from full back John Quigg and Lee King , but gradually they lost their way . |
| 11 | Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England . |
| 12 | The Board is entitled to require you not to attend at any place of work and they may otherwise suspend you from the performance of your duties under this appointment where that course is a necessary precaution in the public interest or otherwise in the interests of the Board pending the outcome of criminal , disciplinary or other investigations or proceedings and where no alternative course is reasonably appropriate . |
| 13 | It would be a mistake , in Gandhi 's view , to allow ahi sā to become a fetish , and not to kill in certain circumstances could be regarded as a form of hi sā rather than ahi sā . |
| 14 | The psychologist and the healer must be under rigorous discipline if they are not to fall into this trap . |
| 15 | Even if it 's not used , it 's a good piece of equipment to have and would help some serious writers — Iris Murdoch , for one — not to fall into dreadful traps of bathos and sententiousness . |
| 16 | ‘ We decided not to go down this road last September , as we had considerable doubts about the financial arrangements . |
| 17 | Bernard , appreciative that Laura in New York would be treated as a queen of design , an extraordinary superwoman who had singlehandedly achieved it all , accordingly decided not to go on this trip . |
| 18 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 19 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 20 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 21 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 22 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |
| 23 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 24 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 25 | It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care . |
| 26 | ‘ But we had arranged not to go until next week . |
| 27 | The movies of the depression were not to go after that kind of realism . |
| 28 | Rider was remanded on bail of £10,000 , a condition of residence at an address outside the area , not disclosed in court , not to go within five miles of Great Totham , not to drive any motor vehicle and not to contact any prosecution witnesses . |
| 29 | ‘ Harry you are not to go near that cottage not even of going near it — and I can read your thoughts by now . |
| 30 | Police are advising people not to go near eastern Paris on Sunday because of the massive congestion that is expected . |