Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is difficult not to see in such debates a growing independence of science from biblical constraint . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The psychologist and the healer must be under rigorous discipline if they are not to fall into this trap . |
| 8 | ‘ We decided not to go down this road last September , as we had considerable doubts about the financial arrangements . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The movies of the depression were not to go after that kind of realism . |
| 13 | ‘ Harry you are not to go near that cottage not even of going near it — and I can read your thoughts by now . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it 's hard not to agree with those at the ICA who said that the legal precedent established by the Spanner trial should be properly contested ( the latest appeal will be heard by the House of Lords in December ) . |
| 15 | In any event , Miss Kyte — at least Theda , for that I know to be her real name — is not to lose by this . |
| 16 | I urge members , Chairman , not to hide behind this shabby amendment but to vote according to their consciences and their beliefs and to vote according to the views of eighty percent of the population that we represent and I urge other members to be as brief . |
| 17 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 18 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 19 | to the Chancellor 's announcement referred to pay awards in the public sector in their totality , not to relate in any way to the regularity or amount of increments . |
| 20 | But most women would prefer not to trust to that special ‘ glow of happiness ’ to give them sparkle on their special day . |
| 21 | Sikh ones have learned to live with the reality of this on their own terms , while Gujerati Hindu male egos appear in general not to suffer from this particular weakness at all . |
| 22 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 23 | Far better , of course , for it not to come to that . |
| 24 | She lay listening to these signs of a weather change and wondered whether Tristram had decided not to come after all . |
| 25 | Had he decided not to come after all or was he out on an urgent case ? |
| 26 | Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it . |
| 27 | Not to worry about that . |
| 28 | It 's probably simpler not to , not to worry about that that 's just a quick a bit of a short cut way of doing it . |
| 29 | The family lived a prosperous middleclass life in Berlin and Ash senior , says Sir Eric , was advised by colleagues ‘ not to worry about this silly man Hitler ’ . |
| 30 | But I spoke with Mr about half an hour ago on the telephone , told him not to worry at all , that |