Example sentences of "[adv] not [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was civil servant enough not to ask a simple question if a fancy one would do . |
| 2 | It 's bad enough not to have a honeymoon . ’ |
| 3 | They have all introduced a discount scheme to enable those unfortunate enough not to have a job not to have a proper job the same access to all these facilities as those in work . |
| 4 | He hoped she would be civilized enough not to make a scene . |
| 5 | Should you be unfortunate enough not to find a solution by this means , then you may have lost the alignment of the disk read/write heads . |
| 6 | Not , I admit , the kind of explosives you have down there but we know enough not to trigger a bomb by accident . ’ |
| 7 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 8 | The tenant should be careful also not to agree a too restrictive period of time in which to carry out remedial works . |
| 9 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 10 | PRESIDENT Yeltsin staved off concerted attacks by hardliners yesterday as Russia 's highest legislature voted narrowly not to table a motion of no confidence in his radical government . |
| 11 | In medicine , we talk in general terms of a patient 's ‘ right to know ’ , but also of a doctor 's liberty , sometimes not to tell a particular patient for good reason . |
| 12 | It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home . |
| 13 | ‘ I was very disappointed indeed not to get a World Cup game ’ , Aherne says . |