Example sentences of "[vb pp] not [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have come not to abolish but to complete them . ’ |
| 2 | They were designed not to achieve but to prevent . |
| 3 | Various active periods are quoted for the material , but the safest time limit is probably about two months ( though some charcoal medias are claimed not to leach when used up ) . |
| 4 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 5 | During the test periods subjects were instructed not to smoke or eat anything but drank water ad libitum . |
| 6 | Bahrain and Qatar eventually decided not to join and the UAE came into being , now a substantial oil producer and member of OPEC . |
| 7 | You would abort a DC if it was decided not to proceed and complete the proposed change . |
| 8 | Many people indeed have decided not to believe because of experiencing the sort of suffering that Flew identifies with the frantic father whose son is dying . |
| 9 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 10 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 11 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , I 've promised not to go until this practice is flourishing , and I 'm sticking to that . ’ |
| 13 | However , feeding weekly mashes with different ingredients from the daily feeding routine is effectively producing a sudden change in diet , something we are continually told not to do because of the potentially harmful results . |
| 14 | At his trial he would protest that , although he could remember being told not to hold or defend the Copernican system , he had no recollection of an injunction against teaching it . |
| 15 | When Control acknowledged his message , he was told not to leave until he had retrieved the video equipment from Beirut . |
| 16 | ‘ We kept making chances , and at half time were told not to panic and start wellying everything forward , ’ said Sharpe . |
| 17 | Witness said she was told not to worry and that her son would be fine . |
| 18 | To me the mist seemed like a veil of a moslem bride that is used not to hide but to reveal a subtler beauty to the lover . |
| 19 | The kadi affected not to notice and went smoothly on . |
| 20 | Further , it is evident that if a particular sample of metal is observed not to expand when heated , then the universal generalization will not be justified . |
| 21 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 22 | She had tried not to mind and was careful to shew nothing but pleasure . |
| 23 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 24 | Care was taken not to influence or constrain what students wished to communicate , though , where necessary , questions to clarify issues and comments were asked by staff . |
| 25 | Drugs such as cannabis specifically affect short-term memory and therefore under-achievement in examinations and in other tests is a common indicator of drug use , although care must be taken not to assume that all under-achievers are necessarily on drugs . |
| 26 | So I was definitely determined not to begin where she left off . ’ |
| 27 | Angrily she kept her lips pressed tightly together , determined not to fight or show any response whatsoever , but pretty soon she realised her mistake . |
| 28 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 29 | Once enrolled , your payments are guaranteed not to increase because of your age . |
| 30 | The family connection between Harry and his daughter was sufficiently diffused not to matter and they were very well matched . |