Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It views writing essays not as a series of isolated events but as the dynamic process of developing a skill . |
| 2 | An example of the success rates obtained for ordering decimals not in context has already been given on p.50 for an item used in the reference test GT4 . |
| 3 | THE National Tyre Distributors Association are warning motorists not to be tempted to buy cheap imported second-hand tyres . |
| 4 | SPECIALISTS are urging women not to be alarmed by the results of a Canadian study on breast cancer screening which is due to be made public soon . |
| 5 | Senior Tory Mr Julian Amery ( Brighton Pavilion ) joined those urging ministers not to be hasty . |
| 6 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 7 | Alternatively , it may be done through linking rewards not to individual efforts but to organizational success and service . |
| 8 | Surely , it might be said , we ought to begin by asking questions not about the ontological features of properties but about the logical characteristics of predicates . |
| 9 | Several readers have asked if the kick was correctly taken , and what would have been the decision if defending players not on the goal-line had prevented Brooke from scoring a try . |
| 10 | It 's as if we are taking part not in real life but in a piece of reportage on the British constitutional system ’ ( 22 October 1964 ) . |
| 11 | From a sample of 162 eventual fellows of the society who had been over sixteen in 1642 , and therefore old enough to have taken sides in the civil war , and discounting foreigners not in England during the war years ( and a further 22 for whom there is inadequate documentation ) , 38 fought for , or supported , Parliament , while 85 were royalist in 1642 . |
| 12 | More important one should realize that attempts at accommodation between the two new Republics , French and Vietnamese , were taking place not between two sovereign states but between two political forces in the same country , each in the throes of revolution , each unwilling to concede sovereignty to the other . |
| 13 | God , but she knew how he liked to be pleasured , taking care not to stale his nerves with repetition , but cajoling his juice into cells already brimming , until he was ready to come in blood , and be murdered by her work , willingly . |
| 14 | Taking care not to be burned by the sun ( had she not promised Max ? ) . |
| 15 | The way to bend the pipe is to pull it across your knee , taking care not to ‘ crinkle ’ its inner surface as this will trap the spring ; protect your knee with some cloth wrapped around the pipe . |
| 16 | She pushed him into a seat on the stone beside the fire , and brushed the moisture from his hair , taking care not to be too gentle about it ; and when he made no move to stop her she unfastened his damp cloak and hung it to dry . |
| 17 | The same idea can be used with contingency tables , but the effects are usually derived by making comparisons not with a typical value such as the grand median but with one of the categories that has been chosen as the base for comparison . |
| 18 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 19 | Two are slammed for discharging materials not on their licences . |
| 20 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 21 | Henrietta came down to lunch , still shivering slightly , in a sweater and jeans , and refused to discuss her experience , telling Jacqueline not to be bloody silly when she asked if she 'd seen crocodiles . |
| 22 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 23 | Hi-fi officianardos are already advising people not to be too hasty in relinquishing their black vinyl record collections for fear that the CDs that they are replacing them with will fade in sound quality after ten years of use . |
| 24 | By Easter Monday 1814 , Samuel Young was advising Whitbread not to ‘ hope too much … the undertaking is a very uphill work , too tedious for a mere lover of fame to undertake … ’ . |
| 25 | The package manager should either update the package to reference all modules on the DC(s) or abort the DC(s) referencing module(s) not in the package ( and possibly create new DC(s) ) . |
| 26 | ’ Ransom strips ’ arise in a number of situations where land for development can only be reached by crossing land not in the vendor 's or developer 's ownership . |