Example sentences of "[verb] not [to-vb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most proprietary medications are designed not to kill filter bacteria . |
| 2 | Ecology was a parallel move designed not to transcend field studies , but to transform them in a way that would make them genuinely scientific . |
| 3 | On Aug. 20 , 1990 , the government coalition and SPD agreed not to send Bundeswehr troops to the Gulf region and instead Germany made only monetary contributions to the war effort [ see pp. 37640 ; 37694 ; 37697 ; 37718 ; 38109 ] . |
| 4 | The significance of this in the context of this section is simply as a reminder that those groups who tend not to use bank loans and credit cards — generally older people in the lower income and socio-economic groups , and women as opposed to men — probably have not consciously chosen not to . |
| 5 | It is easy to see why Mr Smith has decided not to target investment income . |
| 6 | Microsoft may have decided not to bundle SQL Server directly in order maintain good relations with other database suppliers , ‘ but why not do it the other way around ? ’ asks Schuster . |
| 7 | Microsoft may have decided not to bundle SQL Server directly in order maintain good relations with other database suppliers , ‘ but why not do it the other way around ? ’ asks Schuster . |
| 8 | The amount of lactose ( 2.4 g ) contained in 30 ml of Dulphalac has been shown not to affect breath hydrogen excretion . |
| 9 | When the Minister next meets the trade unions will he explain to them why the Government threatened not to recognise trade unions representing employees on Ministry of Defence property when those trade unions are affiliated to the Labour party ? |
| 10 | you might decide not to tell family members until the immediate shock for you has begun to subside . |
| 11 | What a disaster it would be if the local bus company decided not to run bus services after about 3 o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 12 | And try not to wear plastic sandals unless they 're the open type . |
| 13 | Apart from certain matters which are specifically declared not to constitute development ( for example , internal alterations to buildings , works of road maintenance , or improvement carried out by a local highway authority within the boundaries of a road ) and others which , though possibly constituting development , are declared not to require planning permission , there is provision for the secretary of state to make a General Development Order ( GDO ) specifying classes of ‘ permitted ’ development , and a Use Classes Order specifying groups of uses within which interchange is permissible . |
| 14 | If it elects not to prepare group accounts , the exemption under para 8(c) would seem not to apply and as each UK company is not entitled to the small company exemption in its own right , neither can they claim the exemption under para 8(a) . |
| 15 | Anomalously , proposals for Private Member 's bills are emanating increasingly from governments ; a government wishes to see a particular measure enacted but either wishes not to devote government time to it , or wishes to avoid too close an association with its controversial subject-matter , or both . |
| 16 | Trying not to let excitement show in my voice I said , ‘ Hold on while I check my diary ’ knowing fine that whatever was committed would have to be re-arranged ! |
| 17 | If I was walking past a building site , I 'd put my head down , trying not to have eye contact with anyone , but I 'd be expecting it anyway — not because I 'm pretty , but because if it 's summer and you 're a girl and , say wearing shorts , it 's inevitable . |
| 18 | If for any reason you prefer not to discuss birth control with your own GP , you are entitled to go to another GP for this service . |
| 19 | If for any reason you prefer not to discuss birth control with your own family doctor , you are entitled to go to another family doctor for this service . |
| 20 | If for any reason you prefer not to discuss birth control with your own GP , you are entitled to go to another GP for this service . |
| 21 | Whatever the varying demands on her time , Laura was determined not to delegate print research . |
| 22 | Yet the 27-year-old artist and Middlesbrough fan is determined not to let football issues slip off the political agenda . |
| 23 | Until ATBC is known to be not only " microwave friendly " but also " user-friendly " , consumers are warned not to use cling film for wrapping food or lining dishes when cooking in a microwave oven . |
| 24 | SHOPPERS have been warned not to buy rabbit meat in Latvian markets after 42 animals infected with lethal bugs were stolen from a research centre . |
| 25 | It is hung over the last ( open ) chamber of a filter , and apparently uses ultra violet frequencies that are guaranteed not to destroy filter bacteria — only to disrupt algae/hydra spores . |
| 26 | Some firms have chosen not to seek audit registration , some were turned down , and a few have had registration withdrawn from them . |
| 27 | This was clearly shown in Case 28/84 Commission v. Germany , where the animal foodstuffs directives , which , as mentioned in the previous paragraph , had been held not to preclude health inspections under national law , were found to create a comprehensive system with regard to the composition and preparation of animal foodstuffs , so that Germany could not lay down its own rules on minimum and maximum levels of certain ingredients . |
| 28 | A stricter interpretation , however , is that the company would be entitled not to prepare group accounts if it obtained and published the auditors ’ report required by s 248(3) ( which confirms that the company is so entitled ) but it is not otherwise . |
| 29 | In Victorian days , the Watch Committee regularly placed adverts in the local newspapers in early December : ‘ Shopkeepers are advised not to give Christmas Boxes to police officers . ’ |