Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the test periods subjects were instructed not to smoke or eat anything but drank water ad libitum . |
| 2 | You would abort a DC if it was decided not to proceed and complete the proposed change . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He tends not to formulate and face the difficulties that he encounters sufficiently rigorously , and erm to on the whole get away with difficulties by the skilful way in which he writes about them and by his wit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We kept making chances , and at half time were told not to panic and start wellying everything forward , ’ said Sharpe . |
| 7 | do n't need any more of that , you know not to drink and drive you wan na learn your roundabouts , junctions and that and get how to give way and |
| 8 | I wondered who the young girl was , acting the doe for Henry 's buck , but I decided not to wait and see and promptly fled . |
| 9 | SGB management , seeking the easiest and cheapest methods , decided not to assemble or store new data but to use what was already in the payroll system and manipulate it by means of — initially — a single additional program specially written for the purpose . |
| 10 | For the first time since the civil war began in 1979 the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , the main guerrilla organization , decided not to disrupt or urge a boycott of the elections and in fact declared a three-day truce on March 9-11 . |
| 11 | He decided not to stay and find out . |
| 12 | In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice . |
| 13 | Chissano and Dhlakama pledged ( i ) to guarantee conditions that would allow complete political freedom " in accordance with internationally recognized principles of democracy " ; ( ii ) to guarantee the personal security of all Mozambican citizens and all members of political parties ; ( iii ) to accept the role of the international community and particularly the UN in monitoring and guaranteeing the implementation of the general peace agreement , particularly the ceasefire agreement and electoral process ; ( iv ) to respect the principles contained in Protocol No. 1 [ see p. 38517 ] under the terms of which the government undertook not to adopt or apply laws which could conflict with agreements between the parties , while Renamo undertook to stop fighting and to behave as a political party ; ( v ) to respect political rights , with the government specifically committing itself to incorporating the various agreements and protocols into law [ see pp. 38517 ; 38565 ; 38804 ] ; and ( vi ) to complete an agreed agenda and sign a general peace agreement incorporating a ceasefire by Oct. 1 . |
| 14 | I try not to stare and saunter past holding my breath . |
| 15 | Finally , I use dampened white toilet tissue to get rid of any hard lines that may have occurred in my sky , and most importantly I try not to overwork or rework the sky once I am satisfied , just because I see another effect . |
| 16 | When you cut the lupins down try not to shake or knock them too much , because this will spread the mildew spores . |
| 17 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | as if the movements of violence would eradicate a reality he preferred not to acknowledge and bring the girl back . |
| 20 | No approach to professional support and development , still less an account of ‘ good practice ’ , can afford not to identify and confront these . |
| 21 | They did not want or need Rachaela any more . |
| 22 | Although Labour accepted that a second chamber to replace the Lords could be elected by a method other than the present first-past-the-post system , that chamber did not make or break governments . |
| 23 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 24 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 25 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 26 | Mrs Swales told the court she saw a lot of shouting and arguing , but she did not intervene or try to get involved . |
| 27 | In most countries the bourgeoisie , however defined , plainly did not control or exercise political power , except perhaps at the subaltern or municipal level . |
| 28 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 29 | He did not excuse or condone his client 's conduct , but argued that the children had not been coerced . |
| 30 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |