Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] not [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was confirmed in Russell v Northern Bank Development Corporation Limited and others [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 588 , where , in the House of Lords , it was held that a private agreement between shareholders not to increase the capital of the company was an agreement about the manner of voting of the shareholders and did not constitute a restriction on the statutory power of the company to alter its share capital . |
| 2 | It was precisely the moral , ethical dimension of communism which initially made it impossible for Nizan not to join the party and work within its ranks . |
| 3 | It is important for parents not to supplement the diet with high sugar and salt content snacks in an effort to get their child to eat . |
| 4 | Something about Marius not using the Rolls , but sticking to the Datsun . |
| 5 | You could of course not send the benefit statement . |
| 6 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 7 | ‘ Why should the char of Buttermere not outsell the char of Windermere ? ’ |
| 8 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 9 | As many as 800 Irish supporters are expected in the Albanian capital Tirana for the match , despite advice from the Football Association of Ireland not to make the trip because of lack of facilities there . |
| 10 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 11 | All states of the globe are today officially ‘ nations ’ , all liberation movements tend to be ‘ national ’ liberation movements , ‘ national ’ agitations disrupt the oldest nation-states in Europe — Spain , France , the United Kingdom , even , in a modest way , Switzerland — the socialist regimes of the East , the new Third World states liberated from colonialism , even the federations of the New World , where Canada remains torn and in the USA pressure is growing to make English the only language for public official purposes , in response to the mass immigration of Spanish Americans , the first wave of immigrants not to feel the attractions of linguistic assimilation . |
| 12 | Why have the laws of war not addressed the nuclear weapons question more successfully ? |
| 13 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 14 | The prosecution told Liverpool City Magistrates ' Court : ‘ The accused was in breach of bail not to approach the complainant or the premises . |
| 15 | Even if the practice overspends its funds , there is no question of patients not getting the treatment they need . |
| 16 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 17 | In September 1962 the USSR was also gratified by a pledge given by the Shah of Iran not to permit the establishment of foreign missile bases of any sort on its territory . |
| 18 | I appeal to the Secretary of State not to deny the people of Ireland the basic and fundamental right of full democracy . |
| 19 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 20 | THE decision of the Princess of Wales not to attend the wedding today of her sister-in-law , Anne , has been portrayed as a snub . |
| 21 | Failure on the part of a candidate to return work as required will be a sufficient reason for a board of examiners not to take the work into account in determining the results of a candidate . |
| 22 | It was like Tolonen not to abuse the Pass Laws ; not to grant permissions for his family or friends . |
| 23 | Before relations deteriorated the USA announced in September 1989 that it was seeking an agreement with Israel not to oppose the sale of 315 US battle tanks to Saudi Arabia . |
| 24 | Decision-making might be slow , with managers not allowed the authority and discretion they would like . |
| 25 | They are under orders not to reveal the identities of their clients or what they are prepared to pay . |
| 26 | In general terms the system is bureaucratic and inflexible , with prices not conveying the kind of information which they do in a market economy and with incentives being blunted . |
| 27 | In my opinion we should be tampering with language not to tell the truth , but quite openly to shame the devil . |
| 28 | For Svend not to keep the appointment he made , solely to pleasure himself with the attractions of Copenhagen , will be regarded as an act of arrant rudeness , and will almost certainly disqualify him from gaining the approval of my brother-in-law 's cousin who himself is an ex-patriate Dane . ’ |
| 29 | The ways cards made spending — and overspending — so easy and painless made it difficult for people not to treat the plastic rectangles as money . |
| 30 | They are always made aware of their temporary status on being recruited , but sometimes the only other difference between them and other members of the workforce is that the trade unions within the organisation have consented in advance not to contest the employer 's right to dismiss them once he feels he no longer has any work for them . |