Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [not/n't] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the researchers also reported ‘ an irritating tendency for some Ugandan subjects not to answer questions directly . |
| 2 | CLIVE Brittain warned User Friendly supporters not to put heart before head when his star filly goes for the world 's richest race , the Japan Cup in Tokyo , early tomorrow morning . |
| 3 | Other circumstances predispose to the avoidance of grief including social pressures not to show emotion ; a belief that they should , for instance , protect children from displays of grief ; a fear of being thought to have broken down ; or heavy use of tranquillisers to avoid the physiological accompaniments of grief . |
| 4 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 5 | Yachting can survive as a spectator sport , but the participants owe it to future generations not to promote tobacco consumption as part of their lifestyle . |
| 6 | Education — School — Parental preference — Duty to comply — Over-subscribed Roman Catholic girls ' school — Admission policy giving priority to Roman Catholic and other Christians — Hindu and Muslim applicants not fulfilling admission criteria — Refusal of admission by governors — Appeal committee dismissing appeal — Whether school bound by parental preference — Whether appeal committee 's decision correct in law — Education Act 1980 ( c. 20 ) , s. 6(3) ( a ) ( as amended by Education Reform Act 1988 ( c. 40 ) , s. 30 ) |
| 7 | The laconic Ernie Walker , President of the SFA at the time , urged future managers not to put Macari to any future discomfort . |
| 8 | Headlines scream of algal blooms which destroy fish farms in Norway , and radio broadcasts give official warnings not to eat shellfish from some areas of the British coasts . |
| 9 | However , the only manifestations of hostility up until October 1959 had been pressure on its European allies not to supply Cuba with weapons ( in mid-October Washington had blocked the sale of British jet fighters to Cuba ) . |
| 10 | This effect may come partly through economic calculations not favouring risk-taking , and partly through the broader anti-entrepreneurial ethos of the upper class . |
| 11 | First , launch aid may be seen as a pre-commitment by European governments not to allow Airbus to be bullied out of the industry . |
| 12 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 13 | Ayatollah Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , in a speech on June 10 said that there had been disorder in three towns ( Mashad , Shiraz and Arak ) where a small and subversive counter-revolutionhad taken advantage of the authorities ' leniency ; he warned municipal institutions not to provide pretexts for the stirring up of further disturbances . |
| 14 | Of the original concept , only weatherman Francis Wilson survives and even he seemed to be making conscious efforts not to call clouds ‘ white , fluffy bits ’ , as has been his trick . |
| 15 | There was no significant difference between the birth weight of diabetic subjects not receiving insulin ( 3.39+-(0.58) kg , n=20 ) and the birth weight of those with impaired glucose tolerance and with normoglycaemia . |
| 16 | The diabetic subjects not receiving insulin had significantly lower β cell function ( median 69% ) than the subjects with impaired glucose tolerance ( median 96% , p<0.001 ) and the subjects with normoglycaemia ( median 98% , p<0.001 ) . |
| 17 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 18 | They resented stern reminders not to speak German , to be polite and always , always to be grateful . |
| 19 | Several experimenters have maintained that chimpanzees and gorillas can be taught to communicate by means of artificial systems not involving speech . |
| 20 | The Catholic Church , for instance , runs a network of such homes called Life Houses as part of its constant effort to persuade pregnant girls not to have abortions . |
| 21 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
| 22 | Should planned deliveries not take place , and should usage continue , then eventually a stockout situation will be reached , where , for , the goods in question will be temporarily out-of-stock . |
| 23 | Mamdani ( 1976 ) has put forward analyses which attempt to show that it is in the economic interests of many rural couples not to adopt family planning . |
| 24 | King Ecgfrith was advised by Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , and presumably informed circles among the northern Angles not to invade Pictland in 685 ( HE IV , 26 ) , and Cuthbert 's personal familiarity with the Niduari Picts in Fib ( Fife ) affords a glimpse of the probably extensive contacts between northern Anglian circles and Pictish communities immediately north of the Forth . |
| 25 | In other words not see science in isolation from economics , anthropology , politics — all these disciplines should be working together . ’ |
| 26 | She 's had to restrict the amount of time he spends playing them , and she 's warning other parents not to let children use the games for long periods unsupervised . |
| 27 | One approach would be to have first-degree sexual assault defined so as to include penetration involving the penis , vagina , or anus , together with the threat or infliction of grievous bodily harm ; then a second-degree offence of the same nature involving a threat or infliction of actual bodily harm ; and then a third-degree offence covering all other sexual assaults involving penetration , and a fourth offence to cover indecent assaults not involving penetration . |
| 28 | Category D , carrying a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment , would cover indecent assaults not involving penetration . |
| 29 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |
| 30 | TSB and Yorkshire , the only other main issuers not to charge fees , merely say they have ‘ no plans as yet ’ to introduce a charge . |