Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Force companies not to massage profit forecasts , and instead , if they want to change City expectations , put out a short statement on Topic . |
| 2 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 3 | There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there . |
| 4 | The ambassadors of Canada , France , the United States and Venezuela then successfully intervened and persuaded the coup leaders not to kill Aristide but to allow him to leave the country , in order to prevent widespread bloodshed . |
| 5 | We are asking Local Education Authorities not to make sales of school playing fields in future unless there is no evidence of long-term need . |
| 6 | They show that animals pre-exposed once to vinegar before a conditioning trial with this flavour consumed more vinegar on the test trials than did control subjects not given pre-exposure . |
| 7 | Paddlers who normally carry a throwbag in a buoyancy aid back pocket will continue to do so but this holster is for those who do not have back pockets in their buoyancy aids or , indeed , bank support members not wearing buoyancy aids at all . |
| 8 | Joshua Dogonyaro , reported that Monrovia free port was now open for the delivery of urgently needed relief supplies , but he warned relief organizations not to use Buchanan port , 75 km to the south-east . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , police spokesmen are urging local government officials not to renew Time-Warner cable television franchises throughout the US . |
| 10 | The agreement also featured a commitment by the two national trade union confederations not to call strikes . |
| 11 | We conclude that in our experience annual colonoscopic surveillance for cancer has been unsuccessful ; eight of nine colonic cancers occurred in ulcerative colitis patients not having surveillance . |
| 12 | The general impression has been that major capital schemes not requiring Treasury approval have been poorly appraised . |
| 13 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 14 | Durham County Council has warned school bus drivers not to use Roundhill Road when travelling into or out of the village . |
| 15 | It states , ‘ … grassland accounting for more than 70% of the total utilised agricultural area , a stocking rate of less than 1 livestock unit ( 1 cow over two years old or 6.6 sheep ) per forage hectare and farm rents not exceeding 65% of the national average … and a labour income per man — work unit exceeding 80% of the national average ’ . |
| 16 | Why do golf clubs not give pitch repairers away free ? |
| 17 | ( 2 ) staffing levels not allowing library supervision for more than half the week : So $8,000 to $10,000 of books are not secure and are there for anyone to take ; |
| 18 | In contrast , intestinal biopsy specimens of the coeliac disease patients not receiving treatment had grade II atrophy in two cases , grade III atrophy in five cases , and total atrophy ( grade IV ) in five children . |