Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Other abuses such as assaults tend not to take place in front of independent witnesses and proof will always be difficult .
2 Yes but you tend not to get recycling of housing land of housing , you tend to get recycling of housing land , new housing land from outworn industries , nonconforming use , that type of erm recycling is just what I had in mind .
3 Interestingly , many species of bat seem not to favour flight on moonlit nights , possibly because of the danger from owls and bat hawks .
4 Remember not to confuse reliability with value .
5 Decision of UN Human Rights Commission not to consider resolution on Tibet
6 I mean I do it sort of a bit naturally , I mean if you , you know that what , the Delvine Hotel , I mean I sort of went in and I du n no sort of part way in I sort of said can I ask you if , you know , you 've had your other quotes and he sort of said yes we 're gon na sit down tonight and make our minds up
7 Should the Secretary of State decide not to give effect to any of the recommendations he has received from the Council , he is required to publish a statement explaining his reasons .
8 Alfa Romeo had a now-you-see-it , now-you-do n't glass roof on its 164-based Proteo coupe , but a production future here is altogether more promising .
9 Try not to draw attention to yourself today — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue .
10 Try not to draw attention to yourself today — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue .
11 Try not to draw attention to yourself — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue .
12 Try not to drink alcohol during the working day
13 Try not to use blame in saying what you need .
14 Carry over : Try not to carry part of a sentence over to the next page and if at all possible leave paragraphs intact as well .
15 Try not to track mud into the house , Ian , and do n't you think you should drop the term ‘ gyppos ’ from your vocabulary — it 's awfully common . ’
16 Conservation techniques do not conserve soil in practice because of technical failures through inadequate or misapplied research .
17 exist in nearly all AIDS patients but do not prevent progression of HIV disease .
18 If you want people to think well of you , do not speak well of yourself .
19 The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth .
20 Many assessments do not represent ownership as such .
21 We do not regard money as the only measure of success .
22 We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue .
23 Do not demand interest on loans you make to a brother Israelite .
24 Lexical repetition is therefore a much safer option in cases where ambiguity of reference may arise and in contexts which do not tolerate ambiguity in general and ambiguity of reference in particular .
25 Furthermore , if information is to be sent abroad , will other police forces be told that we , unlike some of them , do not separate suspicion from factual information on our computer ?
26 ( Some countries do not pay compensation for damage . )
27 Do not pay employee for any credit hours owed in flexi–time .
28 ‘ When we hear such sounds we do not pay attention to things like pitch and timbre .
29 Since the 1990 Budget , parents with a child in a workplace nursery do not pay tax on the value of the care , but women employed by companies that either ‘ buy ’ places at private nurseries or the 60 or so firms such as British Gas , National Power , Debenhams and BMW which issue childcare vouchers ( worth an average £27 a week ) must pay tax on what is treated as a perk .
30 Companies do not pay tax on their FII since it represents dividends paid out of profits that have already been taxed in the corporate sector ( s 208 ) .
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