Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] and [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 2 | ‘ Why not think and act as Great Britain Incorporate ? ’ . he asked . |
| 3 | ‘ I told Mrs. Bonnard not to try and cope with it on her own , ’ Richie said . |
| 4 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 5 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 6 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 7 | I try not to stare and saunter past holding my breath . |
| 8 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 9 | It can not move and shoot in the same turn , except that it can be turned to face its intended target . |
| 10 | A volley gun can not move and shoot in the same turn except to turn to face its target . |
| 11 | A cannon can not move and shoot in the same turn except to turn to face its target . |
| 12 | Felix did not move and true to his word the batsman knocked him down . |
| 13 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 14 | ‘ Power and knowledge directly imply each other … there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge , nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations ’ ( Foucault , 1977 : 27 ) . |
| 15 | I am against circuses with animal acts , and I do not try and stand outside a circus and stop people going in . |
| 16 | One thousand men could not enter and remain in the vicinity for any time without being discovered . |
| 17 | ‘ Another chopper should be along for you at any minute , old chap , but why not go and wait in your van until it arrives ? ’ |
| 18 | Certainly , they would not go and beg from wealthy relatives ! |
| 19 | There is an Introductory Workshop to be held in London on Saturday , 9th July ‘ 88 , so why not go and see for yourselves what Medau Teacher Training would involve . |
| 20 | Any " uncompetitive " region ( i.e. nation ) of the union that does not undertake and succeed in reducing differential unit ( and particularly labour ) costs will experience the same pressures commensurate with a current account deficit . |
| 21 | Part of him was coldly aware of the bulge in Doyle 's pocket — the gun which had made sure he would not scream and beg for help . |
| 22 | Listen , I goes , I do n't care who it was but you better not come and knock for no more because my Mum 's screwing with you . |
| 23 | Even the proposers from the Trust would not come and talk to the public . |
| 24 | If he is so concerned , why did he not come and talk to us ? ’ |
| 25 | It is an awful mess but will you not come and sit by my fire– ’ |
| 26 | We can not live and struggle without help … ’ |
| 27 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 28 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 29 | Uncut diamonds do not glitter and gleam like the cut and polished article that appears at the end of the process . |
| 30 | Lyons added : ‘ This proves that football does not start and end in England , which is what most of us think in this country . |