Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England . |
| 2 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 3 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 4 | He thought he had programmed his body not to go for intellectual types — that is , if any woman could be described as intellectual . |
| 5 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 6 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 7 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 8 | ‘ Promise me , Jane , not to look for another job . |
| 9 | In the face of their insistence and that of Arab League negotiators , he warned them not to settle for any deal which did not involve the withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 Syrian troops based in west Beirut and the hinterland . |
| 10 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 11 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 12 | The members re-emphasised the decision , taken at a previous meeting , not to pay for this treatment . ’ |
| 13 | Laughton pledged not to bid for any Chemics star for at least a season — unless they wanted to sell . |
| 14 | Us women are not to blame for this AIDS |