Example sentences of "not to give [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ GENERAL PETER CAN BE TRUSTED NOT TO GIVE MUCH AWAY ’ |
| 2 | This is n't to say that you ought not to give such personal undertakings ; on the contrary , unless you have reason to distrust your client , you should be prepared to take this very small risk to facilitate completion . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the conclusion must be that , down to 1982 , Mrs Thatcher was anxious not to give many hostages to fortune by breaking too openly with the one-nation traditions of Butler and Macleod . |
| 4 | These were examined in detail and the sites visited before the students played the role of a planning committee , deciding whether or not to give each permission . |
| 5 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 6 | Also , different departments of the chief accountancy firms often have client relationships with the other party to the dispute , as many clients prefer not to give all their work to one firm . |
| 7 | No food should be eaten in very large quantities , and it is best not to give any one food every day . |
| 8 | He paused outside the doors , taking stock of his men , careful not to give any sign of his thoughts . |
| 9 | I tried not to give any extra weight to the explanations or justifications made by one individual rather than another . |
| 10 | Their Jewish inheritance apart ( and no serious understanding of his music interests can afford not to give this a very high place , as we shall see ) , was formed by such artists as Eddie Fisher , Gordon Jenkins , Vaughan Monroe , Patti Page , Dinah Shore , Frank Sinatra , Tony Bennett and Johnny Ray , who followed in the wake of the big bands . |
| 11 | And if the Spirit was truly to represent Jesus , he had to remain bound to the person and character of Jesus.Jesus was God 's Last Word to man ; and the function of the Spirit was not to give some new revelation of his own , but to bear witness to Jesus , to draw out the implications of God 's Last Word . |