Example sentences of "and [verb] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it accepts the EC 's ban on further planting , or it applies for quality wine status and agrees not to use hybrid vines . |
| 2 | The Government has failed to add any convincing arguments to its feeble justifications for the changes , and dares not come clean about the real reasons . |
| 3 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 4 | He says he uses it every week and has n't had any problems . |
| 5 | As the PM says , no one has ever done anything big and good if he has always had success and has n't had some thumping clouts on the head on the way . |
| 6 | Occasionally a lecturer engrossed in his subject finds that he has concentrated too much on his favourite bits and has not covered all the topics in the paper . |
| 7 | These circumstances arise where the person who has died has no relatives or friends who would undertake the organisation , and has not made advance arrangements . |
| 8 | Generally speaking , there is no tort action where the product is merely defective and has not caused any physical damage . |
| 9 | The court 's job is to ensure that the administrator has acted within the rule of law , and has not infringed civil rights and freedoms . |
| 10 | There are internal disputes which are resolved by a visitor who is not a lawyer himself and has not taken legal advice . |
| 11 | Cargill says it has not patented any genes from indigenous Indian plants and has not exported any seeds from India . |
| 12 | Offered a settlement that would have retrieved half the gold , Moreira sternly refused — and has not had any of it back . |
| 13 | So Mrs. Pedelty ( who collects 11,0001. in rent and has not subscribed one farthing in relief ) has regained several hundred valuable acres , while the British Treasury has acquired two hundred and fifty more mouths that can be fed only through relief . |
| 14 | They said goodbye to each other and promised not to ignore each other the next time they met . |
| 15 | Under the terms of a final communiqué issued on June 26 all the factions agreed to implement an indefinite ceasefire and promised not to receive any further foreign military aid . |
| 16 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 17 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 18 | And he was good enough to win the Open , ’ I said and tried not to sound peevish because she knew the quote . |
| 19 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 20 | Usually , she met people halfway , and tried not to make snap judgements about them . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary is promoting his Bill by saying that people who are fleeing from political or social oppression do not deserve to come here and do not deserve political asylum . |
| 22 | Should the bride and groom not see each other the night before the wedding or even before the ceremony . |
| 23 | Put a large bucket underneath the trap to catch the contents of the sink — and remember not to pour this away until the trap has been refitted ! |
| 24 | If , for the moment , we accept the narrow definition offered by Goody and Watt ( in Goody , 1968 ) and remember not to draw general conclusions about ‘ literacy ’ as such from the arguments presented there , we nevertheless still find some problems about accepting the kinds of consequences they assume for even that limited form of ‘ literacy ’ . |
| 25 | There are , to point to two easily identifiable groups , the old grammar school teachers who do not like and have not mastered mixed-ability teaching ; and the old secondary modern teachers who still feel second-class citizens in the staffroom . |
| 26 | Barry Trevaskis , who had six stitches put in a horrible wound under his left eye after being stamped on in a ruck , might not agree that the Soviets lacked meanness , but had their half-backs Chapman and Rule not missed six penalties between them , Cornwall could have brought off an unexpected win . |
| 27 | But when Ronald Reagan came to Washington a year later , another government department , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , looked at the same evidence and decided not to limit most other , potentially higher human exposures to the chemical . |
| 28 | He makes a tortured film about European visions of America ; he wants to demonstrate the ‘ melting pot ’ in the film , plaster it with psychology and try not to miss any aspects of it . |
| 29 | survival course down and try not to take any trees . |
| 30 | ‘ And try not to spill any , please ! ’ |