Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The ambition is certainly not to go along at the existing size , growing by 5 per cent a year . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 3 | And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school . |
| 4 | In an attempt to prove they were unaffected by this , they raised their voices as they chatted to each other , and pretended not to glance uneasily at the nearby rectangles of darker , freshly turned earth . |
| 5 | Another point for them to remember is not to speak directly at the microphone but to aim instead just over the top of it ; this is to reduce the pick-up of breath noises and the distortion of plosive consonants . |