Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole point of this afternoon was to advertise my company , not to go for a jaunt along the river . ’ |
| 2 | He decided not to go to a chain chemist 's . |
| 3 | The undertaking by the Government not to agree to a proposal while either House maintains its ‘ parliamentary reserve ’ was embodied in a resolution of the House of Commons of 30 October 1980 . |
| 4 | I refer to my memorandum dated 19 September 1990 which informed you that the Personnel Committee , at its meeting on 11 September 1990 , decided not to agree to a closure of Regional Council workplaces during the 1990/91 festive season . |
| 5 | ‘ The obligation not to profit from a position of trust , or , as it is sometimes relevant to put it , not to allow a conflict to arise between duty and interest , is one of strictness . |
| 6 | The Grea it was the Greater York authorities ma'am who who as I understand determined not to proceed with a location within the third alteration , and that was endorsed by the County Council when they first considered the draft plan . |
| 7 | It should also be stressed that the decision whether or not to proceed with a deal at any stage rests with yourselves . |
| 8 | But they were advised by the police not to proceed after a crowd of demonstrators gathered outside the house in Cockpen Drive . |
| 9 | Ackroyd warns us not to jump to a conflation here , but he is intrigued by the coincidence , and it might almost serve as an emblem of his concern throughout the biography with the connection between poetry and feigning , and with the potency of parody . |
| 10 | However , I have argued that Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge is based on a social conception of human being ; he is extremely careful not to reduce thought to individual minds and not to conceive of a group ‘ mind ’ based on the prior conception of individual mind ( Mannheim 1936 : 2 , 44 ) . |
| 11 | On the one hand for environmental reasons , for their environmental reasons I should say , and on the other hand so as not to come as a nuisance to residents of existing communities . |
| 12 | ‘ Not to worry about a ticket . |
| 13 | ‘ Maurice said that we 're not to worry about a thing , ’ Eddie said eventually . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not to worry about a thing , Rachaela , ’ she must have found the name out from a nurse . |
| 15 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 16 | The point of mentioning this development is not to launch on a digression about professional education , important though that is . |
| 17 | Moreover , if a pilot decides not to launch in a situation like this , he must never be overruled or criticised for playing it safe . |
| 18 | The term Arte Povera was coined to express the idea of artists exercising the greatest possible freedom to explore , not to serve as a definition . |
| 19 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 20 | He replied that he held his power in Italy by the same right of conquest established by Charlemagne and Otto , he had come , he said , ‘ not to receive as a suppliant the transient favours of an unruly people , but as a prince resolved to claim , if necessary by force of arms , the inheritance of his forebears ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you . |
| 22 | If the distributor 's buyer opens them up and finds them not to comply with a condition in his contract he may reject them . |
| 23 | People must have the right not to belong to a union , but where more than half the workforce demonstrate in a postal ballot that they want to belong , they should be allowed bargaining rights . ’ |
| 24 | This entails the right to choose whether or not to belong to a trade union and the right to strike . |
| 25 | Today an adolescent is probably as likely as not to belong to a family which is an uneasy mixture of the nuclear set-up and the institution known as serial marriage ( marriage , divorce , remarriage ) . |
| 26 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
| 27 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 28 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 29 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 30 | When you send out tell them not to put on a road block because the guy driving the truck is a real ‘ Harvey Wallbanger ’ and he 'll go straight through a patrol car . ’ |