Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not consider following an evening of bowling with a supper ( meal or buffet ) in our Functions Suite . |
| 2 | He was in fact close-fisted , and while listening had worked out in his mind that he need not consider paying a music-master if this young man should be eager and available . |
| 3 | One might not expect sawing a Renault 5 in half to constitute part of an electronics research project , but that 's what they call it at sub-basement level , below the Strand . |
| 4 | But this unspoken rule does not prevent teaching a child from a neighbouring school — ‘ filling the gaps ’ which a fellow ‘ professional ’ has left in a child 's mathematics or English grammar . |
| 5 | I was telephoned by the late Lord Plunket , Her Majesty 's Equerry , a man of exceptional charm whom I knew well and liked , who arranged the appointment and said diffidently , ‘ I hope you do not mind wearing a morning coat . ’ |
| 6 | He can understand imagining something ( a cave , perhaps ) as a dwelling ; but can not understand imagining a butterfly exactly as it is , but ugly . |
| 7 | England are at present near the top of the rugby world , but if they feel they can not keep finding a world-beating XV from 24 of 26 clubs in their top two leagues , my heart bleeds for them . |
| 8 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
| 9 | In fact I can not remember reading a book on this topic which I found more rewarding or useful . |
| 10 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 11 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 12 | Most licensed dealers could not resist kicking a man when he 's down . |
| 13 | Although she could not resist adopting a dancer 's grace for the performance , the mocking allusion to the demeaning domestication of women was clear enough , though this theme has been treated with far more wit and poignant effect by other artists ( notably Bobby Baker ) . |
| 14 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 15 | While Elinor lived , Adam dared not risk flinging a monkey wrench into that dream . |
| 16 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 17 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 18 | US oil company , Pennzoil , has been ordered by the courts to produce documents before Christmas to prove it does not intend launching a takeover bid for its bigger rival , Chevron . |
| 19 | In the proposals which the Government made in 1984 in a White Paper , A Revised Framework for Insolvency Law ( Cmnd 9175 ) , largely based on the Cork Report , they indicated that they did not intend introducing a debt counselling service , but referring any debtor with liabilities less than £15,000 to an ‘ insolvency practitioner ’ . |
| 20 | FARMERS WEEKLY Farms can not justify owning a combine indeed , we have contract-hired one from Agricultural Plant Hire since 1972 . |
| 21 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] The bewitching girl every day rose in her charms upon me and I could not help entertaining a jealousy that she was writing to somebody who stood well in her opinion , and my feelings for her made it a sweetheart , of course . |
| 22 | Tolkien could not help seeing a part of himself in Fëanor and Saruman , sharing their perhaps licit , perhaps illicit desire to ‘ sub-create ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest . |
| 24 | ‘ I should be loth to create more difficulties , but I can not help following a line of thought to its logical end . |
| 25 | The fears that had driven him to race frantically out to the Lock seemed so ridiculous now that he could not help making a joke out of them , and himself . |
| 26 | Watching his total absorption in the service and the way in which he hung upon the holy words , Owen could not help feeling a moment of doubt . |