Example sentences of "of [pron] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 2 | Stupid of me not to realise that here , also … |
| 3 | What I have advocated is possible and not just a dream , but it would be remiss of me not to consider the nightmare scenario of colliery closures at a time when we are increasing restructuring grants by £1,000 million . |
| 4 | The funeral directors ' lobby is very strong ; I suppose it was naïve of me not to have realized before that they would clamp down hard on any wholesaler who dared to step out of line and supply the public direct . |
| 5 | He will agree that it will be only wise of me not to attempt to comment on or in any way to qualify the words that the Prime Minister used this afternoon — and I have no intention of doing so . |
| 6 | It was n't polite of them not to answer the door , knowing that he was standing there , but it did n't really matter . |
| 7 | ‘ Lovely bit of weather , ’ said her father , and her mother remarked that she always thought it so silly of them not to go out in the country more when they lived so near to it . |
| 8 | They also eat about 3,000 midges a night each , a contribution to Scottish life which it is churlish of you not to acknowledge ! |
| 9 | It was tactful of you not to say so . |
| 10 | ‘ I always think it 's very nice of you not to mind being a baritone rather than a tenor , Charlie . |
| 11 | ‘ How kind of you not to resent being told ! |
| 12 | Her critics thought it crude of her not to care what they thought of her . |
| 13 | How typical of her not to tell me . |
| 14 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 15 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 16 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 17 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 18 | We always try to give people an idea of what to wear before they arrive — or rather , of what not to wear . |
| 19 | list of what to eat , and a list of list of what not to eat . |
| 20 | It would have been parochial of us not to have mentioned it as it is still used in many other countries . |