Example sentences of "and not [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We assume that graduates will do and say things in a considered way and not proffer the first thing that occurs to them . |
| 2 | But there 's lots of wildlife around , if you happen to be in the right place at the right time , and not singing a Betty Boo number at the top of your voice . |
| 3 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
| 4 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 5 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 7 | The BSO is not likely to support this function very successfully because it is a relatively broad and unspecific classification scheme , with only sufficient specification for the classification of organizations concerned with the control of information ( for example , libraries , clearing houses , abstracting and indexing agencies ) and not to support the indexing of , say , individual periodical articles . |
| 8 | When in doubt the jury tends to acquit and not convict the innocent , and plenty of lawyers can intercept and fly an ILS approach to CPL/IR standards . |
| 9 | When economists describe Britain 's relative economic decline since the Second World War as the outcome of a vicious circle of low growth and low productivity , they are employing a seductive metaphor and not providing a convincing explanation . |
| 10 | This programme , which is still at the experimental stage and therefore subject to adjustment in the light of experience , is intended to supplement and not to replace the close personal supervision which graduate students are entitled to expect . |
| 11 | ‘ She will read though the most gratuitously disgusting violent passages and not bat an eyelid . |
| 12 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 13 | What would be more difficult would be for each group to resist both poles of power ( management and union ) and not become a caucus or adjunct of either . |
| 14 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
| 15 | We have to look on , more or less helplessly , since our present plan is not to use force and not to promote an incident " . |
| 16 | Yes , Councillor , will you keep to the subject under discussion and not involving a lot of personal abuse . |
| 17 | I wonder if people have any er , ideas for for who could be squeezed and not cause an outcry and not cause undue suffering and distress ? |
| 18 | subject board members are encouraged to view syllabuses and reading lists in this light , and not to undertake a detailed critique of each one ’ . |
| 19 | Often their request for help was for further insemination and not to treat the actual sexual problem . |
| 20 | The new religion had to be seen to meet existing needs , and not to overtax the courage its converts would need to break with the religion of their ancestors . |
| 21 | His own experience — always , except once , resisting and not provoking the attacks — had been so different . |
| 22 | From such a good start it was disappointing to reach only 286 and not avoid the follow on . |
| 23 | Let us pray that the leaders of the world will learn from history and not repeat the mistakes of the past . |
| 24 | Hoffman 's reading of the situation was shortly to be justified , for two Russian radio messages again , astonishingly , sent in clear — proclaimed to the German wireless station in Königsberg that Rennenkampf , soon belatedly to be on the move again , would drive west in leisurely fashion and not reach the Gerdauen-Allenburg-Wehlau line until 26 August . |
| 25 | Henry J. held that the intention of strikers was to put pressure on their employers to improve their conditions of service and not to disrupt the plaintiffs ' contracts , even though that was an unavoidable by-product of the strike . |
| 26 | ‘ Teach us , Good Lord , to give and not to count the cost , to fight and not to heed the wounds , to toil and not to seek for rest , to labour and to ask for no reward , save that of knowing that we do Thy will . ’ |
| 27 | He sought to save the lives of More and Fisher by suggesting that they be required to subscribe only to an oath to respect the succession , and not to repudiate the authority of Rome . |
| 28 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't be in Sardinia and not try a prickly pear . ’ |
| 30 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |