Example sentences of "in [noun sg] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances . |
| 2 | ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking . |
| 3 | They share one feature in common , namely an attempt to quantify what the condition of , say , the balance of trade would have been had the country in question not participated in the CU . |
| 4 | I had never heard of river engineers until one morning a very harassed engineer rang to ask me to persuade the lady in question not to tie herself to the ancient pollard which he intended to fell . |
| 5 | Baker won Cuban as well as Yemeni agreement not to insist that the Council vote first on the Palestinian issue , reportedly tacitly undertaking in return not to veto a resolution planned for December . |
| 6 | PACE Code D 2.2 — identification parade — officer involved in investigation not to take part in parade — whether bringing suspect to parade ‘ taking part ’ |
| 7 | Baldwin and both women agreed in court not to talk to newspapers about the case . |
| 8 | They are always made aware of their temporary status on being recruited , but sometimes the only other difference between them and other members of the workforce is that the trade unions within the organisation have consented in advance not to contest the employer 's right to dismiss them once he feels he no longer has any work for them . |
| 9 | The Panel decided in advance not to bring them back to Orkney for the Hearing . |
| 10 | He wanted to project the image of being in television not to make money but because it was fun . |
| 11 | In man not seeing them at . |
| 12 | Therefore , students generally only really looked to housing benefit to top up their accommodation needs and only then if they were in property not owned by their college . |
| 13 | In order not to disappoint anyone , Celia would explain in her reply that although she was pregnant , she was really looking for an older nanny . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the guiding principle in sentencing republicans was moderation in order not to create new martyrs within the republican minority . |
| 15 | He devised a system of symbols which he found in dreams to represent more unbearable things which did not themselves appear in the dreams in order not to disrupt sleep . |
| 16 | I cravenly agreed , simply in order not to antagonize and perhaps lose him . |
| 17 | The door closed behind them and they crept quietly up to the top floor in order not to wake the sleeping boys downstairs . |
| 18 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |
| 19 | Everything about her flowed , particularly her long luxurious auburn hair — that is , when she was not obliged to roll it up in order not to fall foul of the army authorities . |
| 20 | This makes you look alert , as indeed you will have to be in order not to fall off ! |
| 21 | At this meeting , the accountants should be made aware of any particular aspects of the target business with which the investors are already satisfied , in order not to duplicate work , and should be forewarned of areas which require special attention . |
| 22 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 23 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 24 | In addition you will need to decide whether you want a type that will act as a further embellishment of your scheme or one that blends insignificantly into the background in order not to detract attention from the curtains themselves . |
| 25 | But in order not to repeat his father 's duplicity he uses self-consciousness and temporal manipulation to keep the artificiality of this procedure in view . |
| 26 | There , in order not to disturb his convalescent father , Wolfgang abandoned practice in favour of composition , and his earliest symphonies were probably written there . |
| 27 | We want to act carefully in order not to disturb that balance . |
| 28 | ‘ It is impractical to repeat the same unchanged dose of a remedy once , not to mention its frequent repetition ( and at short intervals in order not to delay the cure ) . |
| 29 | Because the late start of H is 15 , G must finish no later than 15 in order not to delay H. The late start of G is therefore 15 . |
| 30 | Because the late start of H is 15 , G must finish no later than 15 in order not to delay H. The late start of G is therefore 15 . |