Example sentences of "not [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The purpose of this chapter is not to provide a detailed account of youth organizations , as their histories are easily available elsewhere . |
| 32 | And she added the move not to establish a special badge scheme would disenfranchise disabled car users from using the town centre , and force many to shop elsewhere . |
| 33 | We believe you will find it quite difficult not to find a large number of meals which appeal to you , because no less than six cookery experts have combined their various tastes and talents to provide this selection of low-calorie , high-fibre meals . |
| 34 | The only study not to find a clear positive relationship between volume and volatility is the cross-section study of 25 futures by Telser and Higinbotham ( 1977 ) . |
| 35 | It is clear that time will be allowed for improvements to be carried out and only when it is clear that there is no prospect of the business in question being able to operate without causing an odour , which amounts to a statutory nuisance , will the court permit the issue of a writ of sequestration for contempt of court , in committing breaches of the undertaking not to cause a statutory nuisance , thus closing the business down without compensation . |
| 36 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 37 | In creating the conservation plan the Trust 's initial purpose was not to create a special reserve for rare species , but rather a haven for the common things of Nature which ought to be on any farm — meadow and hedgerow flowers and grasses , butterflies , dragonflies , lizards , frogs , newts , hedgerows and owls . |
| 38 | This was held not to create a public right to be enjoyed by all Her Majesty 's citizens . |
| 39 | To act in the heat of passion is to perpetuate a present state , not to initiate a new one ; for something new to come in , space has to be made . |
| 40 | Banking and Tory party sources say that ministerial proposals to charge students a proportion of their tuition fees and other more radical ideas have been abandoned in the face of tough Treasury opposition , the perceived weakening of Mrs Thatcher 's position following Mr Nigel Lawson 's resignation , and her declared intention not to serve a full fourth term if re-elected . |
| 41 | What 's more , it 's best not to purchase a great wine , with another 10 or more years to wait before consumption , from a shop that has displayed it under bright light lights and in changing temperatures . |
| 42 | Our purpose is not to define a basic library for you , but rather to suggest kinds of books which you might look for ; and our choice of texts is based primarily on their convenience as illustrations . |
| 43 | However , in return for a rent-free period a tenant may agree , for example ( a ) to surrender another lease , ( b ) not to receive a reverse premium , or ( c ) to carry work that would usually be the landlord 's responsibility . |
| 44 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 45 | Where the question is whether or not to open a new station , ‘ we balance the risks of lengthening the journey time against potential new traffic . ’ |
| 46 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 47 | On modern waste systems this is relatively easy , but on old-fashioned systems it may be anything from difficult to impossible — and care needs to be taken not to crack a ceramic basin when unscrewing a tight cleaning eye . |
| 48 | Poles had proved in 1830 – 1 that they posed a genuine threat to the unity of the empire , but Ukrainians were not to constitute a significant danger for decades . |
| 49 | Mary Hoffman 's Amazing Grace , illustrated by Caroline Binch and published by Francis Lincoln , is probably the best recent children 's book not to win a major prize . |
| 50 | But if the room is not to look a complete jumble you have to try to create distinct areas for relaxing , sleeping , eating and work . |
| 51 | In a case where a court does have a discretion whether or not to award a judicial remedy despite the existence of an alternative non-judicial remedy , what factors are relevant to deciding how to exercise that discretion ? |
| 52 | Berowne had seemed not to expect a reciprocal confidence , indiscretion traded for indiscretion . |
| 53 | This is not to suggest a unilinear path of ever-increasing usage . |
| 54 | Individualised reformation as a dominant penal principle did not emerge here until the early part of the twentieth century , when positivist criminology was in the ascendant ( though , again , that is not to suggest a simple causal relation ) . |
| 55 | I made a mental note not to suggest a dirty weekend away somewhere — well , not yet , anyway . |
| 56 | This court is in a position to define the extent of this common law tort in such a way as not to require a positive amendment of the law by Parliament . |
| 57 | Because hypnosis is concerned with your sense of wellbeing , and the more comfortable you are the more you will be able to relax , it is wiser not to consume a huge meal immediately beforehand . |
| 58 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 59 | On July 11 Shevardnadze became chairman of the committee to organize the DRM 's constituent conference , scheduled for September 1991 , when participants would decide whether or not to form a political party . |
| 60 | The buy-out team will need to decide whether or not to form a new company ( " Newco " ) to make the acquisition . |