Example sentences of "not to [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be careful not to unconsciously touch anything with even the gloves . |
| 2 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |
| 3 | So , Knitmaster and Silver Reed owners , beware When you drop the ribber , do be careful not to also drop the pile levers into the ‘ closed ’ position or you will be knitting with too big a gap between the beds . |
| 4 | When you 're desperate , you need it , not to just draw out and spend . |
| 5 | they 're gon na make you 're gon na spend nearly a fiver sending all that out to people and really we should be encouraging people to be members and not to just give us money from time to time . |
| 6 | I mean it 's it 's their responsibility to er prepare the local plan in the context of what the structure plan strategy as a whole is saying and I think it 's it 's necessary not to just look at this particular policy in total isolation and assume that that is going to give er what you fear to district councils the ability to nothing . |
| 7 | A martyr of tolerance , I think she would like not to just purse her thin prim lips . |
| 8 | I told you not to fucking thrash the bollocks out of it |
| 9 | He felt that every time he spoke on the subject or appeared on television , some young person might stop smoking or might be persuaded not to even start . |
| 10 | Be sure to remember how poor lay reasoning about causation is : not to even try to collect the data required to test a hypothesis about the relationship between smoking and lung cancer would be to leave the doors open only to those who jump to conclusions on the basis of a sample of one . |
| 11 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 12 | In due course , his successor , Sir Kenneth Newman , echoed this anti-intellectual stance , when he warned insiders that ‘ policemen must remember that they are practitioners , not crusaders ; theirs is to do , not to righteously philosophise ’ ( Police Journal 56 , No. 1 ( 1983 ) ) . |
| 13 | Try not to simply slide your fingers through the hair over the scalp . |
| 14 | In this study we shall be examining crime , and while deviance does overlap with crime it is important not to simply identify crime with deviance . |
| 15 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 16 | It is very important not to simply write it off completely as ‘ a bad day ’ just because things have gone wrong . |
| 17 | Above all , if we are to retain our position in the world league , all internal taxes must be designed so as not to adversely affect the price of our goods abroad . |
| 18 | Thus the freedom to act in a given way , e.g. to protest , attracts an obligation in doing so not to disproportionately interfere with other persons ' freedoms or with society 's interests . |
| 19 | The CML also queried the legal basis of grant limitation in view of ‘ the Law Society 's duty not to unjustifiably fetter its discretion in respect of the operation of the fund ’ . |
| 20 | And he had begged my mother not to ever put me in the bank . |
| 21 | And trust him not to ever say . ’ |
| 22 | Such a situation could only come about if researchers are encouraged to at least prepare for publication , if not to actually publish , papers on their research whilst they are still in the environs of the university . |
| 23 | Such a situation could only come about if researchers are encouraged to at least prepare for publication , if not to actually publish , papers on their research whilst they are still in the environs of the university . |
| 24 | Now if we do that then er if you know how to plan a burglary and we 're relying on you not to actually take this in |
| 25 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 26 | Ah yes , he knows , she thought ; and I do n't trust him not to suddenly humiliate me further — to send some remark flying the length of the table . |
| 27 | I 'm trying not to really drink . |