Example sentences of "not to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only case to apply this approach to the running of covenants is Boyer v Warbey [ 1953 ] 1 QB 234 , in which Denning LJ stated : " I know that before the Judicature Act 1873 , it was said that the doctrine of covenants running with the land only applied to covenants under seal and not to agreements under hand … |
| 2 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 3 | He is entitled to protect both of these : see Morris ( Herbert ) and Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571. 3.1 The employer 's special trade connections The employer is entitled only to protect his business against use of his special trade connections by others but not to protection from competition from his former employee : see the Morris ( Herbert ) case . |
| 4 | When he says that ‘ English ’ relates to such cultural characteristics as ‘ objectivity ’ in specific ways , he is referring to a language-system , not to English in the loose everyday sense . |
| 5 | Difficulty had been experienced in making the previous law work , because it depended on the need to prove a particular act of distribution , not to members of a club or association of which the defendant himself was a member . |
| 6 | The defence applies only to retailers and not to others in the distribution chain who can rely upon another defence of general application under s39 , namely , " due diligence " . |
| 7 | Its conclusion is that there are no mistakes whatever in it , and , if any apparent mistakes are found , this must be due to our interpretation and not to problems in the text . |
| 8 | On the outside of the rampart there was an astonishing collection of white skeletons which he tried not to look at but which rattled unpleasantly as the jackals took to their heels at his approach . |
| 9 | A library is where you go not to look for books but to consult an index or catalogue . |
| 10 | That Committee , and the CDP itself , took issue with the proposal to authorize internal validation related to specific subject areas and not to institutions as a whole . |
| 11 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 12 | Uderzo says they preferred not to film in America : ‘ They would have had a very different idea of how to approach the jokes . |
| 13 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 14 | In part this is due not to ignorance of the Act , but rather to the not unreasonable proposition that , since the Act prescribes no penalty for inserting such clauses , in cases of doubt it is better to have the clause present " in terrorem " , even if , in the ultimate event of legal proceedings , it is held invalid . |
| 15 | And since she had no idea where to go yet , even if she could get off the island , the only course possible was to take things a step at a time and try not to rail against a spiteful fate . |
| 16 | Geographically the first phase of brooches tend not to duster in any particular region and are found dispersed over much of England . |
| 17 | My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong . |
| 18 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 19 | After another fond peep at his sleeping face , she crept out of the room , softly closed the door , and gathering up her skirt in order not to trip over the hem on the way down the stairs , swiftly retraced her steps back to the kitchen and Cissie . |
| 20 | Perhaps she was only going to warn her yet again not to trip over the electric cables . |
| 21 | She placed the cheque in her bag , let herself out through the back way and , checking that Ryan had gone , because she did n't want him following her , she walked along the lane , careful not to trip on muddy ruts . |
| 22 | This was due , not to lack of discoveries but to a disinclination by the oil companies to invest the huge sums necessary to develop discoveries because of the onerous terms of the UK fiscal regime . |
| 23 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 24 | The ultimate weakening of this unique ascendancy was due not to lack of outstanding operatic composers to continue the tradition , though vernacular opera — sometimes consciously national and therefore to some extent anti-Italian — produced more and more gifted rivals . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State for the Environment told the House of Commons that ‘ after taking legal advice ’ he had decided that ‘ the term ‘ maximum admissible concentration ’ in the European Community Drinking Water Directive should relate to individual samples and not to averages over a period ’ . |
| 26 | It calls for this union 's sponsored MPs not to pair with Tory M Ps . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is not as useless as Aristotelian logic and can lead , if not to knowledge of necessary causes and natures , then to something worthwhile nevertheless . |
| 28 | Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own . |
| 29 | But Conran had decided not to soft-pedal in the US and had made up his mind to make a big splash immediately , which required large investments which it took years to recoup . |
| 30 | However this latter treaty applies to treaties between States and international organisations , or international organisations inter se , not to treaties between States establishing international organisations . |