Example sentences of "of not [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , the repercussions of not choosing to follow the message are not that extreme . |
| 2 | More significant is his predicament of not wishing to agree to Hollar 's request for Anderson to smuggle his politically-charged thesis out of Czechoslovakia , but , at the same time , not wanting to jeopardise their friendship . |
| 3 | Democrats are hence navigating , as one of them put it , between the Scylla of not wishing to undercut Mr Bush 's diplomacy and the Charybdis of not wishing to give him a blank cheque . |
| 4 | Democrats are hence navigating , as one of them put it , between the Scylla of not wishing to undercut Mr Bush 's diplomacy and the Charybdis of not wishing to give him a blank cheque . |
| 5 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 6 | matter of not getting caught With your fingers in the till . |
| 7 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 8 | Until Rose came he had reached the stage of not wanting to go out . |
| 9 | To her bewilderment , though , she suddenly experienced a most compelling feeling of not wanting to leave Mariánské Láznë next Tuesday ! |
| 10 | Thompson and West in a study of preferences for sheltered housing which included a sample of people of all ages who suffered from rheumatism and arthritis , found among these respondents ‘ a strong feeling of not wanting to impose on relatives ’ ( Thompson and West , 1984 , p. 318 ) , and the older respondents were even less willing than the younger to consider the option of being cared for by kin . |
| 11 | But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group 's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth . |
| 12 | The air is thick with dust , accumulated over years of not-remembering , years of not wanting to know . |
| 13 | There may also be an element of not wanting to change cosy ( although dilapidated ) branch structures , by bringing in new members . |
| 14 | ‘ There is something nicely paradoxical about advertising selling the unsaleable — selling the idea of NOT wanting to buy . ’ |
| 15 | No-one could accuse Winterbottom of not wanting to deliver . |
| 16 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 17 | Buswatch has the virtue of not attempting to score points off harassed operators , and one of the most interesting dimensions of this excellent report is a record of the responses given by bus company managers to some of the issues raised . |
| 18 | You have a reputation of not letting go of a thing once you have started and you would be delighted to discover that I am responsible for Ana 's blindness . |
| 19 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 20 | I accused him ( not very bitterly ) of not having sent the CND cheque . |
| 21 | And this raises the question of whether Havel 's talent had begun to be affected by the nervous strain of writing under surveillance and of not having seen any of his work performed since 1969 . |
| 22 | Then he holed from 20ft at the long second and six feet at the fifth and sixth to maintain his record of not having suffered a failure in Europe since the Cannes Open two years ago . |
| 23 | Put another way , the cost of capital is the cost to lenders and investors of not having done something else with their money : the rate of return they could expect to earn on investments of equal risk . |
| 24 | Still has that remarkable record of not having missed a single game since he signed for Leicester from Sheffield United . |
| 25 | The exhilaration of not having to account for my movements to my parents went to my head . |
| 26 | After 1714 the balance shifted to a point where the King and the Commons had something like mutual vetoes : the King chose the ministers and could normally be sure of not having to put up with a minister he disliked , but the Commons could reject a minister they disliked by refusing to vote for the taxes he proposed , thus pushing the King into dismissing him . |
| 27 | It promises to be an intriguing clash with Saints aiming to extend their magnificent Regal Trophy record of not having lost a first round match for 11 years the best run in the competition which they share with cup kings Wigan . |
| 28 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 29 | Business cards also serve the function of not having to memorise instantaneously the names and positions of one 's business counterparts and they provide a record for future reference . |
| 30 | On coming home , one , because of psychological stress and the consequences of not having resolved anything , preferred not to face the future — and therefore took an overdose . |