Example sentences of "not [vb infin] out [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular . |
| 2 | DEMOS advocated a new Yugoslav confederation in which Slovenia would enjoy virtually full sovereignty and economic independence , but did not rule out holding a referendum on secession if the Yugoslav federal authorities would not accept its plans for a new Slovene constitution , a separate currency , and withdrawal of all Slovene conscripts from the Yugoslav People 's Army . |
| 3 | Speaking on the BBC 's Election Call , the Education Secretary did not rule out abstaining on a Queen 's Speech from a minority Labour government . |
| 4 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But it did not rule out taking milk from Milk Marque , the proposed replacement for the English and Welsh Milk Marketing Board , or from other co-operatives . |
| 6 | The Jordanian foreign minister , Kamel Abu Jaber , speaking after talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus , called for the return of all the deported Palestinians , but in Cairo , the Lebanese prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , did not rule out resuming the peace negotiations before the issue of the deportees was resolved . |
| 7 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 8 | There is no extradition treaty between Iran and Britain , though this does not rule out granting a request , if properly formulated . |
| 9 | Can you see why they do not work out to fit exactly into the decimal system ? |
| 10 | This is the limit of MPTN 's ambitions ; it specifically does not set out to enable dissimilar applications to communicate . |
| 11 | The Alexander Technique does not set out to cure specific symptoms , but it does help to uncover and change those harmful and unconscious habit patterns which , all too often , are the underlying cause of a problem . |
| 12 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 13 | A line is drawn under which the base category of the explanatory variable is noted ; the fact that some working class children attend selective secondary schools ( path a ) reminds us that there are some factors influencing attendance at such schools that this particular model does not set out to explain . |
| 14 | Technologists might , but they did not set out to do so . |
| 15 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 16 | Although the film is full of comments on the remaining cultural differences between east and west , it does not set out to make fun of the east Germans . |
| 17 | ESPEW did not set out to make the printing trade a priority recruitment area . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not set out to make a fool of you . |
| 19 | In the Discourse of the Common Weal Smith ( to whom it is now attributed ) did not set out to delineate the structure of society , but rather to present and analyse the responses of the four main economic interests in the community to the crisis of the late 1540s . |
| 20 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 21 | What the model does not set out to capture , but which is clearly most important , is the small group interdependence of oligopolistic competition . |
| 22 | And he raged because he could not reach out to interpose his power fist . |
| 23 | She knew that he would cause a scene on her when he came in if she did not go out to talk to him . |
| 24 | Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality . |
| 25 | It is assumed by the survey , and accepted by most historians of the period that married women with children did not go out to work unless they had to . |
| 26 | During the 1940s and 1950s , when the concept of ‘ maternal deprivation ’ was growing in popularity and links were being made between it and juvenile delinquency , Professor Zweig still found National Assistance officials ready to label the widow with school-age children who did not go out to work as an ‘ inferior type ’ and a ‘ professional ’ widow . |
| 27 | Ellen and I did not go out to eat . |
| 28 | However , teenagers do not go out saying to themselves that they are going to smash a couple of telephone boxes or fight another group of teenagers . |
| 29 | They did not go out giving intellectual addresses saying : ‘ Come to our seminar and we 'll discuss the epistemological significance of the empty tomb . |
| 30 | Mrs Edwards , of Cefn Mawr , said : ‘ I did not want a verdict he was killed in action because he did not go out to fight ; he went out to keep the peace . ’ |