Example sentences of "not [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric Robinson expresses the view that Michael Stewart 's decision not to implement the Robbins proposal to put teacher training under the universities in fact ‘ committed the Wilson government to a ‘ binary ’ policy in higher education' . |
| 2 | As we have seen , when the Conservative government came into office in 1979 , it decided not to implement the Oakes Report proposal that an Advanced Further Education Council for Wales be set up . |
| 3 | British Rail has decided not to include the Allens West halt on the list of stops for a rush-hour service between Middlesbrough and Darlington . |
| 4 | Mr Nicholas Winterton , MP for Macclesfield , has served notice he intends not to support the NHS bill at its second reading on Monday night . |
| 5 | Beaverbrook considered it an achievement that the USA and UK had settled on the 1943 draft as a formula for future negotiations , but US ambassador John Winant , at lunch with Churchill , Berle , and Beaverbrook , thought the Prime Minister wanted the Lord Privy Seal to ‘ soft-pedal ’ the internationalization aspect so as not to offend the USA . |
| 6 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 7 | In January it decided not to revive the May Day parade in Derry ; there was not enough interest and most of the trade-unionists who would be likely to take part would be attending the Belfast parade . |
| 8 | Delegates decided to make 1992 a " Year of Indigenous , Black and People 's Resistance " and called on European countries and the Vatican not to celebrate the Columbus anniversary . |
| 9 | Mr Litmus and Matron were the only two not to visit the Bookman and they refused to have anything to do with the Headmaster 's plans . |
| 10 | This is not to denigrate the NCM treaty . |
| 11 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 12 | When Alan Cairns and other leading ministers opposed the candidacy of William McCrea and James McClelland they did so to preserve the interests of the Free Church and not to aid the DUP by reducing the public presence of Free Presbyterianism in the lists of candidates . |
| 13 | MR DAVID Waddington , the Home Secretary , has decided not to reopen the Birmingham Six pub bombings case despite an appeal by the city 's leading churchmen . |
| 14 | In 1913 Lord Selborne tried to mount a campaign against the sale of honours but he had a lukewarm response : Salisbury thought it would not achieve anything useful , Lansdowne urged that the views of the party organizers should be sought , and Law urged him " not to obscure the Marconi issue " . |
| 15 | On the contrary , their objective was not to overthrow the Franco regime but to adapt it to meet the demands of what promised to be a more international future . |
| 16 | The plan was to go in relays and not to leave the Jonquil unattended , but there was a muddle . |
| 17 | The 23-year-old Teessider , who dropped out of the British decathlon trial at Sheffield last weekend after eight events , has chosen not to chase the Barcelona qualifying score , 7,850 points , in Germany before the selection deadline , June 28 . |
| 18 | Lawrence Greenough , Richard L. Feigen & Co. , London and New York ( first-time exhibitor and New York-based ) : We decided this year not to do the Maastricht fair because our Old Master stock is not primarily Dutch , and visitors there seem principally interested in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings . |
| 19 | I went into hospital with a blank jumbo pad , a pencil so as not to mark the NHS sheets , and the hero 's manuscript . |
| 20 | He starts with the pioneering days at Brooklands and has taken care not to omit the Donington grands prix in 1937-38 where Germany 's Auto Unions and Mercedes were so dominant . |
| 21 | Pressure on the UK government not to ratify the CRAMRA increased further in October following a campaign by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) and the environmental organization Greenpeace , led by the French underwater explorer , Jacques-Yves Cousteau . |
| 22 | ‘ But not too discomfited not to recognise the Knudsen , vel ? ’ he returned softly . |
| 23 | PAUL TSONGAS decided yesterday not to re-enter the US presidential election , despite his strong showing in the New York Democratic primary , where he came second without campaigning . |
| 24 | DEC for its part disassociated itself from statements made by DEC VP of software engineering David Stone as well as its own PR people that DEC had decided not to pursue the OSF/1 path for MIPS . |
| 25 | Jordan 's hope of containing the PLO challenge lay in Washington 's decision in 1975 not to recognize the PLO unless it accepted the legitimacy of Israel and Security Council Resolution 242 . |
| 26 | And today the design I have absolutely promised not to call the Picasso Zebedee will be introduced formally as only the fifth logo to be attached to the 45-year-old jewel in Scotland 's cultural crown . |
| 27 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it would be remiss not to mention The Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 which preserved about 450 Scottish poems , in Sir Walter Scott 's words , ‘ saving the literature of a nation ’ ; John Knox 's major work , The First Book of the History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realme of Scotland of 1587 ; and a 1745 autograph letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie ordering the Duke of Perth to ‘ surprise and seize the Castle of Stirling ’ . |
| 29 | Dutch Gouda , by the way , makes just as good Welsh Rabbit as French Port-Salut ; and there is always Caerphilly from Somerset , not to mention the Caerphilly ( it may , I think , have now vanished ) made by Irish nuns — not I fancy in this case German parachutists . |
| 30 | Not to mention the Dobermanns . |