Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knighton , whose bid to take over Manchester United failed in a blaze of publicity three years ago , said : ‘ Carlisle United will not survive without a development of some kind and I will not stay here subsidising the club . ’ |
| 2 | As the discussion of the previous chapter would suggest , their objectives do not arise ready made in response to some supposed ‘ needs ’ of the accumulation process ; they emerge out of the complex interplay within the state of organized political interests . |
| 3 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |
| 4 | But myths do not exist only to give human proportions to events ; they are also created to mystify experience . |
| 5 | They both tried , no doubt , to put us at our ease , but I do not think either had much understanding of small children . |
| 6 | When I could not think how to answer this , unaccustomed as I was to conversing with People , she went on , ‘ Do you speak English ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs . |
| 9 | It does not cover simply keeping goods after the accused has discovered that they have been stolen : Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 . |
| 10 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not want right done . |
| 12 | as if Erdle knew something about him , or his background , that he did not want generally known . |
| 13 | The rules for modifying behaviour do not spring fully armed out of the genome . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is no extradition treaty between Iran and Britain , though this does not rule out granting a request , if properly formulated . |
| 21 | However , this does not explain how READ could inhibit READY , or any other word of more than four letters beginning with the sequence READ . |
| 22 | Yet it illustrated the fact that the United States could not remain completely isolated from Europe . |
| 23 | Contrary to what Harney says , the disc margins in this condition need not remain well defined . |
| 24 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The Efta states remain outside the jurisdiction of the European Court and free from any EEC decisions which do not relate directly to trade . |
| 26 | Those Illyrians who did not assimilate probably moved to the less hospitable mountainous areas , but little is known of their fate . |
| 27 | Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit . |
| 28 | I am sure that they did not consider just talking to London Transport about that . |
| 29 | This did not mean , the President added , that he had closed the door on negotiations ; merely that he would not consider further offers until the ship had left harbour . |
| 30 | We do not need here to rehearse the contentious issues which surround integration , but it is sometimes aimed that the placement of a child in a mainstream school constitutes integration , or , in any event , that we all understand the same meaning of this term . |