Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 2 | In all this , as in everything else in their lives , you can help them best by listening with patience and sympathy , never dismissing their anxieties — however unreasonable they may seem to be — simply by telling them not to worry because you will always see that they are all right . |
| 3 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 4 | It was the part of him that told him he was managing fine and not to change as it would just lead to hassles and worries . |
| 5 | That is not to say that we should only have our Mussorgsky performed by Russian ensembles , but we should at least have the chance to judge for ourselves . |
| 6 | This is not to say that you should never eat these things but that ultimately they should play a minimal part in your day-to-day eating . |
| 7 | This is not to say that you will never deflect the opponent 's attack and then counter , because you will . |
| 8 | ( This is not to say that you can deliberately reach people by advertising ‘ subliminally ’ , merely that it is quite possible to get a message out of an ad without really being aware of it . ) |
| 9 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |