Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the last election , he and Douglas Hurd , then the Home Secretary , drew up a list of the jobs they would seek not to do after the election . |
| 2 | Traditionally , phonemes were supposed not to overlap in their allophones , so that the only plosives that could have allophones with bilabial place of articulation were and ; this restriction is no longer looked on as so important . |
| 3 | Page numbering not starting at 1 |
| 4 | The Football Association will know not to mess with the PFA . |
| 5 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 6 | The government finally agreed to fresh negotiations and promised not to proceed with legislation on banning strikes for two years . |
| 7 | They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said . |
| 8 | But stations particularly unstaffed appear not to fall within its remit . |
| 9 | Concepts concerning relationships between units are probably acquired in school , and most pupils appear not to deal with Imperial units to any great extent in the mathematics classroom . |
| 10 | If such links are not built , schooling will suffer from being not only detached from the lifelong vision of education and retraining which is foreseen by the CBI , the TECs and the NCVQ but also from appearing not to care about continuity , feed-through and quality assurance . |
| 11 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 12 | The one redress any of the members of this group have is to try not to appear on the poll tax register . |
| 13 | The person chosen puts his face in the frame as if he is a picture and then he has to try not to laugh as the rest tell their best jokes and make the funniest expressions . |
| 14 | Peers are asked if they wish to be granted ‘ leave of absence ’ and , if they do not reply in the negative , are expected not to attend without giving 30 days ' notice of intention to do so . |
| 15 | Mr Stern has not flinched from talking to buyers , sellers , advisers , consultants , accountants , friends , farmers and agents in his determination to buy at what he considers a reasonable price . |
| 16 | This obscurity has not detracted from the approach 's popularity , and many widely held notions about psychology have originated in the cinema , in magazines or novels , based on interpretations of psychoanalytic thought . |
| 17 | John remembers he has not eaten for twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | Dost stressed that ‘ so far the Government of the DRA has not received from the EEC or from any other organ any proposal in connection with the so-called ‘ conference on Afghanistan ’ ’ . |
| 19 | I arrive at length at the present appeal , one striking feature of which is that , whilst not formally abandoning them , counsel for the applicant has not pressed with any vigour either of the grounds upon which the Divisional Court decided in his favour , namely that the Director was entitled to ask questions after charge but only after administering a fresh caution , and that the fact of such a caution would be a reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer , within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 . |
| 20 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 21 | ( d ) If the victim is not deceived , the accused has not obtained by deception . |
| 22 | This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period . |
| 23 | Indeed the number of police officers per thousand of population in the Thames Valley has not increased since nineeteen sixty eight , although demands on the police here have trebled . |
| 24 | Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Housing Executive said : ‘ While building costs have increased the tender price has not increased at the same rate . |
| 26 | Despite good performances from both sectors , this share has not increased from last year which reflects some positive performances from other key sectors . |
| 27 | The level of giving has not increased in real terms at all significantly in the late 1980s despite attempts to increase its attractiveness through various tax reliefs . |
| 28 | In the light of the methodological weaknesses and the fact that euthanasia without explicit requests was not permitted ( but still yielded 1000 cases per year ) we are not convinced that LAWER has not increased in frequency . |
| 29 | The chimpanzee has not waited for evolution to shape its body into a specialised tool . |
| 30 | Its exact nature has not emerged to the satisfaction of all readers . |