Example sentences of "a [noun] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) The tenant should resist a provision not to agree the reviewed rent under the underlease without the landlord 's approval , as the time it could take to obtain such approval could result in the undertenant changing its mind . |
| 3 | She was surprised , because she had thought that she had a vocation not to marry . |
| 4 | A case not proven |
| 5 | However , the coach-driver case was an example of a case not reported directly but taken up in Paul Foot 's column , after the relatives of the victims had made a protest to him about the sentences and the lack of publicity of the case . |
| 6 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 7 | Things are less comfortable measured against corporate investment : the ratio is well down from its 1988 peak , and heading for a level not seen since the 1974 recession . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the gap between ( non-financial ) companies ' reported profits and capital spending is rising : at ¥20.9 trillion , in calendar 1990 it reached 4.9% of GNP , a level not seen since the mid-1970s . |
| 9 | Such a collapse would cause corporate profits to decline to just 3% of GNP ( see chart ) , a level not seen since 1974 . |
| 10 | Under the transitional provisions , where , on 9 March 1992 , employer-related investments that existed on 17 February 1992 exceeded the 5% limit , the fund in question may be required to reduce its net investment in the lease to a level not exceeding 5% of its resources on the earliest date on which payment can be enforced ( assuming the agreement was effected prior to 17 February 1992 ) . |
| 11 | For these students , this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level . |
| 12 | Making a decision not to take the next step up does n't have to be permanent , of course . |
| 13 | Job satisfaction is commonly a crucial factor in a decision not to aim high . |
| 14 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 15 | In these circumstances a decision not to adjourn may be challenged by judicial review . |
| 16 | At Rothschild , for instance , they defend a decision not to invest in British biotechnology by saying that there are no good commercial ideas in Britain . |
| 17 | You are consciously suppressing , your ego is consciously making a decision not to do something even though you know you want to do it . |
| 18 | The strictness of the defence has unfortunate consequences for some controversial publications : distributors are prone to equate political radicalism with a propensity to libel , and are thus provided with a ready-made legal excuse for a decision not to stock them . |
| 19 | A classic example of the latter category is a decision not to appoint or not to promote an employee or office holder or to fail an examinee . |
| 20 | Efforts to retain the character of the original building externally extended to a decision not to clean the brickwork . |
| 21 | A decision not to prescribe or an underestimate of need , with justified caution , may aggravate or precipitate a distressing withdrawal state , which a doctor has a responsibility to prevent or relieve and may make the prisoner unfit to be interviewed . |
| 22 | If it would be a decision not to offer it to a patient dependent on the NHS must be a decision about rationing of resources rather than about clinical need . |
| 23 | The questions which arise in this appeal are whether Miss T. was fit to make a decision not to have a blood transfusion and whether she made a genuine decision of her own volition or whether her decision is to be impugned by the undue influence of her mother . |
| 24 | Patients sought a declaration that the Secretary of State and health authorities were in breach of duty as they had had to wait an unreasonable time , because of a decision not to build a new block for a hospital on grounds of cost . |
| 25 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 26 | The Assembly , which was a kind of democracy , though a rather small , special and elite one , was liable to the bad democratic habit of rapidly overturning its own or its advisers ' decisions : so for instance Thucydides ( vi.89ff. ) implies that a single speech by Alcibiades was enough to make the Assembly reverse a decision not to help Syracuse in 414 . |
| 27 | A ballot among 200 controllers at Waterloo resulted in a decision not to pass 999 calls through to the police or the military . |
| 28 | PACs were replaced by unemployment assistance tribunals to which a person aggrieved by a decision not to make a payment , or as to the amount of a payment , could appeal with leave of the chairman . |
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