Example sentences of "and [not/n't] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , he had done it very quietly and gently-not to wake me , I suppose … ’ |
| 2 | There is the clear command to join in fellowship with the Lord 's people and not to forsake our , the gi the assembling of ourselves together er , as some folk do , but to meet together with God 's people , to grow in his family . |
| 3 | Insiders are in a privileged position ; they are under a moral duty to act responsibly , and not to profit from information which they receive but do not own . |
| 4 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 5 | When life seems ordinary St James encourages us to wait patiently and joyfully for Christ 's coming and not to lose heart . |
| 6 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 7 | Right from the beginning the dieter should be learning to eat according to internal hunger cues and not to binge . |
| 8 | And so in the mother church , there is a call to be pioneers again in new areas , and not to settle back , and this leads to growth in faith as people learn to call out to God again . |
| 9 | And not to lean on him too heavily . |
| 10 | As numerous fitted-up Irishmen can bear witness , and not to mention James Hanratty and others , were they able to speak from the grave , hallowed British justice is a myth . |
| 11 | The Gulf War , the re-alignment of Eastern Europe , the breakup of the USSR , the Middle East and not to mention Africa and South America given little support for anyone to disagree with SwissRe 's view . |
| 12 | And not to mention that their most crucial department ( the defence ) remained unchanged ( as usual ) . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 14 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 15 | The BSO is not likely to support this function very successfully because it is a relatively broad and unspecific classification scheme , with only sufficient specification for the classification of organizations concerned with the control of information ( for example , libraries , clearing houses , abstracting and indexing agencies ) and not to support the indexing of , say , individual periodical articles . |
| 16 | American industrialists , critical of the performance of the occupation , had urged a reversal of policy so as to increase Japan 's capacity to stand on her own feet and not to receive excessive subsidies from the United States . |
| 17 | I have already mentioned that November and March are the two periods relevant and it is advisable to give the earliest convenient general alert to a parliamentary agent of the necessity for an order and not to wait until the details have all been thrashed out before contacting him . |
| 18 | The grant was established two years ago to kick-start developments and not to replace funding of existing services . |
| 19 | The new centre , which was to cost some 60,000,000 European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.09565 or pounds 0.67654 as at July 5 , 1989 ) was to be run by Eurocontrol , the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation ; it was intended only to co-ordinate , and not to replace , the separate national systems , however . |
| 20 | This programme , which is still at the experimental stage and therefore subject to adjustment in the light of experience , is intended to supplement and not to replace the close personal supervision which graduate students are entitled to expect . |
| 21 | We have to look on , more or less helplessly , since our present plan is not to use force and not to promote an incident " . |
| 22 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 23 | subject board members are encouraged to view syllabuses and reading lists in this light , and not to undertake a detailed critique of each one ’ . |
| 24 | The only effect of the agreement was to give Foakes time to pay and not to forgive him anything . |
| 25 | Often their request for help was for further insemination and not to treat the actual sexual problem . |
| 26 | The new religion had to be seen to meet existing needs , and not to overtax the courage its converts would need to break with the religion of their ancestors . |
| 27 | In subsequent speeches the same day , Hitler exhorted the Party and nation to maintain discipline , and not to depart from the path of legality in the matter . |
| 28 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 29 | Right I 'll try and not to deafen you this time . |
| 30 | I 'm asking you to accept that I 've got reasons , and not to ask me what they are . |