Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cautioned museums not to embrace wholly mass media which ‘ simplify and cheapen ’ the experience of art , and declared the museum 's main purpose is not preservation , but ‘ cultivation of the human spirit ’ . |
| 2 | Take care not to swim out too far , particularly on deserted beaches . |
| 3 | Although one bed looks much like another , it 's the one piece of furniture not to economise on . |
| 4 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 6 | It would be silly not to see inside . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , one ought not to underplay significantly the degree of consensus aimed for in England and Wales through consultation and extensive teacher participation in National Curriculum syllabus working groups , even if this system was rather undermined by the government 's rejection of several of the history working party 's recommendations . |
| 8 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 9 | I had them ? ’ asked Endill , trying not to sound too eager . |
| 10 | Jonadab dismounted and trying his best not to sound too impressed , said with a nod of his head , ‘ They 're even got their own farrier . ’ |
| 11 | Finch asked from bed after the first morning , trying not to sound too alert . |
| 12 | ‘ Which came first ? ’ he asked , exerting himself not to sound too eager for the answer . |
| 13 | Right-wing leaders were careful not to sound too victorious a note , fearing a possible demobilisation of their supporters next weekend through an excess of confidence and optimism . |
| 14 | He 's been very careful er not to sound too bellicose , er but to keep force in reserve . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , we 'll have that anyway , ’ said Breeze , trying not to sound as alarmed as she felt . |
| 16 | All my life I had done my best not to sound off in company . |
| 17 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 18 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 19 | In that case there was an agreement by the defendant with his employer , a tailor , not to carry on " any business whatsoever " for a period of two years within a certain area . |
| 20 | These are usually temporary measures which can be obtained quite swiftly and will involve the court directing the developer not to carry out the development until the court has had an opportunity to consider the dispute in detail . |
| 21 | From every point of view , therefore , the Crabb affair was a classic example of how not to carry out a dangerous covert operation . |
| 22 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 23 | The Commission noted that , in certain circumstances , such as where the parties agree not to carry out other research and development in the same field , these agreements might infringe Article 85(1) . |
| 24 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 25 | If an authority has decided to do an act which is allegedly illegal but has not yet done it then , of course , the applicant will want to challenge the decision to act and to obtain an order instructing the authority not to carry out its decision . |
| 26 | Then the punishing firm ‘ s best response to this is not to carry out the punishment but to produce its corresponding profit maximizing output . |
| 27 | The object of the following analysis is not to carry out a Stalinist witch-hunt of the text in order to pillory a deviant , existential , petty-bourgeois discourse ensconced illegitimately at the centre of Nizan 's literary production . |
| 28 | There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig . |
| 29 | The Financial Times of March 19 described Assad and Mubarak 's comments as an " apparent signal " to the USA not to carry out further military action against Iraq . |
| 30 | The drying out appears to be continuing despite recent incentives to farmers not to carry out drainage works , and conservation management agreements between the NCC and some 1,000 farmers in the area . |