Example sentences of "[vb infin] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 2 | The fiduciary duties which a director owes to his company are founded on the simple concept that a director must act not only honestly , but in the interests of his company and not in his own interest . |
| 3 | When we include uncertainty , er , we ought to acknowledge that farmers may behave not as profit , profit maximizers erm , but as profit satisfiers , and that 's reflected in their , in their risk-aversion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " The school should seek not to make primary reading the fetish that is has been . |
| 6 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 7 | ( There are also pricing incentives to encourage you to buy all your software from one vendor : from Lotus , for example , you can buy not only spreadsheets but also word processing , electronic mail and graphics , in fact what Mr Ingram calls a complete office system . ) |
| 8 | So we got engaged and waved my family off to Australia ; he knew of a little cottage we could buy not far from his boat yard — his boat yard , ’ she said disparagingly with a little snort of disgust . |
| 9 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 10 | To my mind , it is simply not plausible that a party already securely in government would allow ‘ an outsider ’ to bound one fine morning into the Cabinet Room and take charge of 21 individuals — all of whom , unlike him , would know not only what happened there last week but the battles of previous years as well . |
| 11 | This means that soon , for even more peace of mind , you will know not only what services and facilities you 'll find , but just how good they are . |
| 12 | I 'd hate to do that , so tell me where I blundered and I 'll know not to do it again . ’ |
| 13 | And this time she 'd know not to ask anyone to store her furniture . |
| 14 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 15 | we should have a core a of people who 've handled records of achievement and done records of achievement and they should you know not everybody has but we should what staff are capable of in terms of doing this has has has moved dramatic and there 's some still who struggle but everybody 's getting more and |
| 16 | It was important that she ring her parents to let them know not to expect her that day . |
| 17 | The Football Association will know not to mess with the PFA . |
| 18 | I do n't know not really . |
| 19 | In December 1989 Greenpeace consultants suggested that by 1993 power station emissions would again reach 1980 levels and overall emissions would fall not 22 per cent as the government predicted , but only 10 per cent . |
| 20 | If rectification were ordered , the loss would fall not upon the building society but upon the public purse . |
| 21 | The contract documents , however , may include not only drawings and specifications or a schedule of work but also bills of quantities . |
| 22 | Your reply should therefore include not just what you actually did but any special skills you were able to bring to the job and any particular equipment you have been trained to use . |
| 23 | Physical safety might include not being allowed to wander into dangerous surroundings , or to bathe in scalding hot water . |
| 24 | These conditions can include not only economic factors but also government encouragement and the willingness ( or otherwise ) of employers to recognise and negotiate with them . |
| 25 | The ‘ other professional officers ’ whose comments might be incorporated if appropriate would include not only the officers and advisers of the authority and centrally employed caring and counselling staff but also teaching and ancillary colleagues within the school . |
| 26 | Life-chances : that is , all those material advantages which improve the equality of life of the recipient this may include not only economic advantages of wealth and income , but also benefits such as health or job security . |
| 27 | The Commission felt that , to save time and expense , authorities able to execute requests should include not only courts , but commissioners , notaries public , lawyers and others , insofar as they could be given ‘ certain attributes of a judicial authority ’ . |
| 28 | The record should include not only the fact that they mate regularly but also that matings are fertile . |
| 29 | This will include not only the subject matter it is essential to master , but the skills it is essential to practise , as well as social and motivational aims , and subsidiary objectives . |
| 30 | When we deal with semantic categories , we find that occurrences cut across grammatical categories : for example , the concept of " negation " can include not only the negative particle not , but other word classes such as pronouns ( nothing , nobody ) and adverbs ( nowhere , never ) , and even items which have no morphological resemblance to these , such as unfinished , impossible , false , hardly . |