Example sentences of "[vb -s] not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 2 | We are fortunate in that the rabbit population has not to date found us , although in 1983 we had to provide rabbit guards to comply with grant conditions , which were hideous white twists of plastic . |
| 3 | The stopped chamfer template has not to my knowledge been marketed , readers who want one will just have to make their own . |
| 4 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 5 | The profession has not to date , unlike the world of venture capital , perceived any practical advantages to be obtained from their use . |
| 6 | It certainly has n't to date provided too many solutions for the voluntary sector . |
| 7 | It 's for this reason that shareware has n't to be confused with public domain ( PD ) software . |
| 8 | Erm but it has n't to the best of my knowledge it has not resulted in a rash of of developments and motorway intersections . |
| 9 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 10 | ( His answer is that the unseen hand belongs not to Adam Smith 's market forces but to Chris Patten , the leftish party chairman . |
| 11 | The cult of self-help , usually visited upon the poor , actually belongs not to the poor but to participants in society , the respectable , self-helping , self-respecting institutions of organised communities and classes . |
| 12 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 13 | Finally , the authors advance the widely held view that thrombosis contributes not to the initiation of the process but to its progression . |
| 14 | Indeed some theologians argue that ‘ creation ’ refers not to what happened ‘ in the beginning ’ but to a constant dependence of the world upon God . |
| 15 | The phrase damnatio memoriae ( formal condemnation of an emperor following his death ) refers not to the repealing of the acts of an unpopular emperor but to the destruction of his images and the elimination of his name from inscriptions . |
| 16 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 17 | This ‘ difference ’ refers not to the difference in the law of the actual topic under study ( for that is to confuse the weakness in the technique with the whole rational for undertaking a comparative approach — if the law is not different why compare ? ) . |
| 18 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 19 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 20 | Much of the writing on education and the structure of knowledge refers not to higher education but to the schools , and in particular to the concept of general education at the secondary level . |
| 21 | Apparently , this refers not to the Lower East Side survey , but to Labov 's preparatory department store survey ( Labov , 1966 ; 1972b ) . |
| 22 | The term , then , refers not to an enterprise 's size or age , but to a certain kind of activity . |
| 23 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 24 | It refers not to truncating the inquiry but to the timescale before appointing an inspector and publishing the report . |
| 25 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 26 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 27 | Now this happens not to be the style of other people , but it 's mine . |
| 28 | One simply has to know that ‘ sing ’ is a word but ‘ fing ’ happens not to be one . |
| 29 | But in the case just quoted , the last-named character happens not to be the one who speaks , so the word ‘ she ’ in the source marker becomes important . |
| 30 | Clause 15 of the partnership agreement stated : " in the event of a partnership being [ so determined ] the salaried partner undertakes not to practice within the practice area … " , the practice area being defined . |