Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 2 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 3 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 4 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 5 | But it is not enough to do a good job : our professional conduct committees must be seen to be doing a good job . |
| 6 | There was some glow from the tiny window on the half-landing above and behind him , but not enough to do much for the hallway ; the sliver of light under his door was hard-edged , bright , unmistakeable . |
| 7 | The worst Jerome could do , perhaps , but not enough to do his quarry much harm . ’ |
| 8 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 9 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 10 | The reporter was ungentlemanly enough not only to do the calculation and obtain the correct answer but also to print it in the society column . |
| 11 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 12 | This brings into view a number of sub-sequences and minor objectives , as well as forcing the teacher to state to himself what the pupil will need , not only to do , but be able to do , in order to take part in the work . |
| 13 | So now the pressure on the broker is not only to do more business but to do it in exactly their way . ’ |
| 14 | This is not only to do with the intellectual innovations that led to the idea of the first factual surveys through to the social psychological and , finally , to the explanatory surveys incorporating variable analysis , but also to do with what is indicated about the nature of society and social life . |
| 15 | However , I have here rescued the lost experiments on memory transfer from otherwise merciful oblivion not merely to do historical justice to a now suppressed period of my chosen research field but for three rather more solid reasons . |
| 16 | Third , the injustices against which prisoners struggle are not merely to do with the way in which we run our prisons . |
| 17 | All Greek states needed olive oil , not just to do the work of modern soap and artificial light , but as the equivalent of fat in the cooking and preparation of food ( butter was for barbarians ) . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not just to do with surface . |
| 19 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 20 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 21 | Not really to do with us at all . |
| 22 | Um somehow it 's not really to do with whether they were abused or not as children , somehow it 's the it 's the therapist . |
| 23 | It is important to note that this is not simply to do with naturalistic notions of ‘ emotional maturity ’ . |
| 24 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 25 | But the money is n't there to do the proper job , it 's a , if the money was there to do the proper job , I 'd say great let's go ahead and do it , but in policy or principle it 's a wonder there 's a lot good things in it , but there is n't the money to do it . |