Example sentences of "not [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
| 2 | The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy . |
| 3 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 4 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 5 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 6 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 7 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 8 | If there was some difficulty involved which resulted in your leaving a job , avoid referring to it , but do not resort to outright lying as this will rebound badly against you if you are found out . |
| 9 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
| 10 | The outsiders either would not or could not resort to those tactics which were thought to have assisted the establishment of the three large criminal practices characterised by an ‘ outside ’ solicitor as ‘ The Barons ’ ( Thomas and Mungham 1976 ; Smith and Thomas 1978 ) . |
| 11 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
| 12 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 13 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 14 | But Lord Zouch , President of the Council , who was no friend to the professional judges there , discounted the notion that they were taking bribes : ‘ I mean not money to any magistrate , ’ he remarked . |
| 15 | It 's not money to us , it 's a way of life . |
| 16 | Use this where your employee has not entitlement to SSP or where that entitlement has run out but he or she is still sick . |
| 17 | You 're not tape to taping are you ? |
| 18 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 19 | Family life needs a bit of tolerance on both sides — not recourse to the law . |
| 20 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 21 | He was , see that they are saying , it is not theft to be theft |
| 22 | In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation . |
| 23 | If I could get away from him , not talk to him I was happy but if he spoke to me I was ju literally shake in me shoes , he gave you that , he was that erm type of man , although he was kind enough really , but he was really gruff . |
| 24 | Counsel for the plaintiff pointed out that under the private Act the corporation had a power of absolute and immediate distress in the event of non-payment of dues , though the court did not advert to this . |
| 25 | The Lords in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not advert to deception offences when determining the law of objective recklessness . |
| 26 | However , according to Reid ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 213 ( CA ) the accused is , it seems , guilty of reckless manslaughter if he does not advert to a risk which ought to have been taken seriously and someone dies . |
| 27 | As mirror of reality , not Monument to Creativity . |
| 28 | The law says you can marry at 16 , but not consent to homosexual acts until you are 21 . |
| 29 | so the Jamaicans not need to mine |
| 30 | Burton had no middle-class expectations , and certainly no desire to ape aristocratic ways he was not heir to . |