Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 2 | Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents . |
| 3 | The bill claimed to be ‘ putting the patient in the driving seat ’ , but it did not even allow patients to be consulted if a hospital decided to opt out of regional health authority control , he said . |
| 4 | Koshland also found that the depolarisation and ACh acted in similar but parallel ways ; habituation to , say , ACh stimulation did not also produce habituation to depolarisation . |
| 5 | They need to remember that even Jesus did not primarily draw attention to himself , but taught men that they could find the Father through the way he showed , the truth he revealed , and the life he lived . |
| 6 | The fact that his life is totally unrecorded until 866 need not suggest that Ermentrude 's own influence was limited , but shows that a royal marriage did not necessarily bring honours to the bride 's close kinsmen . |
| 7 | Central units did not commonly tailor courses to library requirements , although this is not necessarily a disadvantage . |
| 8 | Unlike negotiation , consultation procedures do not generally allow disagreements to be referred up to higher levels of the machinery ; once the formal consultation has taken place , management may implement its measures with or without agreement . |
| 9 | Although , at this stage , there is still some mismatch between policy and practice since the research findings revealed that some children do not yet have access to an effective modern language curriculum . |
| 10 | But the mass media do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system . |
| 11 | I do not normally give way to someone who has just ambled into the Chamber , but I shall make an exception on this occasion , because I rather like the hon. Gentleman 's florid looks . |
| 12 | A special link is used in conjunction with passwords and allows users who do not normally have access to a user 's modules without supplying a valid password ( as they are in a different branch of the user tree ) . |
| 13 | Do not automatically add salt to a meal . |
| 14 | Another disadvantage of yield to maturity is that investors do not typically hold bonds to maturity . |
| 15 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |
| 16 | ‘ The figures show that people do not really watch television to be informed , they watch it to relax , ’ said David Graham , whose research company compiled the top 100 . |
| 17 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |
| 18 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 19 | Trucks did n't just set fire to themselves . |
| 20 | Because because I , I did n't really say goodbye to some of those people . |
| 21 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 22 | Mmm , well we do n't particularly want access to exempted from the procedure . |
| 23 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 24 | ‘ I mean , bosses do n't usually send flowers to their employees , do they ? |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't always see eye to eye , ’ Marler reflected , blowing smoke circles , ‘ Newman and I. But he 's had a tough time , I 'll give him that . ’ |
| 26 | " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . " |
| 27 | They do n't always see eye to eye but they respect one another . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , we do n't always see eye to eye about things . |
| 29 | Knowing our past does not automatically yield solutions to the problems of the present : but without a knowledge of the past it would be impossible even to contemplate addressing these problems . |
| 30 | Cocaine addiction does not invariably give rise to physiological addiction and there may be no significant physical effects of withdrawal . |