Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services . |
| 2 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 3 | All company data obtained were screened to make sure they were Scotch Whisky specific , and did not relate to other spirits related sales and production costs . |
| 4 | In the emergency room he appeared deeply comatose : his eyes were closed and he did not react to noxious stimuli . |
| 5 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 6 | Marryat was not avoiding actuality : his authentic plots did not extend to emotional exploration . |
| 7 | So far as wasted costs orders were concerned , cover was already provided by the BMIF for the benefit of those who had been made subject to such orders ; but that cover did not extend to related costs . |
| 8 | But the problem remained that the physical basis of Ampère 's equations was implausible ; they provided a model which could be adapted to fit new discoveries , but which did not lead to new predictions or give a convincing explanation to those whose first language was not mathematics-like Faraday . |
| 9 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 10 | In a period when the social , political and economic priorities of the rural community would seem to have been largely disregarded , the attention paid to the urban sector did not lead to huge improvements in the social , political and economic environment of the inhabitants of the towns and cities . |
| 11 | Yet the return of the Republicans from the wilderness did not lead to massive changes in domestic policy . |
| 12 | As far as the aristocracy were concerned , it did not lead to fundamental changes in the social structure ; where wealth changed hands , it was generally within the existing dominant class . |
| 13 | Although he did not refer to sentencing practices as such , the traditional English approach to sentencing certainly provides an excellent example of Weber 's khadi justice which ‘ knows no rational ‘ rules of decision ’ and eschews the giving of reasons for decisions . |
| 14 | Bentley 's group theory postulated that the study of politics was the study of the conflict between groups , although his work did not refer to organised interest groups only but to groups with shared views . |
| 15 | Ford et al ( 1986 ) carried out a study in a psychiatric setting in the USA arising from their concern that many confused elderly people , particularly those in advanced stages of Alzheimer 's disease , did not respond to verbal communication and staff found it difficult to understand their attempts at communicating . |
| 16 | A licence has been awarded to drugs firm Bristol-Myers Squibb to use paclitaxel for treatment of ovarian cancer in women who did not respond to other treatments , but the chemical may also be effective against head , neck and lung cancers . |
| 17 | Of the two patients who did not respond to prolonged treatment one had extremely high initial serum HBV-DNA levels ( >1000 pg/ml ) , while both patients had near normal aspartate aminotransferase levels at entry . |
| 18 | He had suffered severe migraine which did not respond to conventional treatment . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal had held that s. 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , permitting discrimination in relation to retirement , operated , and the provision of travel facilities in this way did not amount to unlawful discrimination ( see [ 19791 I WLR 754 ) . |
| 20 | The RCM held aloof for the same reason that it kept out of Poland — the resources did not stretch to additional responsibilities , or so it was argued . |
| 21 | I wondered that her prejudices did not stretch to itinerant Arabs . |
| 22 | ( The fountain did not play : Esther was not a magician , and college rooms did not rise to running water for people , let alone fountains . ) |
| 23 | They alleged that judicial procedures did not conform to international norms and that the confessions which had proved crucial in the convictions had been extracted through the use of torture . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , an awareness that Japan was acutely vulnerable to threats of superior force , a resentment that Japan was considered inferior because she did not conform to Western standards and models , and a perception that other nations were prepared to act ‘ unfairly ’ to maximize the advantages that could be gained from any particular situation , made Japan determined to achieve equal status with the so-called Great Powers , or indeed , to surpass them . |
| 25 | In this case the ECJ ruled that Germany could not ban the importing of Cassis de Dijon ( a French alcoholic beverage ) , on the grounds that it did not conform to German rules and regulations governing the sale of alcoholic beverages . |
| 26 | The Ladies ' Golf Union conformed with the Royal and Ancient decision that competition in all British open amateur events should use the big ball ( 1.68 inches ) , but it did not apply to international team events . |
| 27 | However , the Act did not apply to new dwellings built after 1919 or to dwellings converted to flats after that date . |
| 28 | That could cause difficulties and if such an inhibition operated which did not apply to other bus companies it could make it difficult for management-employee buy-out teams to raise funds . |
| 29 | Although that decision was not mentioned in the Tudor Grange case , by analogy the Unfair Contract Terms Act did not apply to secondary contracts which were retrospective waivers of existing claims . |
| 30 | It did not apply to sexual intercourse under certain circumstances , as where the husband 's conduct was of a particularly outrageous nature . |