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 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cocaine addiction does not invariably give rise to physiological addiction and there may be no significant physical effects of withdrawal . |
| 19 | The right of reply privilege does not merely protect responses to criticisms made in Parliament , of course : it is a privilege of general application , arising from the legitimate interest of individuals in protecting their reputations , and it is shared by the media when it facilitates that interest . |
| 20 | Our black-and-white picture does not really do justice to its chameleon-like metallic paintwork , which seems to appear as green , silver or blue according to the light . |
| 21 | Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’ |
| 22 | Although the Stock Exchange does not specifically require notes to the interim financial information , it does require an explanatory statement that will enable investors to make an informed assessment of a company 's activities and profit and loss during the period . |