Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top .
2 Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . )
3 If the commissioner finds maladministration and the authority does not remedy it to the satisfaction of the complainant , there is no way in which the complainant can pursue the matter further .
4 But Mr Oteng added : ‘ It is up to the media to try to dispel racist stereotypes , not push them to the forefront .
5 They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’
6 It is because of this fact , that ‘ DEAC ’ the manufacturer states that if a battery is being discharged at the 110 rate you should not discharge it to a voltage of less than 1.1 volts per cell .
7 The British Museum might be glad of the opportunity to study your find , so why not send it to the Keeper of Coins and Medals , who will quickly return it with his comments ?
8 Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not .
9 He need not return them to the seller , who if he wants them must come and collect them , section 36 .
10 Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults .
11 I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way .
12 The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares .
13 His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so .
14 But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things .
15 eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for
16 It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour .
17 The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past .
18 I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel .
19 But intellect does not lead us to the Lord .
20 However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’
21 Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations .
22 However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit .
23 The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture .
24 In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power .
25 In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’
26 But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus .
27 Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty .
28 We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not .
29 Conversely , taking articles with a local authority does not commit you to a career in local government .
30 Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ?
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