Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN . |
| 2 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 3 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
| 4 | There are two disadvantages to this approach ; first , it is enormously time consuming and second , the polygon topology of the input coverage is not preserved , so one can not work back to the initial coverage attributes . |
| 5 | But she decided Daniel 's frail body would not stand up to the painful general anaesthetics and blocked the treatment . |
| 6 | If you still can not reach up to the extreme end and determine that the burrow is now empty you must reintroduce your line ferret once more to do the job for you . |
| 7 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 8 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 9 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 10 | Do not go back to the old gods . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 12 | The two slower movements come off better , but even here the playing , thoughtful though it is , does not match up to the rapt quality which the finest artists achieve in this music , and the Scherzo surprisingly fails to take flight ( its Trio is plain dull ) . |
| 13 | Expatriates may feel that Britain has gone ‘ downhill ’ while they have been away and homecoming does not match up to the good life abroad . |
| 14 | Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it . |
| 15 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 16 | At tissue level , the end point of good healing is scar tissue , which does not match up to the original tissue lost in injury . |
| 17 | It is on this point that participant observation in practice very often does not match up to the ideal form and some consideration should be given to the situation arising . |
| 18 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 19 | Is my hon. Friend worried — as I am — that the Bill will perhaps not get through to the next stage given the fact that this morning the Northern Region Councils Association — a Labour-dominated body — wrote to every Member of Parliament in the northern region asking them to be present for this important debate ? |
| 20 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 21 | The practise of putting grease in the swivel housings should be avoided as this does not travel up to the front wheel bearings and leads to their premature failure . |
| 22 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 23 | The end result did n't match up to the pre-race hype . |
| 24 | As a presage , she did n't go up to the top alone . |
| 25 | You do n't go on to the next bit till you 've worked that one out . |
| 26 | ‘ Not all , ’ said Memet , ‘ but we would n't go back to the olive trees — not for ever , not unless we could take our money with us . ’ |
| 27 | Oh they 're going to change the rules that erm , you know there 's two scrumhalfs start on their side of the scrum , well they ca n't come round to the other side . |
| 28 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 29 | The travellers threw missiles , and abandoned some of their vehicles on the road when they could n't get in to the three-day event . |
| 30 | These flows were relatively small and they did n't get down to the lower , inhabited parts of the mountain . |