Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 2 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 3 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |
| 4 | Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power . |
| 5 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 6 | The revolutionaries ' lack of interest in a programme of political reform and gradual extension of the rule of law did not imply indifference to individual liberty . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman 's attitude does not do justice to the seriousness of this debate . |
| 8 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 9 | Although the Act does not make reference to the current climate of opinion about sexual explicitness , juries in obscenity trials are enjoined to keep in mind the current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 10 | The Public Order Act does not require notice to be given of such assemblies nor is there any power to ban . |
| 11 | The Act does not allow children to be removed from home simply because other arrangements may cater better for their needs . |
| 12 | The Court held that marriage does not imply consent to fellatio . |
| 13 | The council does n't expect Swindon to be ready for an assault on Britain in Bloom for some time , but it 's convinced all the effort 's worth it . |
| 14 | It will be apparent from the earlier discussion that a simple assertion about helping old people maintain their independence does not do justice to the subtleties of achieving a balance between independence and dependence which is acceptable or tolerable to the old people concerned . |
| 15 | I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says . |
| 16 | While there were fluctuations , it seemed officers in charge did not draw attention to the periods when dependency levels were lighter . |
| 17 | Nature did not intend calves to be born in the Autumn , and the problems are , therefore , greater . |
| 18 | If a high proportion of its population obtains private treatment should a health authority purchase the same pattern of care from the NHS as one whose population does not have access to the private sector ? |
| 19 | If video killed the radio star , then the continued survival of radio drama must suggest something , like radio drama does n't need stars to be good . |
| 20 | In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough . |
| 21 | An attempt has been made to submit a Design Change ( DC ) which references modules to which the submitter does not have access to . |
| 22 | However , there is tentative evidence from other studies which suggests that adoption with contact does not prevent attachment to a psychological parent , and it can also help the child to base his developing personal , social , and body identity on the reality of the two sets of parents , that is , the biological and psychological ones . |
| 23 | The symmetric stretching mode does not give rise to a dipole change , and hence is inactive in the IR . |
| 24 | The WPBSA 's constitution does not permit player-directors to be paid , but the board voted itself a 50 pence per mile travelling allowance in 1984 and doubled it to £1 per mile this year . |
| 25 | Such a brief summary does not do justice to the detail and complexity of Kemp 's argument . |
| 26 | The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions . |
| 27 | This is because the denizens of the past did n't have access to the theory of cognitive metaphor , and that way of understanding language . |
| 28 | The absence of a Committee on a particular subject ( for example , agriculture or poverty ) does not mean that the Government do not attach importance to it ; and the fact that a particular Minister is not on a Committee does not mean that he does not attend when his interests are affected . |
| 29 | ‘ What I have tried not to do is big black drawings of steel works , ’ said Mr Crowley , who was pleasantly surprised that his pre-conceived image of lots of chemical plants and an over-used river did not do justice to the scene . |
| 30 | The Holy Spirit does not draw attention to himself . |