Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern .
3 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 .
4 The hon. Gentleman 's attitude does not do justice to the seriousness of this debate .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 The Public Order Act does not require notice to be given of such assemblies nor is there any power to ban .
8 The Act does not allow children to be removed from home simply because other arrangements may cater better for their needs .
9 The Court held that marriage does not imply consent to fellatio .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 While there were fluctuations , it seemed officers in charge did not draw attention to the periods when dependency levels were lighter .
13 Nature did not intend calves to be born in the Autumn , and the problems are , therefore , greater .
14 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 ?
15 In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough .
16 An attempt has been made to submit a Design Change ( DC ) which references modules to which the submitter does not have access to .
17 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 .
18 The symmetric stretching mode does not give rise to a dipole change , and hence is inactive in the IR .
19 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 .
20 Such a brief summary does not do justice to the detail and complexity of Kemp 's argument .
21 The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions .
22 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 .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 The Holy Spirit does not draw attention to himself .
25 Alternatively , if in exercise of their supervisory duty under s.9(1) the disposal authority form the opinion that modification of the licence conditions is necessary to ensure that the disposal operation does not cause pollution to water or danger to public health , or become seriously detrimental to the amenities of the locality then s.7(1) ( b ) imposes a further duty on them , i.e. the disposal authority SHALL serve a notice on the company modifying the conditions .
26 The interest in question has to relate to the land or building covered by the application so that , for example , an application for a change of use for a third floor does not require notice to be served on anyone with an interest in any of the other floors .
27 Even if a will does not give property to trustees , the property , whether real or personal , does not go directly to those for whose benefit it is given , nor does property passing on intestacy go directly to those entitled under the rules above stated .
28 Hence it is the closed national state which afforded to capitalism its chance for development — and as long as the national state does not give place to a world empire capitalism also will endure .
29 One afternoon did not blind Brady to the demands of the future , however .
30 He came calling for Europe to work towards economic integration to ensure that the democratic hopes of people in the East did not give way to an opposite undertow of disillusion .
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