Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | While there were fluctuations , it seemed officers in charge did not draw attention to the periods when dependency levels were lighter . |
| 6 | Nature did not intend calves to be born in the Autumn , and the problems are , therefore , greater . |
| 7 | In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | One afternoon did not blind Brady to the demands of the future , however . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that , prior to the enactment of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 , at common law a breach of the duty of care did not give rise to a cause of action in negligence until the plaintiff suffered an injury ; that , although a foetus did not enjoy an independent legal personality , by the time that the plaintiffs were born in 1967 the common law recognised that a child born with a deformity because of a negligent act occurring during the mother 's pregnancy had a cause of action ; and that , therefore , the plaintiffs had a cause of action against the defendant health authorities for any negligent act prior to their birth which caused them to be born with deformities ( post , pp. 654H , 656D–F , 660E — 661D ) . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |
| 14 | New prosperity did not raise fertility to new heights . |