Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] not [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such phrases do not do justice to its many insights — to which I will return in Chapter 8 — there are nevertheless some serious weaknesses in the approach . |
| 2 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 3 | Now that sheep-stealing , forming trade unions and various other minor offences do not merit transportation to the colonies , a similar pardon may be granted to those who had been deemed worthy of such punishment in a different age . |
| 4 | In effect , large objects moving at hypersonic velocities do not have time to ‘ see ’ the atmosphere before cratering the surface . |
| 5 | Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals . |
| 6 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |
| 7 | ‘ Doctors do n't have time to be beautiful , ’ Charity informed her ruefully . |
| 8 | However , it is generally true that mainstream teachers do not have access to specialist knowledge beyond very generic special needs training . |
| 9 | Although prison rules do not allow inmates to be paid for broadcasts they are allowed to make personal telephone calls . |
| 10 | If pupils do not have access to Standard English then many important opportunities are closed to them , in cultural activities , in further and higher education , and in industry , commerce and the professions . |
| 11 | The media are also required , when reporting matters which are relevant to imminent legal proceedings , to ensure that their reports do not give rise to any substantial risk of prejudice . |
| 12 | The present ski development is unsafe for walkers to walk through towards the carriers as the skiers do not give way to each other let alone walkers . |
| 13 | However , the statistics seriously underestimate the incidence of rape , since the majority of women do not report cases to the police , considering that they have faced quite enough distress without taking such a case through the courts . |
| 14 | Bureaus do not sell services to citizens or raise taxes directly . |
| 15 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 16 | ‘ You know , if you read the collected letters of any writer — if you read her biography — you will always get a sense that there 's something missing , something biographers do n't have access to , the real thing , the crucial thing , the thing that really mattered to the poet herself . |