Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb infin] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sound also casts sonic shadows , though other than noticing that shutting the door can reduce the sound , we do not pay much heed to it . |
| 2 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 3 | They do not pay enough attention to the development of the company . |
| 4 | The problems arise when we do not pay conscious attention to those sights which are important and which we would do well to notice . |
| 5 | I do not intend this list to be exhaustive . |
| 6 | I do not intend these figures to be taken as strictly accurate estimates , clearly they ca n't be . |
| 7 | As there is no Embassy of Taiwan in the UK , please do not copy any appeals to another embassy , as proposed on the letter writing page . |
| 8 | We dybbuks have our ethics ; we do not do these things to one another . |
| 9 | Studies which show apparent equality in decision-making between husbands and wives often omit or do not give due weight to many of the more important decisions such as where to live , when to move or when to buy a new car ( Gillespie , 1972 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ What I meant to say is , I do not feel any animosity to you , signorina . ’ |
| 11 | From an economic point of view , the private benefits to the successful innovator are likely to exceed social benefits even if the latter are positive because many innovations , particularly on the product development as opposed to the process/new technology side , do not offer strong benefits to investors aside from existing instruments . |
| 12 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 13 | Most people do not want such offences to be tolerated . |
| 14 | We do not want this work to be carried out by outside contractors . |
| 15 | Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions . |
| 16 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 17 | Similarly , it is generally agreed that the discourse-deictic words like moreover , besides , anyway , well , etc. , in utterance-initial position , do not make any difference to truth conditions ( Grice , 1961 , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Adopters , however , do not make this transition to parenthood : they do not know when the child is expected , find it too distressing to attend standard parentcraft classes with pregnant women and may lack basic childcare knowledge . |
| 19 | Those who are new to childminding can take a while to become established , however , so do not assume several vacancies to be a reflection on the childminder herself . |
| 20 | Ordinary shares do not carry fixed returns to investors and do not have to be redeemed . |
| 21 | In recent years the situation has become confused , because there are now exterior wood stains available , which differ from a true dye or stain , as they leave a coloured film on the surface of the wood and do not require another finish to be applied over them . |
| 22 | Russian and German make similar gender distinctions in the third-person singular pronouns and , like English , do not apply these distinctions to the third-person plural . |
| 23 | Even warranties and indemnities do not provide complete protection to the offeror , as they depend on the financial resources of the people providing them . |
| 24 | The index is good but the references do not provide easy access to the research literature . |
| 25 | The older cases , and some of — the modern ones , too , do not afford any countenance to that distinction … |
| 26 | It is also important that we do not allow many farms to be excluded on the ground of their size . |
| 27 | The parasite is common in most countries although outbreaks of disease do not often occur , probably due to the fact that most systems of pig husbandry do not allow ready access to earthworms by pigs . |
| 28 | Although British employers do not use medical screening to the same extent , disability discrimination law must regulate such screening in application forms , medical questionnaires and examinations , and interview questions . |
| 29 | But associative feminist initiatives also achieve some highly cautious , undramatic discursive shifts , which do not reduce social relations to side-effects of individual subjectivities . |
| 30 | The reason vitamin D was regarded as a vitamin is because it is found in our food , and this is important for those who do not receive adequate exposure to sunlight — for example , the house-bound elderly . |