Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that the conditions laid down for the registration of vessels must not form an obstacle to freedom of establishment within the meaning of articles 52 et seq . |
| 2 | If you are fond of flowers and gardens , you must not miss a visit to the gardens of Quinta do Palheiro . |
| 3 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , please , you must not say a word to anyone ! ’ |
| 5 | The precedents in this chapter ( with the exception of Precedents 9 and 10 which are not following a court order ) should not attract a charge to stamp duty as a result of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( see Chapter 2 generally as to stamp duty ) . |
| 6 | You should not miss a trip to the summit of the Zugspitze during your stay . |
| 7 | It should produce quick and clear decisions before each merger is completed and should not require a reference to more than one authority . |
| 8 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 9 | ( The precise scope of executive privilege was unclear : the only Supreme Court ruling on the doctrine — the 1974 decision against Nixon — found it to have a basis in the Constitution but adjudicated that it should not provide an impediment to criminal prosecution . ) |
| 10 | These problems can be resolved in several ways , however , and certainly should n't present a barrier to any user determined to get letter quality output from his word processing package . |
| 11 | They then work out reasonable answers which should n't allow a student to just eliminate the impossible ones . |
| 12 | A partner may not submit a dispute to arbitration on his or her own authority . |
| 13 | Individual dealings may not cause a Rule to be broken or activated unless or until they are aggregated . |
| 14 | This may not seem a problem to you this year , but remember that LIFESPAN handles all your material for up to thirty years — are you sure that your RD54 drive will still be serviceable in 2010 ? |
| 15 | This still might not provide an answer to the problem , if only because he might be deceived by others as well as by the stranger himself . |
| 16 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 17 | Lucien could not summon an objection to this observation . |
| 18 | An aquarium only became necessary when I could not put a name to even some of the commoner intertidal fish , in the short time that the tide was out . |
| 19 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 20 | But a boy could not become an apprentice to a bricklayer , or a tradesman . |
| 21 | He confirmed that Iraq had been effectively disarmed as a military power , and was left with an army largely composed of infantry which could not constitute a threat to neighbouring states in the immediate future . |
| 22 | This point is usually included in the police officer 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ The driver could not get a view to the front without first looking through the windscreen ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I could not get a flight to Croydon . |
| 24 | Even manager Lawrie McMenemy admitted : ‘ There were times when teams could n't hold a candle to England but that 's all changed now . |
| 25 | I was in Helen Blair 's house tonight … could n't do a thing to her , because her fuckin' wee brother ( about your age ) would not piss off . |
| 26 | It was as familiar almost as my own , but I could n't pin a face to it . |
| 27 | ‘ One could n't trust an animal to Weenie . ’ |
| 28 | He looked … well , she could n't put a name to how he looked . |
| 29 | There was a strange sort of hissing in the bracken to the west which I could n't put a name to . |
| 30 | God was something that you glimpsed in only your rarest moments , and could n't put a name to . |