Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to prevent the display from scrolling , you must not write to the last column of the last row . |
| 2 | During a mass in Cape Verde on Jan. 25 , he said that the developments in Eastern Europe should not lead to the international community forgetting the plight of the Third World , while in Mali on Jan. 28 he appealed for harmony between the Christian and Moslem religions . |
| 3 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 4 | Seekers after Alpine charm may or may not be content with the neo-Tyrolean style of Vail ; they may or may not adapt to the Wild West clapboard houses of resuscitated mining towns such as Breckenridge . |
| 5 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 6 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 7 | Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’ |
| 8 | The mere suggestion that these might not apply to the specific situation in which you find yourself , is to incur the curling lip ( or snide tone if over the telephone ) and the trenchant reiteration of the particular rule . |
| 9 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 10 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 11 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 12 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 13 | Before the advent of machinery , English hand workers could not spin to the requisite fineness to rival Asian calicos . |
| 14 | A tradition that was based only on communication could not lead to the compulsive character that attaches to religious phenomena . |
| 15 | The Governors declared their willingness to be flexible and co-operative with the Government 's ideas , but pointed out that , while the School was probably already comprehensive as regarded area and by virtue of its covering a fair cross-section of the population , it could not contribute to the particular concept ( by accepting the full range of abilities ) without destroying itself . |
| 16 | That article 34 could not apply to the three hauliers on the simple reasoning that each carrier had a separate consignment note and article 34 only applied to cases where successive carriers operated under a single consignment note . |
| 17 | Most empiricists , for example , have been prepared to do this with secondary qualities , such as colours , sounds and smells , which , they believe , science could not allow to the external world . |
| 18 | Britain , and especially London , had become ‘ a cross-roads on the international data highway ’ ; yet if Britain could not subscribe to the European Convention those who were subscribers could discriminate against Britain and refuse to handle data flows in either direction because there was no protective data legislation . |
| 19 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
| 20 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 21 | And he volunteered to give a lift to anyone who could n't get to the annual general meeting in March . |
| 22 | I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right |
| 23 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 24 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 25 | This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared . |
| 26 | It was therefore held by the Court that the fact that all the Member States had signed the Customs Cooperation Council Valuation Convention would not lead to the necessary extent to the uniform determination of the value for customs purposes of imported goods required for the functioning of customs union . |
| 27 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 28 | In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General . |
| 29 | sole practitioners would not object to the proposed extra accounting measures if they were aimed at all firms ; |
| 30 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |