Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the judgment , Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said : ‘ We did not want to cause additional stress to Mr Hale but the evidence we had would not have supported a settlement of the size of the eventual award . ’ |
| 2 | He had not intended to cause serious injury to Mr Redmond . |
| 3 | Interviewers will make up their own list depending on the job and will not doubt give more weight to some items . |
| 4 | It is not recommended to add more oil to your pigment , as keeping your paint dry and simple will yield better results . |
| 5 | It is not recommended to add more oil to your pigment , as keeping your paint dry and simple will yield better results . |
| 6 | This would lead to confusion and complication ; ( 2 ) It may imperil certain aspects of the regulatory system , for instance by concluding that Chinese walls are ineffective to prevent the attribution of information , or because advance disclosure that would satisfy fiduciary requirements is impossible , a broker/dealer is always liable when buying or selling as principal ; ( 3 ) It does not appear to give any recognition to the expertise of the bodies to which Parliament has entrusted the regulation of financial services . |
| 7 | The new contracts may improve accounting procedures , but do not appear to offer more choice to either doctors or consumers , who will be bound by contractual arrangements , which the government recommends should be on a three-year rolling basis . |
| 8 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
| 9 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 10 | Because management use the technology to exercise tight control over workers , managers have not needed to pay much attention to issues of job satisfaction and motivation because only when workers have autonomy does their level of motivation become a relevant consideration . |
| 11 | But in most situations , when you 'd be asking a colleague on the same staff to work with you , you 'll need to find a way of working that is not going to cause massive disruption to the school timetable , that 's not going to demand that the headteacher come and cover one of your classes while you 're busy with your investigation into the disappearance of the crew of the Marie Celeste . |
| 12 | And although you know , to all intents and purposes , those appointments are inviolate , I know that they 're in pink on the slide , but they are inviolate in terms of I 'm not going to cede that time to anyone else . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean we 're not going to drive straight back to Olbia ? |
| 14 | She was already feeling a bit better and she felt quite amused at this cool domination , especially as she was not going to pay any attention to it . |
| 15 | It was past midnight , so this was the start of Sunday , and Sundays in Taiwan were not going to bear much resemblance to Sundays in the countries she had known so far . |
| 16 | I mean it 's just like it 's You know , obviously you 're not going to stick each other to the |
| 17 | I can go to all the dinners and banquets on earth , but it 's not going to make any difference to the world . |
| 18 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 19 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 20 | You do not have to draw each axis to the zero point , but you must label each axis clearly to show what you have done . |
| 21 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 22 | The salvage company which had raised 28,000 pieces said : ‘ We will not have to take any back to Vietnam . ’ |
| 23 | I admit I might not have paid much attention to an anonymous delivery girl , but they do n't normally bolt when they see me , which attracted my attention . |
| 24 | " Collector Sahib , though I do not forgive bad treatment from Sircar and from British Collector Sahib , I do not wish to cause personal grievance to my good friend , Mr Hopkin . |
| 25 | So we 're looking for a for a separate policy in the industry employment section of the structure plan , we do not wish to see any amendment to part of E two or for that matter to Policy I five , both of which we we fully support . |
| 26 | She did not intend to disclose such information to Suzie ; defence by denial was a strategy she already operated well . |
| 27 | He should be content instead with outlining the motive principle and not try to predicate any content to it . |
| 28 | In an effort to cut down on unnecessary distribution of papers , I do not propose to circulate this list to all members . |
| 29 | But this does not seem to make much difference to the behaviour . ) |
| 30 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |