Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement .
2 People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age .
3 I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him .
4 A general term can not give rise to zeugma in this way :
5 It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it .
6 Most of this legislation is of a ‘ regulatory ’ nature and does not give rise to liability in damages .
7 The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions .
8 I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on .
9 Unlike the annual Environment White Papers , a sustainable development report need not give space to quality of life issues where there are no long term implications , such as local issues of litter , the nuisance from dogs , noise , etc .
10 He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ .
11 And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ?
12 The portly Breton was standing in the town in yesterday 's parliamentary elections but it would appear that he does not see eye to eye with local activists .
13 Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love .
14 We did not assess travel to work in detail .
15 You have n't slept head to toe in a bed with him though .
16 But then those two do n't see eye to eye about anything these days .
17 ‘ I had the impression that you did n't see eye to eye on how the club should be run . ’
18 I do n't see eye to eye with Tod on all issues .
19 ‘ You ca n't pretend he 's normal and it 's no secret that he did n't see eye to eye with Alain . ’
20 They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him .
21 Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’
22 A lot of people do n't come face to face with me here
23 He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again .
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