Example sentences of "not [verb] a [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not make a visit to the International Motor Show , the British International Antiques Fair , or any of the numerous public exhibitions covering everything from photography to holidays and travel , and classic cars to boats and caravans . |
| 2 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |
| 3 | Nicholson himself has clearly not considered a return to the saddle , remarking : ‘ There is not enough brandy in France to get me up again . ’ |
| 4 | If , for instance , you will not enjoy a visit to the opera , then you may prefer the next month 's barn dance . |
| 5 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 6 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 7 | Although Kemira is not completely home and dry , the EC will find it virtually impossible not to find a solution to the problems it has recognised . |
| 8 | Johnny Mars Blues Band Unrepentant Smiths fans need not beat a path to the door , this is nothing to do with Johnny Marr . |
| 9 | Chamber of Trade chairman , Dick King , told the Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting : ‘ I believe it is basically wrong for membership subscriptions to finance what is in effect a benefit provided for the town , and enjoyed by many other businesses who do not contribute a penny to the upkeep . |
| 10 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 11 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 12 | Why not send a deputation to the department who have all the facts ? ’ |
| 13 | However such farmers were necessarily exceptions within a farming community where shortening bush/fallow cycles were retained ; they did not provide a solution to the underlying problem . |
| 14 | Regulation is an indication that competition policy can not provide a solution to the monopolistic behaviour of these sectors . |
| 15 | What is clear under both Article 35 and 36 is that the third party remains just that : it does not become a party to the entire treaty . |
| 16 | It 's complete now , so why not plan a trip to the Fort Region Leisure Centre in Jersey this year ? |
| 17 | ( We do not attribute a degree to the zero polynomial f = 0 ) . |
| 18 | You should not miss a trip to the summit of the Zugspitze during your stay . |
| 19 | If you are fond of flowers and gardens , you must not miss a visit to the gardens of Quinta do Palheiro . |
| 20 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 21 | The porters do not have a key to the cupboard . |
| 22 | Tolerance does not blind a man to the imperfections or faults of a religion , nor does it blur the distinction between religion and irreligion , but it does deliver a man from fanaticism with regard to his own faith . |
| 23 | As we have seen , tolerance , as Gandhi understand ; it , does not blind a man to the faults of a religion including his own . |
| 24 | By not uttering a word to the audience , then keeping the stage shrouded in smoke , lit only from the back in lurid purple , orange and red , and reducing the band to shadowy figures looming out of a fog , he put so much distance between them and anybody past the regulation front-of-stage pogoers that attention easily wandered . |
| 25 | If you 're at a loss with what to do with your hair and make-up on your wedding day , why not pay a visit to the 10th Afro Hair and Beauty Exhibition at The Business Design Centre in London ? |
| 26 | IF you still have some Christmas presents to buy , why not pay a visit to the shop at your local Historic Scotland monument and take advantage of the 10 per cent discount available to Friends ? |
| 27 | But he said the machine did not mean a return to the days of the mid-1980s when his company made huge profits from new computer equipment . |
| 28 | The Labour party can not hold a candle to the Government 's record in terms of helping elderly people with the costs of heating . |
| 29 | They do not hold a light to the more flamboyant and colourful dendrodorids but are nevertheless beautiful in a grotesque sort of way . |
| 30 | The appropriate minister retains complete discretion whether or not to refer a merger to the Commission , and whether or not to accept any recommendation . |