Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 2 | Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so . |
| 3 | As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea . |
| 4 | We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . " |
| 5 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 6 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
| 7 | I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he |
| 8 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 9 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 10 | ‘ While we welcome their joyriding legislation it does n't even go back to the situation we had previously . |
| 11 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
| 12 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 13 | The action does n't quite live up to the presentation : it 's simple overhead-view stuff with no frills , but fun nonetheless . |
| 14 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating and while I found that McAfee VirusScan did n't quite live up to the advertisers ‘ claims , it was able to spot over 84 per cent of the infected files in my library . |
| 15 | I mean , if somebody ca n't actually go back to the person they 've harmed in a in a one to one situation , there 's no reason why they should n't be doing some other form of community service . |
| 16 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |