Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantity given will stuff a 5kg/10lb turkey fore and aft , as you do not want to cram the bird to bursting . |
| 2 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 3 | A new constitution could not promise to bring an end to all these problems but it was at least hoped to correct some of the flaws in the Weimar constitution , which had been marked by unstable governments , numerous political parties , an over-powerful Presidency and inadequate constitutional guarantees . |
| 4 | But the statutory formula does not seek to value the benefit to the employee as such , but requires the quantum of the benefit to be fixed by reference to the cost to the employer in providing it . |
| 5 | I suspect that the confidentiality is largely that of the Secretary of State , and am confident that in acceptance of our decision he will not seek to maintain a claim to such confidentiality . |
| 6 | Where the plaintiff 's damage is the result of more than one cause , the but for test does not appear to provide an answer to causation problems . |
| 7 | We only have evidence for one species , but most ethologists who study sex do not hesitate to extend the theory to all bizarre sexual characters . |
| 8 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 9 | I … that is I , my wife and my children … we , I , do not like to invite a friend to a party and not give him the best . |
| 10 | The decision is justified on the grounds that there was no guarantee that the plaintiff would receive any of the fine and that Parliament could not have intended a workman to be deprived of the chance to seek compensation for his injuries . |
| 11 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 12 | She was sure that he could not have survived the shot to his heart . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it has been shown in several of these cell lines that this TGF α does not have to leave the cell to actively bind to transmembrane fragments of the EGF receptor and stimulate the cell . |
| 14 | You should not have to return the watch to the manufacturers . |
| 15 | If we take the optimistic view , we could suggest that any group of wage-earners who managed to secure a wage increase of 60 per cent can not have ended the period to any real degree worse off than they began it . |
| 16 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 17 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 18 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 19 | Hodge hoped that the Joint Commission would resume its work and he did not wish to convey the impression to Koreans that it was American policy to prevent unification . |
| 20 | God did not give the job , he could not , and he did not try to give the job to anybody else ! |
| 21 | Then you notice that there are cobbles in the yard , there is lichen on the golden hamstone dressings , the iron railings keeping the cows from the garden are refined and elegant , and the carved and hooded doorway does not seem to herald the entrance to an ordinary farmhouse . |
| 22 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 23 | Anyway , there she was in her own room , and no call if she did n't want to open the door to anyone , not even her husband . ’ |
| 24 | You do n't need to become a slave to Filofax — but you probably do need a college diary or alphabetical address book with space for telephone numbers , etc . |
| 25 | But if you do n't mind cutting the yarn to length and creating your own design , you can order the raw materials by post from the Wilton Royal carpet factory ( 0722–744268 ) — a similar size rug costs approximately £46 . |
| 26 | I do n't like to recommend a product to someone with sensitive skin , but would suggest that before you apply any hair product to your hair , you try a simple skin test first . |
| 27 | I also think that there is n't a woman alive who would n't like to have a companion to be there with a cup of tea when she 's in bed with the flu and a high temperature , or holding her hand at the surgery when she 's awaiting the result of a test . |
| 28 | Leading and promoting the debate on energy policy that the government wants to stifle , that presents us with just such an opportunity , if we do n't begin to take the fight to the enemy the future is clear . |
| 29 | I mean I do n't think it was a gas leak , it would n't have caused an explosion to the extent of that . |
| 30 | ‘ My father would n't have given a lift to anyone . |