Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ My father would n't have given a lift to anyone . |
| 14 | She would be with us always , and I would n't have to say a word to her grandchildren because she would say them all . |
| 15 | ‘ But that would n't have meant a thing to Elise , would it ? |