Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many types of reading test currently used in primary schools ; most of them , however , are norm-referenced rather than criterion-referenced , and so do not relate directly to the levels of attainment described above . |
| 2 | It did not refer specifically to the grounds upon which the nullity of a public limited company might be ordered . |
| 3 | Coun Arthur Taylor said there was no planning opposition so they should not give in to the vandals by refusing the application . |
| 4 | Most of them were noticeably short even on usual offices , and it did not occur even to the agents to describe them as imposing or delightful . |
| 5 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 7 | Is there any reason why that should not apply equally to the words ‘ has carried on business ? ’ |
| 8 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 9 | It does not apply therefore to the solutions of Khan and Penrose ( 1971 ) , Ferrari and Ibañez ( 1987 b ) , and the exceptional solution of Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1986 b ) . |
| 10 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 11 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 12 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 13 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 14 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 15 | In other words , I feel guilty because I can not live up to the expectations placed upon me by society or individuals . |
| 16 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
| 17 | At present microdialysis is only justifiable when there are compelling reasons for neurosurgical intervention and when the inclusion of the microdialysis probe does not add appreciably to the risks . |
| 18 | Probably even by that time the whole policy was out of date ; but it did not seem so to the monks of Canterbury , nor to Anselm himself . |
| 19 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 20 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 21 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 22 | By that I mean those of us who do n't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture , and refuse to be ; for example , such like myself who are n't rapacious materialists , fashion victims , empty-headed bimbos , domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour . |
| 23 | After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more . |
| 24 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 25 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't go back to the horses again ? ’ |
| 27 | You ca n't go down to the shops , you ca n't go round your mum 's , you ca n't go to your auntie 's , you 're losing your freedom . |
| 28 | Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money . |
| 29 | She said if he ca n't come out to the children And he has good as told her that he had n't got much time for children , visiting children . |
| 30 | DO N'T LOSE OUT TO THE BURGLARS |