Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [det] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very conscious that in my presence there it could n't be avoided , though , of course , the Methodist Church does not make any claims to priesthood for its ministry . |
| 2 | Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson . |
| 3 | Similarly , it is generally agreed that the discourse-deictic words like moreover , besides , anyway , well , etc. , in utterance-initial position , do not make any difference to truth conditions ( Grice , 1961 , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ) . |
| 4 | Adopters , however , do not make this transition to parenthood : they do not know when the child is expected , find it too distressing to attend standard parentcraft classes with pregnant women and may lack basic childcare knowledge . |
| 5 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 6 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 7 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 8 | Thus , in general , most " matrimonial conveyances " should not incur any liability to stamp duty whatever the value of the property conveyed or transferred . |
| 9 | It is clear therefore that a sale of the former matrimonial home within 36 months of the husband leaving it , or a transfer of his interest in it to the wife within that period , will not incur any charge to capital gains tax . |
| 10 | But its political interests would have been — and were — better served by a lower growth-rate ; for this was less damaging to non-monopoly capital and the working class , and therefore did not provoke such hostility to monopoly capital . |
| 11 | One can not accredit those problems to immigration . |
| 12 | Why not leave such changes to market forces ? |
| 13 | Modern single-stack drainage systems allow them to mix above ground , though there are stringent design requirements to ensure that the drains do not pose any risk to health . |
| 14 | The study stresses that the levels of caesium observed do not pose any risk to health . |
| 15 | The psychiatrist 's theory was that I simply had to come to realise that becoming a ‘ complete man ’ ( which presumably included being heterosexual ) would not involve any risk to life or , more importantly , limb , that I was a ‘ complete man ’ . |
| 16 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
| 17 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 18 | ‘ In that case , ’ Lacuna said , ‘ you ca n't have any objection to Pool looking inside it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I-I- do n't pay much attention to politics , I 'm afraid , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Do n't do n't put this man to death ! |