Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |
| 2 | Coun Arthur Taylor said there was no planning opposition so they should not give in to the vandals by refusing the application . |
| 3 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 4 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 5 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 6 | Consequently , your program will not abort back to the command mode if a bad number is input . |
| 7 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 8 | She did not hurry back to the house . |
| 9 | Led by Pavel Kohout , Vaclav Havel and other Czechs and Slovaks who would not buckle under to the regime imposed on Czechoslovakia by Brezhnev 's tanks in 1968 , the first permanent group of dissidents in Eastern Europe issued their statement of inalienable human rights at the start of the year — Charter 77 . |
| 10 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He will not face up to the problem . |
| 13 | It does not face up to the punishment question because it implicitly suggests that they are not culpable if their criminal aetiology can be ‘ understood ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Ordinary Catholics on the Falls Road can not stand up to the IRA . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 18 | On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor . |
| 19 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 20 | He promised himself he would not go up to the tower to observe the stars . |
| 21 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 22 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 23 | But she did not go back to the kitchen . |
| 24 | The question of taking pension holidays in between out of surplus is a sort of mid midway position , but er very definitely we feel strongly that money should not go back to the company . |
| 25 | For many weeks Kee did not go back to the graveyard . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After all , the money ‘ saved ’ would not go back to the LTA but would have been used to swell the amount available to be paid in appearance money to the two or three ‘ names ’ needed to start the telephones ringing in the box office . |
| 28 | In the evenings , if the Eliots did not go out to the cinema or theatre together , they would often listen to the gramophone — he had an especial affection for the music of Bartok , although sometimes he would play the songs of Edward Lear . |
| 29 | Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity . |
| 30 | Clearly the airlines ' authorized capacity does not match up to the company market shares as shown in either Table 11.2 or Table 11.3 . |