Example sentences of "not [vb infin] its [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imagine a straight structure which did not owe its straightness to this cause would require an assumption of a highly fortuitous combination of angles between sections . ’ |
| 2 | Despite the centralist tendencies of most non-Catalan Republicans and Socialists , the Republican-Socialist alliance could not escape its commitment to Catalan autonomy . |
| 3 | Christianity can not lose its reference to that history . |
| 4 | It was only on Aug. 21 that the CPSU had stated its opposition to the coup , when Ivashko demanded to see Gorbachev , because the party could not define its attitude to recent events without its leader . |
| 5 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |