Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] to the [det] " in BNC.

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1 A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand .
2 But he conceded that rising gas prices , while the cost of coal was falling , could mean further developments of gas-fired stations may not be justified to the same extent in future .
3 For instance , there is no spectrum connecting the two senses of expire , so their lexical units would not be assigned to the same lexeme .
4 Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases .
5 This occurred , he believed , despite the household 's ‘ sufficiency of income ’ and therefore could not be attributed to the same causes as ‘ primary poverty ’ .
6 When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount .
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