Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 2 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 3 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 4 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 5 | The street system did not accord to a grid pattern . |
| 6 | Any liquid would gather in the ditch and there would be plenty of time to take preventive action , since it did not discharge to a stream for some distance . |
| 7 | Such generosity did not extend to a paper tie and crown that Picasso had made for Richardson ( also for Cooper ) on some gala occasion . |
| 8 | The Arab predilection for drama , at least in personal relationships , did not extend to a taste for Shakespeare 's comedies translated into Arabic , and the house was less than half full . |
| 9 | Lord Macnaghten in Pemsel did not aspire to a definition , but only to a classification of the then existing case law . |
| 10 | The strict out-door relief policy of the 1870s did not lead to a fall in total Poor Law expenditure . |
| 11 | Six subjects did not consent to a glucose tolerance test and tolerance was determined from fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentrations . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal considered that the information did not amount to a trade secret . |
| 13 | Trover became a complete alternative to replevin despite the fact that it could be argued that , the goods being regarded as in the custody of the law , the distraint did not amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 14 | Without this provision it was possible to have a share-for-debenture exchange which fell within s127 TCGA 1992 and did not amount to a disposal even though the debenture was an exempt simple debt , rather than a security . |
| 15 | His allowing the customer to have possession of the car did not amount to a representation that the customer had the right to sell it . |
| 16 | It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier . |
| 17 | ( e ) The suicide did not amount to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 18 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 19 | For the reasons I have given , I conclude that if ( but only if ) Lautro did not afford to a person or firm served with an intervention notice in accordance with rule 7.3(12) the opportunity to apply to the board to rescind the notice , and/or to appeal against it , then the lack of such remedies would be unfair and the procedure unlawful . |
| 20 | It was held that the clause did not apply to a delay where the port was not inaccessible but the master deemed the port unsafe due to ice ( Tillmanns & Co v SS Knutford Ltd [ 1908 ] 2 KB 385 ) . |
| 21 | After dismissing an argument that the doctrine as to release did not apply to a judgment debt , Collins L.J . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal held that the clause did not apply to a fire caused by negligence , even though the garage could not be liable for fire damage without negligence . |
| 23 | 368 did not apply to a tenancy from year to year and said [ 1971 ] Ch. 725 , 733 : |
| 24 | he , he did not agree to a meeting |
| 25 | Then I realized that the house did not belong to a human , but to the horse who had brought me here . |
| 26 | But Cavalli did not work to a formula . |
| 27 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 28 | Cecil matriculated at Trinity College , Oxford , on 16 July 1621 but did not proceed to a degree . |
| 29 | The court , however , did not permit to a corporation , simply because it has legal personality , all the rights of a natural person to sue for defamation . |
| 30 | About one in three claims which do not go to a hearing are dropped by applicants . |