Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 2 | This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing . |
| 3 | It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating . |
| 4 | In the March 1989 issue of Digest , Seitz posed the question , ‘ Is Greg Norman Overrated ? ’ replaced Jeff Sluman 's name with the like of Alf Padgham ( which I 'm sure was not intended as an insult to the Padgham family ) and concluded that Norman was , indeed , overrated — ‘ for now ’ . |
| 5 | They are not examined with a view to appraisal which might require adjustments to concepts of syllabus design to accommodate them . |
| 6 | Gardner-Medwin proposed screening 18 month old boys who are not walking as an approach to the problem of delayed diagnosis . |
| 7 | On the one hand for environmental reasons , for their environmental reasons I should say , and on the other hand so as not to come as a nuisance to residents of existing communities . |
| 8 | But this school was not considered by the authorities to be a suitable place of safety . |
| 9 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 10 | This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 12 | erm But in terms of public order crimes , it may well be that this sort of view does not act as a preventative to erm prevent the same thing happening again . |
| 13 | This sentence certainly will not act as a deterrent to other drunk drivers . |
| 14 | The government 's economic policy , including severe cutbacks in the welfare state and extensive deregulation [ see below ] , exacerbated existing divisions within the National Party which had been concealed but not resolved in the run-up to the election . |
| 15 | Paige did as she was told , not looking at the distance to the ground . |
| 16 | So I 'm not looking for a response to what he says at this stage . |
| 17 | We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five . |
| 18 | The meaning is uncertain , but it can not refer to an offering to a demon , as some suggest , for this was strictly forbidden ( see , e.g. , 17:7 ) . |
| 19 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 21 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 22 | However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner . |
| 23 | Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians . |
| 24 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |
| 25 | Lung cancer was not seen as a sequel to smoking until the middle of the twentieth . |
| 26 | Porto Santo is not connected under the sea to Madeira but it is of a similar age — Miocene . |
| 27 | We were not convinced by the arguments to the contrary . |
| 28 | The proposal , from Notre Dame College , a Catholic college in Glasgow , was received sympathetically , but was not approved at a visit to the College in December . |
| 29 | Rieber 's view that the purpose of the emancipation was to fill the state 's coffers with the peasants ' redemption payments does not square with the background to the reform 's financial arrangements . |
| 30 | The extent to which women thought that they were informed , however , was not reflected in the answers to a question about which disorders this blood sample was tested for ( table ) . |