Example sentences of "not [verb] [pos pn] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 2 | Lord did not confine his ventures to cricket . |
| 3 | If I will not bring his bride to life , then he will rob my bride of her life . ’ |
| 4 | These ministers had mostly either left the west of Scotland because they could not reconcile their consciences to episcopacy when it was restored there , or had come to Ulster to evangelise and serve the Scots settlers . |
| 5 | These are people who instead of waiting passively to see what life will bring , have decided not to leave their happiness to chance . |
| 6 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |
| 7 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 8 | BSkyB can not split their transmissions to black out programmes in various parts of Britain , the same way as BBC or ITV . |
| 9 | Robert Spence 's Swordfish C-GEVS ( see the August issue ) had not gained its Permit to Fly on August 31 so was restricted to taxi-ing at Muirkirk , Ontario , during the Labour Day fly-in . |
| 10 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 11 | court should not shut its eyes to fact that statistically one in three marriages end in divorce . |
| 12 | YUGOSLAVS determined to oppose CROATS and will not allow their surrender to BRIT troops . |
| 13 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 14 | In a reference to the ANC 's suspension of the armed struggle in August , Mandela said that this was done to further the peace process but that the movement had nevertheless not forfeited its right to self-defence . |
| 15 | I have not changed my decision to disburden myself of the task . |
| 16 | He did not turn his head to right or left , but looked straight in front of him with wild determination . |