Example sentences of "not [verb] a [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 2 | That would not present a problem to England 's selectors , since the 16-strong party picked for India already includes one-day specialists Graeme Hick , John Emburey and Neil Fairbrother with eight limited-overs games due to be played on the sub-continent . |
| 3 | Kelly , however , ventured the opinion that asking the manager for a statement on where the club were headed did not constitute a threat to Brady 's position . |
| 4 | Wealth does not restore a person to God . |
| 5 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 6 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 7 | ‘ I could not get a flight to Croydon . |
| 8 | If you 've the time , why not combine a visit to Australia with an exotic Far East stopover such as Thailand , Singapore , Malaysia and Bali ? |
| 9 | But , of course , Nora can not waste a visit to York , and as Mr. Hudson is in the city … ’ |
| 10 | Do not reply a letter to Lewis until I contact you because I could not be here . |
| 11 | She 's to be Australia 's representative at next summer 's Venice Biennial , but if you 're not planning a trip to Italy , just go down to Prince St where Anina Nosei is showing recent examples of her work from 4 to 31 December . |
| 12 | I was not planning a trip to Alice Springs , I pointed out . |