Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think people should try and help women , not just send them to prison . |
| 2 | We began by talking politics , which he enjoyed doing with someone not out to convert him to socialism — then , as now , the established faith of most intellectuals — and , referring to A. L. Rowse 's fervent attempts , the first of many , to persuade him to join the Labour Party , he flung wide his arms and said : ‘ I refuse to be tied down to allegiances of this kind . ’ |
| 3 | It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser . |
| 4 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 5 | Gedge had still not fully applied himself to music and was quite happy to play board games with Solowka rather than the laborious task of writing songs . |
| 6 | Although Marx and Engels did not systematically apply themselves to crime and its treatment , they too showed some ambivalence in their attitudes to the status of crime under capitalism . |