Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoys the security of a group ; like the fat boy in the school photograph , he does not want to push his way to the front . |
| 2 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 3 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 4 | But she would not speak when the guard was near ; she did not want to betray her knowledge to the strangers . |
| 5 | She did not need to speak her pain to any but her God . |
| 6 | His solicitor , Cameron Fyfe , said : ‘ The court recognises that Mr McTear will not survive to see his case to its completion , as this process could take several years . |
| 7 | But Fael-Inis only said , ‘ We have certainly saved his body from the Conablaiche , for the Lad will not dare to break his promise to me . ’ |
| 8 | Maurice Cowling has suggested that Law 's resignation was tactical , that he could not face reconciling his party to the coming Irish negotiations , and that he was giving up office so as to be available as an alternative to coalition in the future ; in Gaullist terms he was becoming a Prime Minister " in the reserve of the republic " . |
| 9 | Tories who feel rebellious about the railways , may not have to push their protest to the point of voting against the government . |
| 10 | It would certainly not have given him access to the kind of personalized data about effective relationships which her oral history interviews unearthed . |
| 11 | Members do not have to renounce their allegiance to other religions : they must simply pledge themselves to further the aims of the goddess , which could be summarised broadly as feminist , ecological and back-to-the-earth . |
| 12 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 13 | His behaviour must match what he says for us to say he has mastered the correct us of the terms he uses , but he does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate . ’ |
| 14 | Now , if we think along these lines then we will be sorely tempted to say that although the child does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ , there is something else he must observe , something inner and private , a ‘ feeling ’ he has somehow identified as a liking-Auntie-Kate feeling . |
| 15 | They were not the cream or they would not have found their way to this worthless place . |
| 16 | Some might not have found their way to prison at all . |
| 17 | In calling these examples ‘ routine ’ , I do not mean to deny their importance to the receiver , nor that they may be very demanding for the giver . |
| 18 | In the new Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) Ukraine has become a foreign country , and it does not intend giving its paper to anyone . |
| 19 | It is clear , however , that political historians can not afford to confine their attention to the goings-on at Westminster or St James 's , and that the history of party under the later Stuarts is as much about the divisions that emerged in society at large as it is about what happened in Parliament or at the royal Court . |
| 20 | But when , as I fear , you have lost your innocence and added another to the number of fools he has ruined , I can not help showing my displeasure to you . |