Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the SARU do not want to make the same mistake , they could organise a tour of South Africa by their proposed national team to prepare for the visits of New Zealand and Australia in August . |
2 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |
3 | Equally , do not expect to find the same fineness of knotting in a nomadic item as in a rug of workshop origin , although some nomadic rugs are surprisingly finely knotted and consistent in their designs . |
4 | Housewives simply do not expect to work the same hours in the home as they would in an office or factory . |
5 | Tone generators and loudspeakers , however , have to cope with a multitude of frequencies and can not hope to move the same amount of air as the equivalent number of pipes . |
6 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
7 | By removing any temporal limitation on his own mandate , Franco showed that he did not intend to suffer the same fate as Primo . |
8 | And they did not seem to feel the same need to compete that men did , the urge to scatter names , achievements , possessions about , like so much status-defining dandruff . |
9 | While the construction of arenas bounds on — an enormous amount has been accomplished in the past month — the organisation side does not seem to show the same urgency . |
10 | Violence again propelled Northern Ireland into the national news headlines , but it did not seem to make the same impact at Stormont Castle , RUC headquarters at Brooklyn or Army headquarters in Lisburn . |
11 | Surely , such practices should be condemned , especially as many companies , such as EMI , do not seem to have the same problem . |
12 | But I have been quite fascinated to see that the youngsters today do not seem to have the same interest in reading the paper . |