Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a follow up to its advice on what not to wear to an interview ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 21 ) , Robert Half recruitment consultants — obviously not snowed under with work at the moment — has joined forces with Accountemps to unveil some of the stranger CVs companies have received over the years . |
| 2 | This many be because the rat model was not exposed to an intiating factor or that 18 months was still not long enough to allow cancer to develop . |
| 3 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 4 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 5 | The IDA once again flew in another independent medical expert , Dr Muriel Newhouse of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who assured the planning inquiry that she would not object to an asbestos dump , such as the one proposed , being sited ‘ at the bottom of her garden ’ . |
| 6 | That question is not addressed to an association or a federation . |
| 7 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |
| 8 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 9 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 10 | The meaning is uncertain , but it can not refer to an offering to a demon , as some suggest , for this was strictly forbidden ( see , e.g. , 17:7 ) . |
| 11 | An SSR is used to reply to an SPR , but it can also be used simply as a means of disseminating information about one or more modules , in which case it need not refer to an SPR . |
| 12 | An SSR is used to reply to an SPR , but it can also be used simply as a means of disseminating information about one or more modules , in which case it need not refer to an SPR . |
| 13 | Because by definition it is not related to an existing settlement , it is not in the greenbelt , it must be in the countryside . |
| 14 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 15 | Obedience under legal authority is not owed to an individual personally but to the impersonal and abstract rules specifying the rights of office . |
| 16 | Pausanias describes Cimon 's Theseion as including a picture by Mikon of Theseus at the bottom of the sea ( the subject of fig. 98 ) , and pictures of a Centauromachy and an Amazonomachy which he does not ascribe to an artist . |
| 17 | However , if your circumstances change , and you can not keep to an arrangement , tell the fuel supplier , who should not cut you off without offering you another arrangement or a pre-payment meter . |
| 18 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 19 | But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year . |
| 20 | This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die . |
| 21 | This particular finding supports the finding , based on radiological studies , that the presence of backwash ileitis did not predispose to an increased incidence of pouchitis . |
| 22 | Even in Berlin the French legation was not raised to an embassy until 1862 ; and in the aftermath of the defeat of 1870 – 71 it was seriously proposed to save money by appointing only ministers and no ambassadors at all in future , though nothing came of this . |
| 23 | As the early church came to see that history was not coming to an immediate end , they also saw some permanent ministerial structure was needed . |
| 24 | It is coming to an end in May , it is not coming to an end in practice . |
| 25 | One disputed point is whether words alone can constitute an assault : the preponderance of authority is probably that mere words , unaccompanied by any threatening conduct , can not amount to an assault , but if the point of the offence is to penalize the creation of fear of imminent attack , it is difficult to see why utterances such as ‘ Get out the knives ’ or ‘ Let's hit them ’ should be regarded more indulgently than a raised hand . |
| 26 | An objection to liability in this case , advanced by Williams , is that the doctor who fails to treat has not done something ; he has merely failed to act , and an omission can not amount to an abetment . |
| 27 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 28 | Therefore , so far as the original shareholders were concerned , clause 3 of the shareholders ' agreement did not amount to an unlawful fetter on the company 's statutory power to increase its share capital ; it was simply a personal agreement outside the articles between the shareholders who executed it about how they would exercise their voting rights in relation to the creation or issue of shares , and did not purport to bind future shareholders . |
| 29 | The lower scores women might get because of such characteristics would not amount to an absolute condition or requirement which the women failed to meet [ for that , refusal would have to be automatic if , say , someone did not have a bank account ] . |
| 30 | Where bookings occur by an exchange of letters , the initial inquiry by the guest does not amount to an offer to contract , nor necessarily does the hotel 's reply to the guest stating the tariff and room availability . |