Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the debate , a member who thinks that the original motion could be improved is at liberty to move an amendment , provided that he has not previously spoken to the motion . |
| 2 | Whichever way we look at these figures , whether we believe they represent a real increase in the rate of sexual violence or not , the decreasing conviction rate indicates that the state has not effectively responded to demands that sex crimes be treated more seriously . |
| 3 | We see that he has not simply yielded to the stronger of two pulls , as would be the case if , for example , he never overcame a fear of being uprooted which he judges cowardly , and ever after said to himself ‘ I ought to have gone ’ . |
| 4 | So far , many of the improvements they brought about have survived , and the fragmented bus industry has not yet led to a breakdown of the integrated ticketing that marked such a step forward in British practice . |
| 5 | The fact that this has not yet led to a fundamental delegitimisation of the state 's role has led some Marxists to develop a more sophisticated awareness of the divergent forces operating upon the growth of government . |
| 6 | That political will does not exist because public opinion has not yet begun to be aware of the scale of possible changes that governments will ask their publics to accept . |
| 7 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 8 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 9 | A guilt compounded by the suicide five years ago of his sister Angela ( nine years his senior ) , with which he admits he has not yet come to terms . |
| 10 | He has not yet come to a conclusion on that . |
| 11 | Despite the efforts of Rowlinson and his undoubtedly substantial contribution to the growth of the UK business over the last few years , Korn/Ferry has not yet adapted to the British corporate scene quite as successfully as Egon Zehnder or fellow members of the Big Four . |
| 12 | Besides , the temperature would continue to rise over the next few decades even if greenhouse gases stayed as they are , simply because the world is so slow to warm up , and has not yet responded to what is there already . |
| 13 | The Army Council faction has not yet responded to the demand . |
| 14 | On it we would have found the names of other distinguished old Summerhillians … unfortunately , Eric has been delayed at Stonehenge , and has not yet got to grips with the design . |
| 15 | And the saint has not yet spoken to us of Shrewsbury . ’ |
| 16 | The difference in both salinity and density of the salinity minimum west and east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge suggests that more recent , denser LSW has not yet spread to the east . |
| 17 | It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews . |
| 18 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |
| 20 | Since 1979 , however , their record has not always conformed to this declared objective . |
| 21 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 22 | A relative concept highlights not only costs to physical health . |
| 23 | He has n't properly spoken to me since our refusal to carry drugs . |
| 24 | What happened next was to so profoundly influence the way the typesetting market operated that it still has n't fully come to terms with the consequences . |
| 25 | what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any |
| 26 | I know he has n't really gone to the shops . |
| 27 | His preaching not only appealed to the mind , but also moved the heart . |
| 28 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 29 | If ignored , stress not only contributes to physical disorders such as heart disease , high blood pressure , ulcers and asthma , it can also lead to a variety of mental illnesses of which insomnia , depression and irritability are just early symptoms . |
| 30 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |