Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludo has not gone to bed . |
| 2 | If it has not turned to yoghurt , then the original yoghurt was not live . |
| 3 | ‘ In the past , TUPE has not applied to MoD contracts , but now , following various European legal decisions , it is highly likely that in future it will . |
| 4 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 6 | He damaged a shoulder in a club match on Saturday week , and the injury has not responded to treatment . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , lad , do endeavour not to succumb to melodramatics . ’ |
| 8 | When the use of the term ‘ reading readiness ’ in education is examined , it will be seen not to refer to readiness to read , nor even to readiness to learn to read , but to quite a different state of affairs , namely readiness to cope with reading instruction . |
| 9 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
| 10 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 11 | She decided not to go to communion . |
| 12 | The close agreement between the teams ' assessment diagnoses and those made by formal psychiatric review is reassuring , in that the multidisciplinary approach to initial assessment seems not to lead to misdiagnosis of patients . |
| 13 | The PCCh and the MIR on Jan. 27 , 1990 , undertook not to resort to violence during the term of office of the Aylwin administration . |
| 14 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 15 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 16 | His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school … |
| 17 | The men disappeared behind a distant quayside shed , but she dared not trust to luck and hid behind a winch . |
| 18 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |
| 19 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 20 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 21 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 22 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 23 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 24 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 25 | The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories . |
| 26 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 27 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 28 | She did not go to bed . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
| 30 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |