Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , it has not gone to extremes . |
| 2 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 3 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 4 | But his fiancee may think that all time not allocated to necessities such as work should be spent together . |
| 5 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 6 | No one in the Sudanese government had been willing to meet her , she said , and the Sudanese government had not responded to approaches made by the UK ambassador to Sudan , Allan Ramsay , in his capacity of chairman of the group of west European donor countries in Khartoum . |
| 7 | Training has been ‘ in-service ’ rather than before entry , and the highest posts have not gone to specialists but to broadly educated men and women who have specialized only in administration . |
| 8 | If you have not subscribed to Proceedings yet , here is a opportunity to find out for yourself what good value a subscription will bring . |
| 9 | Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors . |
| 10 | It is clearly related to learning , but whereas learning is a matter of accepting and understanding ideas which others have already promulgated , scientific discovery involves the acceptance and understanding of ideas which have not occurred to others , or which have not been published by others . |