Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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1 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
2 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
3 | Some folk use machine knitting because they can not , or do not wish to , hand knit . |
4 | The faster fitness style and stamina section featured will appeal to many younger people , and videos of this type are very popular with those who can not , or do not wish to , go to a regular class . |
5 | If good faith requires only that the holder have no actual notice that the goods have not been shipped or do not correspond to the bill of lading description , the holder does not have to prove that it give value or consideration , as it must under the Pomerene Act . |
6 | I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in . |
7 | Or do n't want to . ’ |
8 | If you ca n't — or do n't want to — breastfeed , why does it seem that the whole world is out to make you feel guilty ? |
9 | On a local level it 's quite hard to distinguish ratings , but there is a certain folklore and sometimes it 's an information that comes out as to whether people to listen to things or do n't listen to things . |
10 | Training logs are one of those things you simply do or do n't take to . |
11 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
12 | He pretended he did n't know me or did n't want to . |
13 | It took the head of household — the husband , usually — to be the tax payer and assumed that wives , for example , were somehow uninterested in the tax bill or did not contribute to it . |
14 | Somehow I felt I could not , or did not want to , explain about Miss Havisham and her strange house . |
15 | It seemed as if Walterkin 's request for more information had become a subliminal trigger which Lucien could not , or did not want to , ignore . |
16 | ‘ Rock should not , or does n't intend to , appeal to the intelligentsia , because your balls have nothing to do with your brains . |
17 | Trollope portrays her as someone who knows she is cynical and too worldly , but knows she can not , or does not want to , do anything about it . |
18 | Nevertheless the degree to which custom , as directly observed , conforms or does not conform to a predetermined stereotype needs to be looked at very carefully . |
19 | ( c ) You may find that Halliday 's model of thematic analysis does not apply to your language at all or does not apply to some of its sentence patterns . |
20 | The difficulty arises when it is uncertain whether or not the competent adult ( as I call her for brevity ) does or does not consent to the proposed treatment . |
21 | There is , I think , no material distinction between interpreting the law for the purposes of applying it , having due regard to article 10 , and interpreting the law for the purposes of deciding , when the point has not been finally decided by the courts , whether the law does or does not provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel . |
22 | ‘ I really do n't much care , ’ she snapped , ‘ about what appeals or does not appeal to that obnoxious mire you call a mind . |
23 | Thus Regulation 418/85 provides exemption for R&D agreements from the effects of Article 85 , making it clear that exemptions only apply to agreements that do not extend to joint marketing and selling . |
24 | Egalitarian feminist psychology tends to neglect gender issues that do not relate to traditional psychological interest . |
25 | This is the reason we can have solid bodies that do not collapse to a point or radiate away to infinity . |
26 | Alternatively , transcription of C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β may be induced by other factors that do not belong to the C/EBP-family . |
27 | Opinions that do not claim to be a statement of fact are therefore not covered by this principle . |
28 | Condition is relatively immaterial , as those that do not appeal to collectors are often bought by visitors who can not afford the full price of an up to date guide . |
29 | In fact , there are relatively few morphological , physiological or behavioural characteristics that do not differ to some extent between males and females ( see Glucksman , 1974 ) and the extent of these differences varies widely between species . |
30 | First , we can present descriptions and interpretations of societies that do not conform to the Western model of humans as essentially aggressive . |