Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 2 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 3 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 4 | This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties . |
| 5 | This means that your body has not produced antibodies to HIV , so you probably have not been infected by the virus . |
| 6 | ‘ Repetition in the face of failure has not added credibility to this forecast , ’ the report noted drily . |
| 7 | Freud 's reply is that the research method of psychoanalysis has revealed that religion has not helped men to be happy , nor moral , nor cultured and intelligent . |
| 8 | Good type tends not to draw attention to itself , using subtleties of size , serifs , heaviness of stroke , and other characteristics to give ease of reading . |
| 9 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 10 | However , the Act of 1988 does not govern access to quotas but the registration of fishing vessels and therefore affects access to all sea-fishing activities , including fishing for species not subject to quotas . |
| 11 | He does not devote space to what may be the most disturbing aspect of all — namely , the failure appropriately to diagnose conditions , which inevitably leads to the denial of appropriate treatment and the reinforcement of maladaptive behaviours . |
| 12 | The formula rewards authorities with large numbers of local independent providers and does not allocate resources to the authorities from which residents using that independently run care originated . |
| 13 | In my judgment there can be no doubt that , if Parliamentary privilege does not prohibit references to Hansard , the Parliamentary history shows that Parliament passed the legislation on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 of the Act was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concessionary education for teachers ' children , on the marginal cost to the employer and not on the average cost . |
| 14 | This was said to be ‘ the first Peruvian book of poetry that does not make tribute to a colonial aesthetic . ’ |
| 15 | One criticism of third normal form is that by making reference to other normal forms , hidden dependencies may not be revealed , BCNF does not make reference to other normal forms . |
| 16 | Although the Act does not make reference to the current climate of opinion about sexual explicitness , juries in obscenity trials are enjoined to keep in mind the current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 17 | The selection of source material will limit the information which can be processed , and may introduce unnecessary overheads if it does not fit material to be processed well ( Sampson , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | What he brought to the Card Trio was what the singers also brought , which is dramatic tension ; and yet its subtlety is such that it does not draw attention to itself , but simply contributes to the dramatic fabric of the whole . |
| 19 | The Holy Spirit does not draw attention to himself . |
| 20 | When I was in the north-east , there was particular concern among business men whom I met because the north-east in particular has benefited greatly from Japanese investment and it does not want investors to be frightened off . |
| 21 | Holt does not want children to be obliged to take on any of these responsibilities and he manages to make his point by concentrating solely on the rights so that he can remark : |
| 22 | Residential workers have the difficult task of finding a balance between guiding young people forward , perhaps before they are ready , and caring for them in a personal way which does not threaten loyalty to their parents . |
| 23 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 24 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 25 | A band could sign a recording contract , or receive income from live performances or session fees ( the receipt of prize money from a talent contest is tax free and does not give rise to taxable income unless this occurs on a regular basis ) . |
| 26 | He , however , rightly concluded that the Convention does not give rise to any enforceable rights under English law , but only a direct right in relation to the procedures established by the Convention . |
| 27 | Those on the outside form the trophoblast which does not give rise to any structures in the embryo proper but is involved in the implantation of the embryo in the uterus and the formation of the placenta . |
| 28 | Reason : ‘ To ensure that the operation of the plant does not give rise to an environmental hazard or danger to public health ’ . |
| 29 | That paragraph does not give rise to the inference that an appropriation of property is not theft when there is a ‘ consent ’ — if it can be rightly so described — which is founded upon the dishonesty of the defendant . |
| 30 | Most of this legislation is of a ‘ regulatory ’ nature and does not give rise to liability in damages . |