Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council should not agree to standing orders being ‘ suspended ’ except in a real emergency otherwise the conduct of the council 's business will be unnecessarily prolonged and the standard of debate lowered . |
| 2 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 3 | While it is recognized that anyone might experience anger at some time , and engage in a quarrel , most would not admit to having done so . |
| 4 | No , I would not object to working with him again . ’ |
| 5 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 6 | Most interviews lasted 60–90 minutes , and all the interviews were recorded for analysis and categorisation , with the exception of four bank staff who would not agree to having their discussions placed on tape . |
| 7 | In the last category was a proposal from Sir Stafford Cripps , British Ambassador in Moscow , for the occupation of the coal-mining and strategic island of Spitzbergen ( see map p. 28 ) , but Allied sea power would not stretch to convoying supplies for a garrison so far from home waters . |
| 8 | But you always evaded this question , saying your allowance from home would not stretch to paying the extra rent . |
| 9 | It may be true , as some suggest , that working-class budgets would not stretch to paying for the regular use of new birth-control methods but old , tried and cheap techniques might still be used . |
| 10 | She had nothing at all to go on , I thought , except that phone call , and she naturally would n't admit to having listened to that . |
| 11 | If he knew it was a matter of international security I 'm certain he would n't object to having the crate opened . ’ |
| 12 | they keep pulling back up , you would n't have to strained any energy going back up |
| 13 | They ca n't adjust to living in houses . ’ |
| 14 | Méliès 's first example , the girl turning into a skeleton in The Vanishing Lady ( 1896 ) , is more persuasively achieved by a dissolve in Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) when Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins ) , locked up in jail , is taken over by his ‘ mother ’ ( that is , his fantasy of the mother he ca n't admit to having killed ) and his face turns into a skull , her skull . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that he will not agree to binding minimum rates of income tax in Europe , which have been advocated by the Socialist Confederation in Europe and are supported by the Labour party in this country ? |
| 16 | Allowing the buyer to have access to the goods , e.g. to paint or repair , will not amount to giving him possession provided the seller retains control over the goods . |
| 17 | The seller wo n't admit to having noisy neighbours , but you are more likely to find out if you make further visits . |