Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 2 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 3 | If you 're fed up with giving him heart-shaped chocolates on St. Valentine 's Day , why not treat him to one of these delicious haircuts ! |
| 4 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 5 | ‘ Why not bring her to next week 's fashion show and introduce her to me ? ’ he suggested . |
| 6 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 7 | He does not misuse freedom , and he does not expect us to either . |
| 8 | Unlike the Full Plans method , the use of the Building Notice procedure does not entitle you to any documentary proof from your council that your proposal is satisfactory , or that the work will be accepted by the Buildings Control Officer who is required to inspect the work as it proceeds . |
| 9 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
| 10 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 11 | The Labour party 's role should be to bring those matters under democratic control and not to surrender them to remote , unaccountable central bankers . |
| 12 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 13 | The more recent stress has been on identifying values in the curriculum , and not limiting them to religious or moral education classes . |
| 14 | Once I speak with her , tell her the truth , she will surely not force me to this marriage . ’ |
| 15 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 16 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 17 | Sometimes this was easier and cheaper , especially as increasing population could outpace workhouse provision ; sometimes it was because the parish officers discriminated in their application of the " test " and did not apply it to all kinds of claimant . |
| 18 | Their patronage may not launch you to instant international attention , but they might help to raise the takings at your next gig in the junior Common Room or village hall , simply by listing the date , time and place . |
| 19 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 20 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 21 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 22 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 23 | The self-authenticating nature of their experiences meant that neither of them was able to doubt them , yet the similarities must not blind us to certain differences . |
| 24 | Your investigations , Mister Cowley , have not led us to any further evidence to confirm or clarify the intentions of these men ? , |
| 25 | Remember also that a vocational degree does not bind you to one particular field of employment . |
| 26 | At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage . |
| 27 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 28 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 29 | ‘ This did not endear me to certain people at BRM . |
| 30 | Hopefully we have not left it to late . |