Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a follow up to its advice on what not to wear to an interview ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 21 ) , Robert Half recruitment consultants — obviously not snowed under with work at the moment — has joined forces with Accountemps to unveil some of the stranger CVs companies have received over the years . |
| 2 | Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries . |
| 3 | The IDA once again flew in another independent medical expert , Dr Muriel Newhouse of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who assured the planning inquiry that she would not object to an asbestos dump , such as the one proposed , being sited ‘ at the bottom of her garden ’ . |
| 4 | That question is not addressed to an association or a federation . |
| 5 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |
| 6 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 7 | The meaning is uncertain , but it can not refer to an offering to a demon , as some suggest , for this was strictly forbidden ( see , e.g. , 17:7 ) . |
| 8 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 9 | Pausanias describes Cimon 's Theseion as including a picture by Mikon of Theseus at the bottom of the sea ( the subject of fig. 98 ) , and pictures of a Centauromachy and an Amazonomachy which he does not ascribe to an artist . |
| 10 | However , if your circumstances change , and you can not keep to an arrangement , tell the fuel supplier , who should not cut you off without offering you another arrangement or a pre-payment meter . |
| 11 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 12 | But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year . |
| 13 | Even in Berlin the French legation was not raised to an embassy until 1862 ; and in the aftermath of the defeat of 1870 – 71 it was seriously proposed to save money by appointing only ministers and no ambassadors at all in future , though nothing came of this . |
| 14 | It is coming to an end in May , it is not coming to an end in practice . |
| 15 | An objection to liability in this case , advanced by Williams , is that the doctor who fails to treat has not done something ; he has merely failed to act , and an omission can not amount to an abetment . |
| 16 | The surrender of part did not amount to an eviction of the assignee , it resulted from an agreement between the assignee and the landlord : one can see details of that in the report of the Divisional Court decision ( 1888 ) 21 Q.B.D. 101 , 102 . |
| 17 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 18 | Even where the advertisement does not amount to an offence , the Director General may consider that an approach to the Advertising Standards Authority ( a non-statutory body with no legal powers ) would be an adequate way of dealing with the complaint . |
| 19 | Burglary is very slightly redefined in its s.9(1) ( b ) form to correct the anomaly that the infliction of grievous bodily harm need not amount to an offence . |
| 20 | One disputed point is whether words alone can constitute an assault : the preponderance of authority is probably that mere words , unaccompanied by any threatening conduct , can not amount to an assault , but if the point of the offence is to penalize the creation of fear of imminent attack , it is difficult to see why utterances such as ‘ Get out the knives ’ or ‘ Let's hit them ’ should be regarded more indulgently than a raised hand . |
| 21 | His conduct does not amount to an assault , since his use of force is lawful . |
| 22 | The requirement of immediate fear means that a threat to carry out violence in the future does not amount to an assault even though fear is present . |
| 23 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 24 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 25 | Accordingly , the accused 's behaviour did not amount to an intention permanently to deprive the owner of the information . |
| 26 | Where bookings occur by an exchange of letters , the initial inquiry by the guest does not amount to an offer to contract , nor necessarily does the hotel 's reply to the guest stating the tariff and room availability . |
| 27 | Similarly , the display of goods in a shop window does not amount to an offer , Fisher v. Bell ( 1961 D.C. ) . |
| 28 | A matter is defined as every proceeding in a county court which may be commenced as prescribed other than by plaint ( CCA , s 147(1) ) ie any proceeding which does not amount to an action . |
| 29 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 30 | In the case of a public company subject , at the time of its registration or re-registration , to a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement , sections 89 to 95 do not apply to an allotment of the equity securities which are subject to such a requirement . |