Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could imagine its reception in England , particularly from Clarissa , who was intrinsically a very sensible girl , not given to ideas of fantasy . |
| 2 | Her was not given to eloquence about the beauties of the countryside , and was puzzled that he should come out with this remark . |
| 3 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 4 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 5 | For example , in addition to the road-traffic offences , there are offences under sections 32 and 33 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of endangering railway passengers ; there are the offences under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 of endangering the lives of others by causing damage to property ( usually by fire ) ; the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 penalizes employers for failure to ensure that employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety ; and there are offences , such as that under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , of selling goods in contravention of safety regulations . |
| 6 | The Health and Safety at Work ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1978 requires the University to ensure , as far as is reasonably practicable , that students are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 7 | Thirteenth-century reformers expended much energy and ingenuity trying to ensure that parishes were properly served and that the souls of parishioners were not exposed to perdition by the negligence and greed of pluralist incumbents . |
| 8 | We use the phrase " trade connections " rather than " customer connections " because the interest is not limited to customers of the employer ; it can in certain cases extend to potential customers and also to suppliers : see Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 3 All ER 288 and Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 . |
| 9 | The nominal transformation ratio n in the instance shown is 4:1 step down , but unlike some other voltage-changing schemes using capacitors , n can be any whole number ; it is not limited to powers of 2 . |
| 10 | The Project set out to develop and encourage ‘ good practice ’ in the teaching of mathematics to low-attaining pupils , but it became clear at an early stage that low attainment was not limited to pupils in the ‘ bottom 40 per cent ’ attainment range . |
| 11 | Loretta hoped Mr Koogan 's experience of journalists was not limited to representatives of the Sun . |
| 12 | Any other information , oral written , or in pictorial form including but not limited to material of a technical , operational , administrative economic , planning business or financial nature which may be provided to you and your Representatives ( as defined below ) during the course of your evaluation of the Company , whether provided by KPMG Peat Marwick , the management and employees of the Company , or the shareholders of the Company ( ‘ the Vendors ’ ) or their professional advisers . |
| 13 | It was interesting , moreover , to see that Conductive Education groups at the Institute were not limited to children with severe motor problems . |
| 14 | It has the additional advantage that every subject can be shown identical films , thus interpretations of differences in performance are not limited to comparisons between junctions . |
| 15 | Had he not travelled to parts of Kurdistan where no white man had ever trod ? |
| 16 | At last , it was registering with Jimmy that Cardiff was not dead , not torn to pieces by the thing down there . |
| 17 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 18 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 19 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 20 | Law firms have not come to grips with the issues , ’ says Geraldine Cotton , chair of the 5,500-strong English Association of Women Solicitors . |
| 21 | Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June . |
| 22 | Grace Jones is not expected to guest on vocals . |
| 23 | Her answer to the Dean 's famous poem on Celia 's dressing room ‘ is not recommended to readers of a nervous disposition ( ed ) ’ ; in parts it is more disgusting than the original . |
| 24 | The House held , agreeing with the Court of Appeal , that there is a tort of intimidation , but they also held , reversing the Court of Appeal , that the tort extends to threats by A to break his contract with B and is not confined to threats of criminal or tortious conduct . |
| 25 | The protection is not confined to interference with contracts of employment but where the contract affected is not a contract of employment , there are restrictions on the use of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 26 | His interests were not confined to works on paper , but also included tapestries , silver , glass , bronzes and paintings , some of which were offered at auction by Sotheby 's in 1987 . |
| 27 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |
| 28 | If by neutralisation is meant establishing Great Power guarantees for the neutrality of states or regions , then Soviet interest in this process or regime certainly was not confined to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 29 | The region 's legacy from these centuries was not confined to models of conflict , however . |
| 30 | Belief in progress was not confined to supporters of scientism , but the two went very easily together ; and we should now review this progress . |