Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 2 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 3 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 4 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 5 | If the commissioner finds maladministration and the authority does not remedy it to the satisfaction of the complainant , there is no way in which the complainant can pursue the matter further . |
| 6 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | The British Museum might be glad of the opportunity to study your find , so why not send it to the Keeper of Coins and Medals , who will quickly return it with his comments ? |
| 10 | Have to say the planets and do n't forget we 've got to think about other solar systems as well so we 're not let's not limit us to the number , the planets why not . |
| 11 | Or if you 're not in a position to make a decision , why not suggest it to the woolly mammoth ? |
| 12 | He need not return them to the seller , who if he wants them must come and collect them , section 36 . |
| 13 | If we baldly declare the Bible world-picture and do not interpret it to the modern world in such a way as to make it intelligible , we are useless . |
| 14 | The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares . |
| 15 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 16 | But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things . |
| 17 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 18 | Why not circulate them to the whole group . |
| 19 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 20 | But intellect does not lead us to the Lord . |
| 21 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 22 | The marketing of the man should not blind us to the fact that he is a great artist , unafraid of engaging mass culture . |
| 23 | In particular , the image of Germany epitomised by her most famous export , the Mercedes , as a country which is well built , reliable , and which performs well , should not blind us to the fact that the history of the Federal Republic has been a history of scandals , which have reached to the very highest echelons of power . |
| 24 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |
| 25 | Whether or not early retirement and high unemployment continue , however , they should not blind us to the need to consider other factors which influence our capacity to care for dependent populations . |
| 26 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 28 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 29 | If , in popular music , these take on to some extent an ‘ automatic ’ quality , this should not blind us to the contradictory potentials of such historical continuities . |
| 30 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |