Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I faithfully promised not to breathe a word to ‘ my friend ’ , went back to the room and sought Brian 's opinion . |
| 2 | Now , though , the group is seeking to , if not make a return to its fame of the 70s , then at least heighten public awareness of its work . |
| 3 | When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 4 | The increase in complaints may have something to do with the fact that we believe that it is important that if someone has not received the care to which he thinks he is entitled from the NHS , his right to complain should not be a well-kept secret , as has too often happened in the past . |
| 5 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 6 | The Statute of Limitations itself does not affect the right to payment , but only affects the procedure for enforcing it in the event of dispute or refusal to pay . |
| 7 | Er I think we should also assume that the regional er budgetholders will not make a contribution to any costs we might incur cos I do n't think any budget they 'll have will be intended to cater for er you know , paying people 's wages for them getting unpaid time off . |
| 8 | A company can not make a loan to a director of the company ( see s. 330 ) . |
| 9 | Why not make a visit to the International Motor Show , the British International Antiques Fair , or any of the numerous public exhibitions covering everything from photography to holidays and travel , and classic cars to boats and caravans . |
| 10 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 11 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |
| 12 | Older teenagers do not want a mother to be yearning over them day and night , even when several hundred miles lie between them . |
| 13 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 14 | I quote from one such document without giving my source because I do not want the firm to be identified : |
| 15 | The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation . |
| 16 | ( However , it must be said that even here , the seller would probably not want the contract to be terminated too quickly or easily by the buyer , as the seller has more to lose by being denied the chance to perform and get full payment for the supply of his goods . ) |
| 17 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 18 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 19 | Councillor John Wilson said he did not want the guidelines to be mandatory . |
| 20 | The court will not want the defendant to be liable indefinitely for damage and will impose a cut off point beyond which the damage is said to be too remote . |
| 21 | Muddling along with Stalinism : Marlies Menge visits an East Berlin family which has not joined the exodus to the West |
| 22 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |
| 23 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 24 | Sometimes Anne was annoyed by this unnecessary furtiveness and sometimes wondered why John had not explained the situation to her sooner and let her decide whether she wished to be involved with him , but she pushed these doubts aside . |
| 25 | 1.64 In Chambers v Karia where the order had not assigned the payment to any particular head of damage the whole of the interim payment was deducted just from special damages and not applied pro rata to all the heads of damage awarded , which does seem to be the correct approach . |
| 26 | Examples of reasons given by the Secretary of State for not allowing a property to be exempted include : |
| 27 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 28 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish you had not given the money to the Moslems . ’ |
| 30 | He obtained her signature but did not explain the document to her and she signed it without understanding it . |