Example sentences of "not [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 2 | Even if he or she does not answer to this title directly , there is usually one member of staff who has responsibility for supporting and assisting qualified staff with their continued professional education . |
| 3 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 4 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |
| 5 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 6 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 7 | Yet this radical worker , formed in the revolutionary school of before 1848 , was to make his mark on labour history as the cautious , moderate and above all efficient administrator of the greatest of the ‘ new model ’ skilled unions , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ; and was both a practising Anglican churchman and ‘ in politics a sound and consistent liberal , not given to political quackery in any form ’ . |
| 8 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 9 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 10 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE ’ ( 1968 II : 551 ) . |
| 12 | Unpredictable and volatile exchange rates are an incentive for resources to be shifted towards the non-traded goods sector which is not exposed to international competition and is largely unaffected by sizeable and unanticipated exchange rate changes . |
| 13 | American interests demanded a friendly and stable Middle East , one which was not exposed to Soviet interference or encroachment , and from which supplies of oil — especially to Western Europe — were assured . |
| 14 | He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source , however muted . |
| 15 | Two principal ( albeit contradictory ) difficulties arose : the belief of the governments of some member states ( including the UK ) that any such procedure should be voluntary , and the fact that Vredeling was not limited to collective representation of employees through trade unions . |
| 16 | As in the High Court the power is not limited to personal injury cases . |
| 17 | I am vulnerable to the inference here that my inquiry has vested interests ; that because I am an African-American and a writer I stand to benefit in ways not limited to intellectual fulfilment from this line of questioning . |
| 18 | And and a funny thing is , it 's not limited to social class within Holland itself . |
| 19 | However , as we have already indicated , we believe that means of protection from psychic pain is not limited to this list ; any feeling can be used to defend the self from any other feeling which is feared . |
| 20 | However , the shapechangers had not travelled to this planet in a space hopper . |
| 21 | I have heard Christians give all sorts of response to this , for some will feel that indeed a non-Christian will not attain to eternal life . |
| 22 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 24 | … Oakeshott 's conservatism does not appeal to any sort of metaphysical or religious beliefs for sanction or support ; nor does it hark back to a more integrated and traditional form of society . |
| 25 | Claire Robinson in her affidavit deposes that all parties were in agreement that the court on 16 February had not come to any opinion as to whether or not Mr. Bell had broken or was likely to break any condition of his bail . |
| 26 | And finally can I reemphasise that we have not come to any conclusion as to which road we shall go down on this one . |
| 27 | Thus in an ordinary broking transaction disclosure on the contract note in accordance with SFA Table 5 — 34(2) , para 11 , will be sufficient ( provided that the customer does not object to late disclosure ) . |
| 28 | Officials let it be understood that Turkey would not object to Kurdish autonomy in a federal Iraq , but Özal , interviewed on March 29 , said that the Kurdish leaders " were clearly told they should definitely not consider a separate state " . |
| 29 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 30 | The need for proper assessment and cooperation at the time of hospital discharge is an essential preventive measure to ensure that elderly people are not discharged to inappropriate care settings . |