Example sentences of "not [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depositors ' funds are placed with HM Treasury , authorised banks , local authorities and building societies in Great Britain ; Tyndall does not lend to other customers . |
| 2 | There may be a limited exemption for non-profit-making bodies and foundations , provided that the data is used only ‘ as part of their legitimate aims ’ and ‘ on condition that they relate only those members and corresponding members who have consented to being included therein and that they are not communicated to third parties ’ . |
| 3 | Nor are they decentralised in the true meaning of the word : powers belonging to the centre are not devolved to peripheral firms . |
| 4 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 5 | Well this girl she 's got two children at and Nora 's got in with her , but her husband is an Iranian so she goes over to Iran every now and again , she 's got a key , I said I 'm not phoning to bloody Iran for you Nora . |
| 6 | Not apologising to other people for the behaviour of the primary sufferer . |
| 7 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By contrast , for Darwin as a genealogical ( ancestry and descent ) theorist of historical biogeography , resemblances and differences are not traced to developmental advances , but to ramifying migrations and adaptive divergences from common ancestors that are more or less remote from their diverse descendants in time , place and character . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A decision yesterday by regional councillors not to object to 500 acres of tree planting at Burnfoot farm , between Selkirk and Hawick , was described as extraordinary by the campaigners . |
| 14 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Second , the male family members , because they are male , are given a credibility — and hence power — to influence non admission not given to female members . |
| 17 | This may be unfair on her , but it probably helps the Community to have Mrs Cresson threatening to block Japanese exports if ‘ reciprocal access ’ is not given to European goods in Japan . |
| 18 | She flew with Maurice Dornier in the Do X flying-boat and enjoyed , it seems , many other privileges not given to other correspondents . |
| 19 | These are transaction prices , ignoring hire purchase charges , ‘ co-op ’ dividends and discounts not given to all customers . |
| 20 | Clearly assistance is not given to all kin invariably and whatever the circumstances , but are there certain relationships where it is given almost automatically ? |
| 21 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 22 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 23 | But they also stress that if time and attention is not given to younger pupils , the cost could be great . |
| 24 | We 'd never produce budgets without erm having thoroughly discussed them with the Treasurer and saying to the Treasurer 's Department of the County Council , which is a very conservative department I have to say ( with a small c ) ; it 's not given to wild flurries of excitement and imagination . |
| 25 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 26 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 27 | Although not given to dramatic expressions , he found himself thinking : End of Act One . |
| 28 | For ‘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ’ , another poem , a different problem , Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds on an emblematic , almost mystical level : The paradoxes are as bewildering as the mystery of the Holy Trinity : Mysterious and desirable though such a union may be , it is not given to human beings , and in the Sonnets it does not take place . |
| 29 | They were not given to silly pranks at any time , let alone a quarter to two on Sunday morning . |
| 30 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |