Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet can not the elder referred to in the example be said to have acted morally even though he did not adhere to the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence ? |
| 2 | Does not the proactivity need to be politicians of all parties coming together and discussing and listening to each other rather than simply making pronouncements ? |
| 3 | The wording of the question is not the factor leading to difficulty the same wording used with whole numbers for criterion 1 e produced a success rate of over 80 per cent . |
| 4 | This is not the Gospel according to Scrooge . |
| 5 | The manuscript had just been discovered in the uncatalogued recesses of the British Museum ; it was exciting work , said the doctor , but difficult : the manuscript was badly damaged and as he had not the money to go to London he was having to work from a smudged xerox copy . |
| 6 | As they talk over old times in Santander this week , where England start their rehabilitation course after the Swedish nightmare , perhaps Neal can start persuading the boss that giving every English player in the Premier League a cap is not the way to get to America . |
| 7 | In addition , the physician made a personal assessment as to whether or not the patient seemed to be psychologically stressed at the time of the visit ; the physician 's evaluation of the patient 's status was recorded as ‘ stressed ’ or ‘ unstressed ’ . |
| 8 | In contrast , an unavoidable cost is one that is going to be incurred whether or not the decision related to a particular opportunity is accepted or rejected . |
| 9 | He is not the type to go to the pub and just pick someone up . |
| 10 | We are unable to get addresses of our so it 's word of mouth how we , how we er include , but why should not the employer send to all pensioners and deferred pensioners notices about the associations . |
| 11 | McLeish decided that it was probably not the moment to suggest to her that the real reason any civil servant disliked lobbyists must be that the chaps were paid to make sure Ministers got a view other than the Departmental one . |
| 12 | This was not the time to object to his tone . |
| 13 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 14 | ‘ This is not the time to revert to a non-graduate teaching force which would undermine and dilute the profession as a whole , ’ said Mr Woods . |
| 15 | The parts of the programmes which might cause ‘ misunderstanding ’ should be revised , but not the parts related to academic opinions which can be discussed within society . |
| 16 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 17 | John Robertson the schoolmaster had come ‘ trotting along from the manse , looking full of himself and with not a word to say to anyone ’ . |
| 18 | For situations when all other attempts to suggest a word have failed , it would be preferable to provide a string of characters which is in some way a best guess , even if that string is not a word known to the lexicon . |
| 19 | Nor did he refer to it in his address to new SS recruits at midnight on 9 November , and not a word relating to the pogrom was contained in his confidential speech — not meant for public consumption — to leaders of the German press on the evening of 10 November , less than twenty-four hours after the burning of the synagogues and the destruction of Jewish property throughout the length and breadth of Germany . |
| 20 | This is not a technique restricted to India . |
| 21 | Answer not a fool according to his folly , lest thou be like unto him . |
| 22 | A further problem with compensation theory is its neglect of the effect of unemployment benefit , not a factor needing to be taken into account by the earliest exponents of this theory , writing in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Before the Act , there was some doubt as to whether or not a person had to be aware that his conduct or language was or might be regarded as being threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 24 | However , quieter deadspots and louder ‘ wolfnotes ’ are inherent to all wooden instruments , and it 's usually not a problem to adapt to them . |
| 25 | Nevertheless it is not a mistake to look to a municipal model , for our interest is in what international law can be , not simply what it is . |
| 26 | Falconry is not a sport confined to women , but on this occasion I felt I had seen the perfect emblem for the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ . |
| 27 | It was after the finding that the real work began , and Pascoe was not a man given to anticipating events . |
| 28 | Erm but now another man erm wishing to exist or perhaps , but not a man wishing to be other erm approached them er and when he found us , for we were not outside the all |
| 29 | Not a man gone to the English harvest , because the Board of Works had promised work in Ireland . ’ |
| 30 | Mandy 's candour took him completely by surprise , and it was obvious he was not a man accustomed to being surprised . |