Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is not the type to go to the pub and just pick someone up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was not the time to object to his tone . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | John Robertson the schoolmaster had come ‘ trotting along from the manse , looking full of himself and with not a word to say to anyone ’ . |
| 10 | However , quieter deadspots and louder ‘ wolfnotes ’ are inherent to all wooden instruments , and it 's usually not a problem to adapt to them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is not an attempt to return to a nineteenth-century form of laissez-faire but to change the structures of our society in a direction more consonant with our Christian principles . |
| 13 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |
| 14 | we were in town on Saturday and I saw two really nice sports bags , but we had so many parcels I I did n't had n't the heart to suggest to Bill we |
| 15 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 16 | He knew that he could have carried the coffee into the comparative serenity of his study but he had n't the courage to get to his feet . |
| 17 | Dunlop said : ‘ I agreed to alter the gear box for Darren so it would be more suitable for Donington but I was riding in every race after the 125 and I physically just had n't the time to attend to it immediately . |
| 18 | He had n't a word to throw to a dog . |
| 19 | He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition . |
| 20 | He was the only father you 've ever known , so it is n't a crime to refer to him that way ! |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps there is n't an outside to go to . ’ |