Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report is not intended to lead to new regulations but to establish an agenda for HSE work . |
| 2 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 3 | As ICI 's environmental communications manager , Dr Richard Robson explains , ‘ A lot of older plant was not designed to operate to current standards . ’ |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , of course , this kind of sampling does not allow the deployment of statistical analysis in order to make inferences to population values from the sample , since the selection of cases within quota categories is not done according to random sampling procedures . |
| 5 | Royal watchers said that during the first official engagement of the day the royal couple appeared to be in fairly good spirits , although they were not seen to talk to each other or exchange glances . |
| 6 | ‘ If you feel somewhat vulnerable in your dressing-gown let me remind you I have seen you in your nightdress and not felt driven to mindless passion . ’ |
| 7 | This was a declaration of sorts , however lightly made , and one which Dr Neil had not thought to make to any woman in any form , and before Sally-Anne could take in its full meaning he rapidly continued , ‘ And now let us stop providing entertainment for the passers-by . |
| 8 | Although the proportion of National Income taken in tax has risen , the UK is not overtaxed compared to other countries . |
| 9 | The urban bias of radio was thus increased : it was virtually impossible for people who had not become urbanized to some extent to be appointed as full-time radio broadcasters . |
| 10 | But conservatives claim that this sort of argument leads to the destruction of the moral foundations on which the social order is built : ‘ men can not for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaningless in their individual lives , so they can not for long accept a society in which power , privilege , and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria ’ . |
| 11 | It is difficult to address the function of this complex in the context of the PPT promoter or heterologous promoters as the protein was not observed binding to this SSB element in established tissue culture cell lines ( HeLa , MLA144 , CV1 C1300 and PC12 cells ) . |
| 12 | Although alarm is not expressed to relate to any particular source of concern , we do not usually speak of alarm in a vacuum . |
| 13 | In five years of feeding white worm I have not lost fry to any white worm related causes . |
| 14 | ‘ I have sometimes been astonished to hear the contemptuous manner in which Europeans in the Indies speak of [ Mughal architecture ] , ’ he writes , adding of the Delhi Jama Masjid : ‘ I grant that this building is not constructed according to those rules of architecture which we seem to think ought to be implicitly followed ; yet I can see no fault that offends taste . |
| 15 | Perhaps one detail I have not mentioned led to this unexpected response in me . |