Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 2 | A contract of hire is a species of bailment and although it is readily distinguishable from sale in that general property is not intended to pass to the hirer , there are important public policy issues in a consumer hire context , which dictate that the owner be subject to similar liability to that visited upon the seller . |
| 3 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 4 | Even following recession , energy demand is not expected to return to the levels of growth originally predicted . |
| 5 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the line , the aircraft all start from the same common stock , but as they progress the goodies are added or not added according to the order . |
| 7 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 8 | The seller will be in breach of these if all charges and encumbrances ( e.g. liens ) known to him were not made known to the buyer before the contract was made . |
| 9 | Adam knelt beside her , thinking of Zosie and Zosie 's mother and stepfather who had not bothered to go to the police when their daughter unaccountably vanished . |
| 10 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 11 | The services of tableware always included numerous saucers which were invariably made of white silver ; they were not gilded owing to the constituents of the sauces , such as lemon juice , which would tarnish the gilded metal . |
| 12 | That usage was not found in the classical texts , in which voluntas is not used to refer to the source of validity of a trust but as a criterion in assessing the content of a trust . |
| 13 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 14 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 15 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
| 16 | We can perhaps refer to the superior working-class culture and superior beer , but we are not allowed to refer to the economic or industrial successes . |
| 17 | I was not allowed to speak to the workers … it seems that their trade union membership is not allowed by the management . |
| 18 | Speech not ordered according to the norms of logic ( or to put this another way , ordered according to women 's differing notion of logic ) . |
| 19 | 12–3–1892 The classes were not held owing to the amount of sickness in the district . |
| 20 | She had n't forgotten going to the pictures with Vernon to see The Song of Bernadette . |
| 21 | So I was spinning the cam round , it had n't got pinned to the shaft , just spinning it round on the shaft and these pawls were doing this and Les , the top one , he went to Kettering and then Don , the next top one , he went to er |
| 22 | It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go . |
| 23 | It 's perhaps the only committee , if one dare call it a committee of this council , where the chief officer has n't troubled to come to the budget review and represent the interests of his committee . |
| 24 | you would n't you still were n't allowed to go to the funeral ? |
| 25 | That 's like some boys done in my school and they got caught and then they were n't allowed to go to the disco . |
| 26 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |