Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , if you 're not otherwise engaged , why not come along to the wedding with me ? |
| 3 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 4 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 5 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 6 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 7 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 8 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 9 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 10 | For another , has the Scottish Tourist Board not cottoned on to the fact that this Sunday sailings issue is good copy . |
| 11 | Most workers have no idea of what is done with ‘ their ’ savings , even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management . |
| 12 | Their minds had not reached out to the terror of what had in fact happened . |
| 13 | The spokeswoman for the mission said : ’ Recognition not tied in to the negotiating process is not a sensible thing right now . ’ |
| 14 | The wall was not tied in to the end gables . |
| 15 | In a redemption action the mortgagee was allowed full costs ‘ not tied down to the costs taxed . ’ |
| 16 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 17 | Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ; |
| 18 | Coats , bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall . |
| 19 | Schools should be able to request more frequent inspections so that the best practice of a few is not brought down to the standard practice of the many . |
| 20 | Elisabeth had not walked over to the Villa with the other guests , but lagged behind . |
| 21 | The drawing suggests how a sector of resources has been ignored and is not linked in to the over-all plan . |
| 22 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 23 | If 1 Samuel 4 left them asking whether they could still regard themselves as the people of God , chapters 5 and 6 reassured them that their God had certainly not gone over to the Babylonians . |
| 24 | This was not passed on to the planning committee . |
| 25 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 26 | Interestingly , the shrouds are taken down to a deep , galvanised , mild steel I-beam which runs between this bulkhead and the main bulkhead forward of the mast : ties are not taken down to the hull itself , so the lockers and shelving behind the settees remain unobstructed . |
| 27 | This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations . |
| 28 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 29 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 30 | Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set . |