Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not want to go to all this trouble so I 'll let you in on another easier method of finding some good swims . |
| 2 | On page 12 Whit Deschner explains why you would not want to go to this prime honeypot river . |
| 3 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 4 | Is it really true that industrialists do not want to return to such a situation ? |
| 5 | The overwhelming majority of the British people do not want to return to such Victorian values as jobs at any price . |
| 6 | Industrialists do not want to return to Labour party policies because they know full well that that would mean Front-Bench Labour Members taking decisions instead of them . |
| 7 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 8 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 9 | I do not need to refer to this . |
| 10 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 11 | They did not like to talk to Egyptian people . |
| 12 | I would not like to contribute to that , although I suppose that Mr Smith 's vicious tax might just persuade me to brace my shoulders and cry ‘ traps away ’ . |
| 13 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 14 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 15 | The seller does not have to agree to this and if he does , that will not normally affect the operation of section 20 . |
| 16 | Indeed it may well be that the most powerful person is someone who does not have to resort to physical force at all . |
| 17 | In this case , the laws of science would determine the universe completely ; one would not have to appeal to some agency external to the universe to determine how it began . |
| 18 | The move to introduce specialist designations stems from the belief that the Institute has a responsibility to its members to formally recognise and award qualifications for specialist knowledge and skills , so that they do not have to look to outside bodies . |
| 19 | It almost goes without saying that the camera lifter does not have to soar to great heights , and it will perforce have to fly in a steady breeze of 10 knots or more . |
| 20 | We do not wish to listen to that noise all afternoon . ‘ |
| 21 | By 1974 the people of the occupied territories clearly did not wish to return to Jordanian or Egyptian control and wanted self-determination , something which 242 did not propose , as the PLO began to complain . |
| 22 | If you do not intend to return to nursing employment in the near future , then you can only remain as up to date with nursing theory as possible in anticipation of your planned return , and hope that the evidence you eventually provide of recent study is sufficient to convince the Board of your readiness to return . |
| 23 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 24 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer all questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 25 | Nitric oxide does not seem to conform to this pattern of behaviour and indeed challenges classical concepts of neurotransmission . |
| 26 | Sometimes several chimpanzees may take part in the hunt , but they do not seem to collaborate to any greater extent than lions or wolves . |
| 27 | This does not seem to correspond to any community published elsewhere , but of course the environment is rather marginal for woodland growth at this locality . |
| 28 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 29 | Intriguingly , these rules do not seem to apply to defined-contribution pensions bought by individuals directly from insurance companies . |
| 30 | Those who can not afford to go to many concerts or buy records , or who live far from the centres of music-making , can hear much good orchestral music by radio . |