Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age . |
| 2 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |
| 3 | A general term can not give rise to zeugma in this way : |
| 4 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 5 | Most of this legislation is of a ‘ regulatory ’ nature and does not give rise to liability in damages . |
| 6 | The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions . |
| 7 | ‘ You , like myself , my lord , are in but your thirteenth year — pray let us not give thought to death ! ’ |
| 8 | One must not give way to despair . |
| 9 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 10 | Fenella gasped and then thrust her clenched fist into her mouth , because she would not , she emphatically would not give way to polish emotion . |
| 11 | Unlike the annual Environment White Papers , a sustainable development report need not give space to quality of life issues where there are no long term implications , such as local issues of litter , the nuisance from dogs , noise , etc . |
| 12 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 13 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 14 | America , Britain and France do not see eye to eye . |
| 15 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 16 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 17 | The portly Breton was standing in the town in yesterday 's parliamentary elections but it would appear that he does not see eye to eye with local activists . |
| 18 | In this analysis , people do not attribute legitimacy to authority because they recognize its claim to a foundation in some principle or source outside itself . |
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| 20 | However , it is generally true that mainstream teachers do not have access to specialist knowledge beyond very generic special needs training . |
| 21 | For many years farm workers , and other rural inhabitants who did not have access to home ownership , had been quietly and routinely disadvantaged by the housing policies of many rural local authorities . |
| 22 | Candidates shall not have access to examination scripts . |
| 23 | If this is supposed impossible for the Westerner ( assuming he is not too old ! ) it must be because , and only because , he does not have access to information allowed the Chinese as children . |
| 24 | However , if it is thought that the joint tenancy might be severed ( and there might be good matrimonial or tax planning reasons for this ) it is preferable to include the enlargement of powers as in Precedent 34 for otherwise the trustees of the conveyance may not have power to mortgage or charge the property ( see Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 , s8 ) . |
| 25 | In the final analysis , if the small farmer and peasant of the Third World can not or will not take conservation to heart , no amount of model-building , empirical plot studies , erosion risk assessment or legislation will result in the preservation of the soil 's resources . |
| 26 | Alfie Kane , BT 's director of network operations , said : ‘ Crippling the 999 phone service in this way may sooner or later lead to the death of innocent people who can not gain access to emergency services , and it is in everyone 's interest that these people are caught . ’ |
| 27 | surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age . |
| 28 | The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there . |
| 29 | As the philosopher Gillian Rose has pointed out , " recognising our transformative or productive activity has a special claim as a mode of acknowledging actuality which transcends the dichotomies between theoretical and practical reason … transformative activity acknowledges actuality in the act and does not oppose act to non-act " . |
| 30 | The Court held that marriage does not imply consent to fellatio . |