Example sentences of "not [vb infin] its [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the Scotch whisky industry , with such a splendid export record , does not want its business to be run by politicians , who should only consume the stuff and not organise and manage the businesses . |
| 2 | However , the label ’ semantic ’ will continue to be used , although it is intended that the reader should not restrict its denotation to the strict linguistic sense . |
| 3 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | Franco was quick to exploit the lack of unity in Allied attitudes to Spain , accusing the United States of intransigence and ingratitude and stating defiantly that Spain would not curtail its aid to Germany under Allied duress . |
| 5 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 6 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 7 | Gwynedd Health Authority has also issued an assurance that the disaster will not alter its commitment to a multi-million pound investment programme . |
| 8 | If Labour can not stake its claim to be the future government , it may be by-passed by events and find itself back in the wilderness . |
| 9 | Jordan did not abandon its claim to the West Bank . |
| 10 | Despite PLO-Hashemite co-operation , Jordan did not abandon its claim to the West Bank . |
| 11 | On security issues , Solomon reassured the leaders that the US would not abandon its commitment to a strong regional presence . |
| 12 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 13 | The catalogue of a small library should not encourage its users to be too persistent without warning them that the library may hold nothing relevant . |
| 14 | India , which had removed the final contingent of Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) troops from Sri Lanka in March 1990 [ see p. 37316 ] , expressed concern for the plight of Tamil civilians but made it clear that it would not permit its territory to be used to support militant activity . |
| 15 | And of course a familiar populist complaint about modernist fiction is that it does not communicate its meaning to the reader in a clear and comprehensible way . |
| 16 | It takes the form of a guide to proper reporting practice , although it does not cross-reference its prescriptions to their sources of authority nor indeed does it explain what hierarchy of authority those sources represent . |
| 17 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 18 | To imagine a straight structure which did not owe its straightness to this cause would require an assumption of a highly fortuitous combination of angles between sections . ’ |
| 19 | court should not shut its eyes to fact that statistically one in three marriages end in divorce . |
| 20 | Despite the centralist tendencies of most non-Catalan Republicans and Socialists , the Republican-Socialist alliance could not escape its commitment to Catalan autonomy . |
| 21 | On Dec. 4 Koirala had been quoted in Katmandu as saying that Nepal would not allow its territory to be used as bases by activists from the Indian states of Punjab , Kashmir and Assam . |
| 22 | Hezb-i-Islami had previously had the backing of Pakistan and had bases inside that country , but on Aug. 13 , in an unprecedented statement , Pakistan 's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had obliquely attacked Hekmatyar , stating that " Pakistan would not allow its territory to be used by unscrupulous elements engaged in undermining the territorial integrity of Afghanistan " . |
| 23 | Christianity can not lose its reference to that history . |
| 24 | And he made clear that even if British Coal decided against a reprieve the Government would not block its sale to a private company . |
| 25 | It was only on Aug. 21 that the CPSU had stated its opposition to the coup , when Ivashko demanded to see Gorbachev , because the party could not define its attitude to recent events without its leader . |
| 26 | There is an excellent library at HVA headquarters which can be utilised by post , and which does not close its doors to non-members as some other libraries do . |
| 27 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 28 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 29 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 30 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |