Example sentences of "do not [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.

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31 The Act of 1988 did not govern access to quotas , but the registration of fishing vessels .
32 Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him .
33 Important though these duties were , they were fairly routine in character ; they did not bring Clanvow to the notice of a wider public .
34 Opposition to the Rada did not mean opposition to Ukrainian nationalism ( although the Rada was happy to make this deduction ) .
35 Nature did not intend calves to be born in the Autumn , and the problems are , therefore , greater .
36 I swear I did not send men to Godstowe , though I would love to know who did .
37 While there were fluctuations , it seemed officers in charge did not draw attention to the periods when dependency levels were lighter .
38 Just as Jesus did not draw attention to himself but set out to glorify his Father by passing on the Father s message to men ( 8:28 , 1 2:28,1 7:4 ) , so the Paraclete will not speak on his own authority … but will take what is mine and declare it to you' ( 16 : 14 ) .
39 The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent .
40 In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough .
41 But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room .
42 Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it .
43 This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected .
44 ‘ Well ? ’ said Calatin who was , truth to tell , becoming just the smallest bit afraid of this strange , golden-eyed creature , but who would not have dreamed of showing it , because you did not show discourtesy to guests , not if you wanted business from them .
45 Repeated gastric biopsies did not show progression to a higher grade lymphoma in any of the patients .
46 Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path .
47 He did not seek re-election to the Parliament of 1685 and supported the Revolution of 1688 , subscribing money to the new regime .
48 The unique design of this study allowed examination of outcome in an unoperated ear in a group of children who did not receive surgery to either the tonsils or adenoid .
49 But where thousands of claimants did not receive repayments to which they were entitled because of errors of local officials the Court of Appeal held that the Minister was not obliged to carry out a fullscale review of files .
50 Mr Burr said the rump of the shares on offer would be aimed at the 11,000 members of the club as Stock Exchange rules did not allow shares to be allotted to them directly .
51 Residents of the City of Westminster , while falling into the catchment areas of three different health districts , did not have recourse to admissions to any long-stay hospitals after the closure of Banstead in 1986 .
52 Those people who did not have access to that sort of platform took their protests onto the streets and it was here that Ian Paisley and his followers earned their public reputation .
53 Deirdre Bair did not have access to these letters at the time of writing , though the euphemistic terms she uses to describe de Beauvoir 's relationships anticipate this recent confirmation .
54 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 .
55 All radiographs were interpreted by a single radiologist ( JK ) , who did not have access to the clinical data .
56 The ICRC confirmed that political prisoners numbered 1,268 , although their representatives did not have access to prisons run by the state security services .
57 It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave .
58 They found this unsatisfactory because ‘ it did not direct attention to governmental manipulation of transnational relations … [ and they have ] grown progressively more interested in the interaction between governments and transnational society and in transnational coalitions among subunits of governments ’ ( Keohane and Nye , 1973 , p vjj ) .2
59 On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint .
60 H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis .
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