Example sentences of "to [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the case of the " jocular comment " , the speaker 's switch to Creole does not provoke a Creole response . |
| 2 | But there is perhaps a more fundamental problem here : establishing personality traits or types that are related to crime does not constitute an explanation ; it is the way such traits and types come about , and how they lead to crime , that provides that . |
| 3 | Yet in practice justification by an imperative does not benefit from this logical advantage , is very much open to doubt ( indeed invites it , without a first principle such as Kant 's Categorical Imperative to save from appealing from imperative to imperative in an infinite regress ) , while the appeal to pleasure does not seem vulnerable to ethical scepticism at all . |
| 4 | The Vendor in relation to the Business is not and has not since the Balance sheet Date been engaged in any legal proceedings ( civil or criminal ) or arbitration as plaintiff , defendant or otherwise howsoever ( except as plaintiff in normal debt collection and in respect of which the aggregate amount of debts due to the Vendor and for which the Vendor is engaged or likely to become engaged in proceedings prior to Completion does not exceed £500 ) and there are no circumstances likely to lead to any legal proceedings or arbitration ( whether against the Vendor or by the Vendor any third party ) . |
| 5 | The threat that the sociology of knowledge posed to philosophy did not apply equally to all types of philosophy . |
| 6 | The fact that the changes will give us a stronger , better Bank and a better place in which to work does n't make their impact any easier to bear . |
| 7 | Merely continuing to work did not indicate volens . |
| 8 | However , after the birth of her second child returning to work did n't work quite so well . |
| 9 | Movement from scene to scene does not use scrolling as per Lucasfilms , but requires that you completely leave one location and then enter another — this is not as smooth as other game systems , but Sierra have refined it to a fine art . |
| 10 | But lower taxes and a prudent approach to borrowing do not mean public spending fall ; quite the reverse . |
| 11 | The fact that the exaggerated acid response to gastrin did not resolve after eradication of H pylori does not exclude it being due to trophic effects of H pylori induced hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa . |
| 12 | Yet so far they had not prayed ; Amanda Fergusson appeared still to be arguing with her father ; while the God she had taken to proclaiming did not sound the kind of God who would lightly forgive the Colonel 's obstinate sinning against the light . |
| 13 | While the rules as to admissibility do not apply , the value of any particular evidence , and the weight to be given to it , will be the same in arbitration as in hearings in open court . |
| 14 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |
| 15 | Our commitment to quality does not stop at the brewery gate , it follows through to the customer . |
| 16 | The fact that he may have gone to ground does not mean he wo n't attack again , and they want to catch him before he does . |
| 17 | So what I 've written is babies prior to birth do not control their temperature , they have the ability to control their temperature because that 's a little space in the brain , but they do n't need to use it . |
| 18 | Resort to logic does not seem to help in ascertaining the distinction . |
| 19 | " Going to church does n't make people any better — just look at Mrs X down the road . |
| 20 | This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents . |
| 21 | The LIFESPAN username supplied to PI does not have access to all modules . |
| 22 | The LIFESPAN username supplied to PI does not have sufficient privilege to modify some or all of the modules . |
| 23 | The evidence to date does not suggest that there is a substantial benefit but further studies are awaited . |
| 24 | The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible . |
| 25 | The inquiry reported that the evidence which they had received to date did not prove conclusively that such activities had taken place , but ‘ in some instances circumstantial evidence in support of the complaint has been very strong ’ ( NCCL , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Reliance was placed on Director of Public Prosecutions v. Ellis [ 1973 ] 1 W.L.R. 722 , where it was held that the fact that two accused persons had been prosecuted to conviction did not mean that the purposes of Part I of the Act , namely securing compliance with and detecting evasion of the Act , were spent ; and that accordingly it was still open to the authorities to employ their powers to obtain information relative to the same transaction from another person . |
| 27 | After dismissing an argument that the doctrine as to release did not apply to a judgment debt , Collins L.J . |
| 28 | However , unlike the uses seen with have , the to infinitive does not evoke an unrealized objective or goal , but rather an event which is actually accomplished . |
| 29 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 30 | Out in the Mojave Desert , the movie world 's attention to detail did n't wash as well . |