Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1981 ) , who are able to alter the appearance of their homes , tend not to use modernist styles , which , in any case , do not lend themselves to such appropriation . |
| 2 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
| 3 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 4 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 5 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 6 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 7 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 8 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 9 | He does not misuse freedom , and he does not expect us to either . |
| 10 | Unlike the Full Plans method , the use of the Building Notice procedure does not entitle you to any documentary proof from your council that your proposal is satisfactory , or that the work will be accepted by the Buildings Control Officer who is required to inspect the work as it proceeds . |
| 11 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 12 | Once I speak with her , tell her the truth , she will surely not force me to this marriage . ’ |
| 13 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 14 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 15 | Sometimes this was easier and cheaper , especially as increasing population could outpace workhouse provision ; sometimes it was because the parish officers discriminated in their application of the " test " and did not apply it to all kinds of claimant . |
| 16 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 17 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 18 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 19 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 20 | Your investigations , Mister Cowley , have not led us to any further evidence to confirm or clarify the intentions of these men ? , |
| 21 | Kaifu promised to make efforts to reduce his country 's large trade surplus with South Korea — estimated to have exceeded US$6,000 million in 1990 — but he did not commit himself to any specific measures to achieve this . |
| 22 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 23 | Imogen refused to go with him and would not allow you to either . ’ |
| 24 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 25 | Wordsworth 's was a face which did not assign itself to any class . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it recognized that because it could not supply such high quality weaponry as the United States , and because communism did not commend itself to most Arab regimes , the Soviet-Arab bond was bound to remain weaker than the American-Israeli one . |