Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ .
2 All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp .
3 The Statute of Limitations itself does not affect the right to payment , but only affects the procedure for enforcing it in the event of dispute or refusal to pay .
4 Er I think we should also assume that the regional er budgetholders will not make a contribution to any costs we might incur cos I do n't think any budget they 'll have will be intended to cater for er you know , paying people 's wages for them getting unpaid time off .
5 A company can not make a loan to a director of the company ( see s. 330 ) .
6 Why not make a visit to the International Motor Show , the British International Antiques Fair , or any of the numerous public exhibitions covering everything from photography to holidays and travel , and classic cars to boats and caravans .
7 Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties .
8 Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election .
9 Older teenagers do not want a mother to be yearning over them day and night , even when several hundred miles lie between them .
10 ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’
11 I quote from one such document without giving my source because I do not want the firm to be identified :
12 The majority of the Soviet population , particularly in Russia and the Central Asian republics , certainly did not want the Union to be eliminated — they wanted its democratic transformation .
13 ( However , it must be said that even here , the seller would probably not want the contract to be terminated too quickly or easily by the buyer , as the seller has more to lose by being denied the chance to perform and get full payment for the supply of his goods . )
14 Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away .
15 But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling .
16 Councillor John Wilson said he did not want the guidelines to be mandatory .
17 The court will not want the defendant to be liable indefinitely for damage and will impose a cut off point beyond which the damage is said to be too remote .
18 He obtained her signature but did not explain the document to her and she signed it without understanding it .
19 If you are holidaying in a hot climate , do not expose the camcorder to the sun for long periods , and take a neutral density filter along with you if the light is likely to be particularly brilliant ( sunlight on snow , for example ) to avoid the risk of spoiling shots through over exposure .
20 Do not expose the camcorder to the sun for long periods .
21 With respect , there is much to be said for the minority view expressed by Lord Pearce which is based upon certainty in transactions and would not expose the parties to shifts in scientific knowledge right up to the time of trial .
22 The term does not convey the extent to which the different elements in the package depend on each other for the viability of the whole .
23 In any event , the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers .
24 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country .
25 In the present case there is no binding authority upon this court , and I do not consider the law to be clear .
26 It may well be that the Jewish leaders did not consider the event to be a trial but more of an interrogation to see if there was enough evidence to take Jesus to the Roman Governor .
27 Given that they are working with a small sample and that the likelihood ratio test is a large sample test , ADD do not consider the evidence to be strong enough to reject the null hypothesis .
28 They have done a wonderful job of creating crime , but they will still not recognise the link to which I have referred .
29 This minor disadvantage to the tenant does not outweigh the advantage to the tenant in being able to initiate the determination of the rent .
30 The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain .
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