Example sentences of "not [vb infin] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 2 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 3 | Pension funds must gain approval from the Superannuation Funds Office ( SFO ) — part of the Inland Revenue — to gain the tax advantages relevant to pension funds ( although this does not relate to protection for pension scheme members ) . |
| 4 | Dickinson argues for a change in the organisation of the industry as chronologically earlier pairs show less variation than later examples ; this may only be a change in ability and need not relate to changes in the medium used to make models . |
| 5 | Suppose , now , that the shed was clearly ban of everything and A's suspicions did not relate to theft in the shed . |
| 6 | companies as defined in companies legislation to account for finance costs which do not relate to revenue in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 7 | On 6 October the Scottish Sunday Mail revealed in an excellent piece of investigative journalism that , in a draft letter to the Secretary of State for Energy , the Secretary of State for Scotland had made it clear that he would not object to fuel from an Iraqi nuclear reactor , damaged during the Gulf war , being sent to Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 8 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 9 | ( Except , of course , that the type can not be more general than the lexical item used to refer to it : this apple can not refer to fruit in general . ) |
| 10 | The core of the difficulty faced by duty-based controls lies in the fact that ‘ profit maximisation ’ , even ignoring questions of time-scale , does not refer to behaviour with any definite , objectively identifiable , content . |
| 11 | The proposal does not refer to sponsorship as such , but it does state , in convoluted Euro-language , that ‘ a ban should therefore be imposed on such indirect forms of advertising which while not actually mentioning the tobacco product , use trade marks , emblems , symbols or other distinctive elements associated with tobacco products … |
| 12 | Unlike the situation in our discussion of line , staff and functional authority in Chapter 21 , these following chapters specifically do not refer to issues of authority , but only to the specialised role , or function , carried out by particular groups of employees , in this case in marketing , production or personnel departments . |
| 13 | ‘ … Dr Hamdy 's report did not refer to deaths from jaundiced livers and kidneys . ’ |
| 14 | She hoped that she did not appear to others like a worthy cause . |
| 15 | Births of high order ( third or fourth ) should not occur to women under age 20 . |
| 16 | The possible paradox of having Branson as both his manager and the head of his record company did not occur to Oldfield until 1976 . |
| 17 | Eleven does not begin to rate in the surf numbers game . |
| 18 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 19 | He admitted the offences but did not return to court for sentencing . |
| 20 | He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all . |
| 21 | Thousands more shut today and do not return to work until January 7 . |
| 22 | It is likely that William of Warelwast revealed an even more outrageous decision : if Anselm did not return to England on the king 's terms , the king would seize his lands and revenues . |
| 23 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 24 | It was while he was still at Seletar that England declared war on Germany on September 3 , 1939 and he did not return to England until February , 1940 . |
| 25 | Lucy Baldwin did not return to England until 12 October . |
| 26 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 27 | He did not return to London until early September , leaving his subordinates , especially John Churchill , recently created first Earl of Marlborough , to complete the subjugation of Ireland . |
| 28 | A GAMBLER who made a 1,000-to-one bet that Christ would not return to Earth by October is to sue bookie William Hill for not paying up . |
| 29 | In January 1931 he left the Shadow Cabinet on the issue and did not return to communion with the official Conservative leadership until after the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 30 | You see , we know that if the Hispaniola does not return to Bristol by the end of August , a rescue ship will be sent to look for us . |