Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholder , investment analyst and press criticism of Philips Analytical 's performance over the past two years — not all justified according to Peter Jackson , regional manager for northern Europe — led the company to take a long , hard look at itself . |
| 2 | By contrast , the presence of a relatively small number of unions — even if not entirely structured according to the principle of one per industry at least covering large sections of industry — appears to be associated with markedly fewer inter-union jurisdictional disputes . |
| 3 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 4 | The preferences of officials not only vary according to the type of agency ( delivery , regulatory , transfer , contract and control ) . |
| 5 | This operation is another example of how things do not always go according to plan , but with a little luck and a lot of hard work a successful conclusion can be reached . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 7 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 8 | That was his first mistake : he could not now avoid talking to me . |
| 9 | The matter of fiction , in any case , given that it aims at realism , does not readily divide according to the classic view . |