Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 2 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 3 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 4 | It did not make sense to her . |
| 5 | The graveside note about missing her ‘ Darling Daddy ’ did not make sense to anyone who knew the family , since Diana rarely saw her father . |
| 6 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 7 | This was said to be ‘ the first Peruvian book of poetry that does not make tribute to a colonial aesthetic . ’ |
| 8 | One criticism of third normal form is that by making reference to other normal forms , hidden dependencies may not be revealed , BCNF does not make reference to other normal forms . |
| 9 | Although the Act does not make reference to the current climate of opinion about sexual explicitness , juries in obscenity trials are enjoined to keep in mind the current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 10 | Stapleton took care that Sir Henry did not make love to her . |
| 11 | ‘ I did not make love to her , Leonora , ’ he said forcibly . |
| 12 | Charley did not make love to her , and he ought . |
| 13 | Peter and Paul do not want Mummy to be ill or to have HC themselves , but at the moment there is no sure way to know for everyone . |
| 14 | We should not grant recognition to the Baltic states or any other So Soviet Republics unless they guarantee human rights ? |
| 15 | Equally , the rules and practices of the SRO should not restrict competition to an extent which is greater than necessary for the protection of investors . |
| 16 | As well as these apprehensions it was also considered that the extension and development of the social services was more in keeping with collectivist principles and would not restrict benefit to families with children . |
| 17 | People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age . |
| 18 | The Act of 1988 did not govern access to quotas , but the registration of fishing vessels . |
| 19 | However , the Act of 1988 does not govern access to quotas but the registration of fishing vessels and therefore affects access to all sea-fishing activities , including fishing for species not subject to quotas . |
| 20 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 21 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis . |
| 22 | So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature . |
| 23 | Please note that EURO DISNEYLAND does not guarantee entry to visitors wishing to purchase tickets on the day . |
| 24 | ‘ We can not win consent to a technocratic solution . |
| 25 | They found this unsatisfactory because ‘ it did not direct attention to governmental manipulation of transnational relations … [ and they have ] grown progressively more interested in the interaction between governments and transnational society and in transnational coalitions among subunits of governments ’ ( Keohane and Nye , 1973 , p vjj ) .2 |
| 26 | ‘ Legislatures in France , Germany and Britain do not initiate legislation to any significant degree , they are peripherally involved in the budgetary process and party cohesion and institutional limitations serve to restrict the scope of powerful scrutiny of executive actions by the legislatures ’ ( Page 1985 , p. 89 ) . |
| 27 | Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future . |
| 28 | Gravelle ( 1985 ) points to an implicit assumption which , when relaxed , gives rise to one of them : " that either no managerial effort is required to reduce costs or that such effort does not yield disutility to managers ' ( p. 115 ) . |
| 29 | He did not seek re-election to the Parliament of 1685 and supported the Revolution of 1688 , subscribing money to the new regime . |
| 30 | Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals . |