Example sentences of "not [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why not stay to lunch ? |
| 2 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 3 | The top-security ‘ dispersal prisons ’ are frequently not filled to capacity , while overcrowding is concentrated in local prisons ( which predominantly house remand prisoners and those on short-term sentences ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I would not want to slave-drive you as early as this actual moment . ’ |
| 6 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 7 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
| 8 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 9 | I phoned your office on 6 April and left a message asking you or your colleagues to let me know the position but I have not heard to date . |
| 10 | , writes : MY MOTHER , many years ago , used to sing a song about a miner , warned by his daughter not to go to work because she dreamed of a disaster . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's usually me imploring you not to go to work . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 13 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 14 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 15 | It 's just summat not to go to court in n it ? |
| 16 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 17 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 18 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
| 19 | Much of the International 's efforts were directed at reinforcing the resolution of European socialists not to go to war with each other . |
| 20 | She decided not to go to communion . |
| 21 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 22 | The sun shone warm and the air was now very pure : a calm reflective day , not given to laughter . |
| 23 | She said that in any case , ‘ she was not given to crying ’ . |
| 24 | The Martians were , if we may venture a fanciful interpretation of their character from the gantries , the dry vats , oubliettes and occluded vaults , the forthright aspect of their stairways , gutters and conduits , as of the famous canals themselves , a serious and resolute people , thorough in their undertakings , not given to digression or frivolity . |
| 25 | Somewhere in her thirties , long abandoned by a useless husband , and with two small children to bring up , she was not given to self-analysis . |
| 26 | A sleepy old town is Devizes Not given to chaos and crisis The major event 's A canoe race in Lent With stiff backs and sore bums as prizes ! |
| 27 | If to tax and to please , no more than to love and be wise , is not given to man , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on seeking to do the impossible . |
| 28 | Jazz gave little away , and was not given to complaint . |
| 29 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 30 | Even when whole batches of these ended up on sale rails Laura was not given to tergiversation . |