Example sentences of "not [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are still using the facsimile machine to notify your visitors , why not consider switching to GATES if you can ? |
| 2 | They have an equal right not to dread going to bed alone , or waking up alone ; there need be no loneliness on quiet Sundays . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the line , the aircraft all start from the same common stock , but as they progress the goodies are added or not added according to the order . |
| 4 | That suggests that a credit crunch is taking place , especially since banks are still under orders from the central bank not to increase lending to property companies beyond the overall rate of loan growth , which has itself been restricted since October . |
| 5 | In December 1630 he was silenced by William Laud [ q.v. ] for not catechizing according to the form laid down in the Prayer Book , and for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus . |
| 6 | Mr Cole appeared before the Board and acknowledged that the Coffin was not made according to his Contract whereupon he was strongly cautioned by the Chairman as to his future conduct . |
| 7 | Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , of course , this kind of sampling does not allow the deployment of statistical analysis in order to make inferences to population values from the sample , since the selection of cases within quota categories is not done according to random sampling procedures . |
| 9 | A prior , and misleading , assumption that the levels of direct taxation in Britain were very high has been eroded as levels of direct taxation have progressively been reduced in the 1980s , whilst the rates of indirect taxation — which are paid on goods and services and are therefore not levied according to income but according to expenditure — have increased . |
| 10 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 11 | Do not keep saying to yourself ‘ But how can it be like that ? ’ because you will get … into a blind alley from which no-one has yet escaped . ’ |
| 12 | " Do you not like talking to Egyptians ? " the chief asked . |
| 13 | The services of tableware always included numerous saucers which were invariably made of white silver ; they were not gilded owing to the constituents of the sauces , such as lemon juice , which would tarnish the gilded metal . |
| 14 | ‘ The world recovery is not going according to script ’ Geoffrey Dicks , a senior research fellow at the London Business School , told delegates at the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) Business outlook conference in London last month . |
| 15 | It quickly became evident that the attack was not going according to plan . |
| 16 | The palace is playing it all down but clearly this visit is not going according to plan . |
| 17 | Not used owing to venue size . |
| 18 | A couch had appeared on the balcony — had it always been there ? — and they were lying on it together , though he could not remember moving to it . |
| 19 | I can not remember getting to my feet . |
| 20 | He nodded , ‘ I can not remember driving to my home . |
| 21 | Though the table does not differentiate according to social class , it is evident that a higher proportion of unemployed manual than non-manual workers are among those receiving unemployment benefit . |
| 22 | But life , as Harry had learned , did not function according to the principles of wish-fulfilment . |
| 23 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 24 | Erm and I do not detect talking to colleagues say on the right of the party , any great enthusiasm for this measure in the way it 's presently er designed . |
| 25 | But they loved me and did not stop writing to me . |
| 26 | I had to concede it had made compelling reading , from an historical point of view , but I did not anticipate referring to its pages again , not in present circumstances . |
| 27 | No one then supposed , however , that the atoms were not moving according to strict laws . |
| 28 | That letter had unnerved her and now she could not face speaking to the man who had written it . |
| 29 | He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work . |
| 30 | After an alleged assault on her birthday in September 1989 she could not face returning to the Royal High and missed eight months of education before starting at a private school . |