Example sentences of "not [vb infin] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I would not want to slave-drive you as early as this actual moment . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | They do not relate to assessment arrangements , although these are covered in the Working Group 's Report . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it could be said that this type of objection does not relate to reasonableness but is concerned with breach . |
| 8 | Suppose , now , that the shed was clearly ban of everything and A's suspicions did not relate to theft in the shed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Warner v. Browne ( 1807 ) 8 East 165 there was an agreement to lease at a rent of £40 per annum and it was agreed that the landlord , W. Warner , should not raise the rent nor turn out the tenant ‘ so long as the rent is duly paid quarterly , and he does not expose to sale or sell any article that may be injurious to W. Warner in his business . ’ |
| 11 | Personally , I would not object to payment but it would be interesting to see if all users would contribute . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The men disappeared behind a distant quayside shed , but she dared not trust to luck and hid behind a winch . |
| 14 | Patients do not need to home monitor every day when their diabetes is stable but rather two or three days a week testing three or four times during the day . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Their relationships and marriage alliances did not conduce to peace , but they commonly gave the warfare of the period the appearance of civil war , even though the rank and file of the soldiers can hardly have felt the bond which united the leaders on both sides . |
| 17 | On March 14 President Félix Houphouët-Boigny warned that he would not yield to pressure to release Gbagbo and the other opposition figures . |
| 18 | The government would not yield to pressure , she promised . |
| 19 | The government would not yield to pressure , she promised . |
| 20 | Yesterday , in a letter to the GP signatories , Mr Fallon says he did not refer to fundholding practices but believes they have benefitted from controlling their budgets . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | General practitioners can determine the pattern of later health care delivery in Alzheimer 's disease and may not refer to specialist outpatient care . |
| 24 | I foresee violence , but did not refer to blood . |
| 25 | In the process the essay will attempt to explain why a nationalist movement did not ascend to power earlier , and the reasons for its success when it did . |
| 26 | A gradual recognition by the parents that their approach does not appear to work is necessary before they will try another approach . |
| 27 | Kurlovich was convicted and banned in 1984 for smuggling anabolic steroids , but returned to the sport two years later , convinced ‘ drugs do not contribute to sport ’ . |
| 28 | Thus Reddy concludes that gathered firewood , upon which three-quarters of the people of Pura depend , does not contribute to deforestation . |
| 29 | However , what is most apparent generally in the provisions described is that deaf children are unable to interact , do not contribute to class lessons through speech , are subjected to distorted and exaggerated mouthings by teachers and pupils in order to convey specific information ( i.e. not natural language interaction ) and are unlikely to have secure peer group friendships . |
| 30 | Leapor , a poor woman , could not dress to advantage ; indeed , her employers ' low regard for her as a servant is partly related to her appearance . |