Example sentences of "not [vb infin] to school " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 2 | A situation exists where citizens have to alter their behaviour to ensure their safety ; children can not walk to school , it is too dangerous to ride a bicycle , and the elderly or disabled can not cross the road quickly enough . |
| 3 | Many of them bought them and would not walk to school in the mornings without one in their Bart Simpson satchels . |
| 4 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 5 | In the meantime , the vast majority of Indian children either do not go to school or do not reach the end of primary school . |
| 6 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 7 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 8 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 9 | The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories . |
| 10 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 11 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 12 | His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school … |
| 13 | The problem is especially great with the over 16 's who do not know English and who can not go to school . |
| 14 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 15 | Yeah , but I might not go to school tomorrow . |
| 16 | They do not come to school as empty vessels . |
| 17 | Parents were told last night that their children should not come to school due to the appalling standard of cleanliness resulting from the employment of contract cleaners . |
| 18 | The children could not get to school and the parents could not get to work . |