Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department . |
| 32 | It has announced its intention not to borrow and therefore will not expose investors to levels of high gearing . |
| 33 | Mosquitoes can not transmit HIV to people ( and the same applies to lice , fleas , ticks and bed bugs ) . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age . |
| 37 | The Act of 1988 did not govern access to quotas , but the registration of fishing vessels . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | To this day Girls who worked in the 1920s would not consider others to be proper Tillers unless they had done the inevitable Paris stint . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | The examples we illustrate should not tempt readers to ‘ generalise from the particular ’ . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The example auditors ' reports given in the exposure draft are unlikely to help narrow the expectations gap because they do not include references to the inherent limitations of financial reporting and , in particular , to the need to recognise that the balance sheet is not intended to be a statement of a company 's net worth and that there can not be a guarantee that the company will survive as a going concern . |
| 45 | Please note that EURO DISNEYLAND does not guarantee entry to visitors wishing to purchase tickets on the day . |
| 46 | ‘ We can not win consent to a technocratic solution . |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 ) . |
| 51 | I am not ambitious , I do not seek answers to large questions , she would say . |
| 52 | He did not seek re-election to the Parliament of 1685 and supported the Revolution of 1688 , subscribing money to the new regime . |
| 53 | Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals . |
| 54 | Even if it were true that the war is over and the Serbs have won , victory will not bring stability to Bosnia & Hercegovina . |
| 55 | But they do not bring air to the underlying issues . |
| 56 | The Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , said in Amman yesterday that the Taif deal would not bring peace to Lebanon and that , although he did not intend to block it , he would not accept it either . |
| 57 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 58 | Important though these duties were , they were fairly routine in character ; they did not bring Clanvow to the notice of a wider public . |
| 59 | Unlike its plainer cousin , it will not bring shame to the wearer by wilting or drooping on the crucial day . |
| 60 | A landlord who retains control over common parts of a building such as the stairs and puts an exclusion clause in the lease , can not exclude liability to the tenant 's visitors by virtue of this clause . |