Example sentences of "[noun] to a [noun] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Under the transitional provisions , where , on 9 March 1992 , employer-related investments that existed on 17 February 1992 exceeded the 5% limit , the fund in question may be required to reduce its net investment in the lease to a level not exceeding 5% of its resources on the earliest date on which payment can be enforced ( assuming the agreement was effected prior to 17 February 1992 ) .
2 But they do not decide the issue because many of the Catholic scholars listed may have experienced the frustration of censorship to a degree not experienced by their Protestant contemporaries .
3 The sheet explains what an NMT is ; what arrangements apply when supplying an NMT to a person not registered for VAT for removal to another EC country ; what happens if a new vehicle is to be used on UK roads before it is removed to another EC country ; and what to do if obtaining an NMT in the UK for removal to another EC country .
4 Painstakingly , with meticulous attention to detail , Tethlis rebuilt the Elf forces to a strength not seen since the time of Aenarion .
5 The Belfast /a/ system varies considerably in terms of length , height , backness , rounding and diphthongization , and shows variation to a degree not attested in standard accounts of English phonology : if we include pre-velar items ( as in table 4.2 ) , the range ( in place of articulation ) is from mid-front to low-mid back .
6 A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure .
7 This line did not meet with the approval of the IRA hardliners , who have escalated the violence in Northern Ireland over the last year to an intensity not seen since the worst days of the 1970s .
8 Young people are thought to have imbibed this dependency culture to an extent not found in their parents and grandparents — a product of the high rates of social expenditure of the 1960s and 70s .
9 Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury .
10 Chapter One considers aspects of this paradoxical deregulatory/reregulation phenomenon : on the one hand , the transformation of formerly compartmentalized financial institutions into virtually open-ended financial conglomerates offering a range of financial services to an extent not known before ; on the other hand , the search for an appropriate regulatory solution to the now accentuated problem of both conflicts of duty and interest and the possible misuse of inside information within financial conglomerates .
11 What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before .
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