Example sentences of "not [verb] to [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this girl she 's got two children at and Nora 's got in with her , but her husband is an Iranian so she goes over to Iran every now and again , she 's got a key , I said I 'm not phoning to bloody Iran for you Nora . |
| 2 | Not apologising to other people for the behaviour of the primary sufferer . |
| 3 | Yet this radical worker , formed in the revolutionary school of before 1848 , was to make his mark on labour history as the cautious , moderate and above all efficient administrator of the greatest of the ‘ new model ’ skilled unions , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ; and was both a practising Anglican churchman and ‘ in politics a sound and consistent liberal , not given to political quackery in any form ’ . |
| 4 | This may be unfair on her , but it probably helps the Community to have Mrs Cresson threatening to block Japanese exports if ‘ reciprocal access ’ is not given to European goods in Japan . |
| 5 | We 'd never produce budgets without erm having thoroughly discussed them with the Treasurer and saying to the Treasurer 's Department of the County Council , which is a very conservative department I have to say ( with a small c ) ; it 's not given to wild flurries of excitement and imagination . |
| 6 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 7 | They were not given to silly pranks at any time , let alone a quarter to two on Sunday morning . |
| 8 | ‘ Trust in God … is not taught to human beings by God . |
| 9 | ( All these findings are averages and do not relate to single pieces of work . ) |
| 10 | Attempts have been made to control parasitic bronchitis by grazing systems designed to ensure that young susceptible cattle are not exposed to large numbers of infective larvae . |
| 11 | Two principal ( albeit contradictory ) difficulties arose : the belief of the governments of some member states ( including the UK ) that any such procedure should be voluntary , and the fact that Vredeling was not limited to collective representation of employees through trade unions . |
| 12 | I am vulnerable to the inference here that my inquiry has vested interests ; that because I am an African-American and a writer I stand to benefit in ways not limited to intellectual fulfilment from this line of questioning . |
| 13 | And and a funny thing is , it 's not limited to social class within Holland itself . |
| 14 | Officials let it be understood that Turkey would not object to Kurdish autonomy in a federal Iraq , but Özal , interviewed on March 29 , said that the Kurdish leaders " were clearly told they should definitely not consider a separate state " . |
| 15 | The problems , however , were not confined to violent upheavals of this kind . |
| 16 | Such diverse construction methods are not confined to particular types of building but rather reflect questions of cost and regional traditions which appear to have been relatively pronounced in Roman Britain . |
| 17 | Similarly , bleeding from oesophageal varices that have not responded to repeated sessions of injection sclerotherapy is a further indication for surgical intervention . |
| 18 | Although he did not refer to sentencing practices as such , the traditional English approach to sentencing certainly provides an excellent example of Weber 's khadi justice which ‘ knows no rational ‘ rules of decision ’ and eschews the giving of reasons for decisions . |
| 19 | Because of this , it is very important not to talk to other people about anyone you know who has HIV or AIDS — unless that person has said it is alright for other people to know . |
| 20 | The point is that past deficits do not matter to serious players of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings game . |
| 21 | And because aggression is not related to other traits of personality like being cooperative , friendly , or trustworthy ; the horse may be a paragon of virtue to ride . |
| 22 | When Community rules are thus applied by the national courts , they fall to be interpreted , not according to domestic canons of construction , but according to Community methods of interpretation . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not going to bandy words with you . |
| 24 | Unix Solutions director , Quing Tsang , adds that its agreement with Sun does not run to supporting software on the Mountain View , California-based company 's kit , only on its own , at present . |
| 25 | Mr MacSharry has insisted that he will not return to Irish politics after his Brussels term ends , but intends to farm in his native Sligo . |
| 26 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |
| 27 | He does however describe language as a form in a constant process of evolution that is not tied to corresponding changes in its meaning or vice versa . |
| 28 | I think the only drawback in that was , it 's been discuss , that , if you are dealing with money here you are expected to be , but I ca n't see that 'll make any difference because we 're not tied to National cost at the bazaar are we ? |
| 29 | Perhaps we could start by banishing that anachronism with which otherwise good arguments have been blemished , and not refer to mass consumption of manufactured goods before the twentieth century . |
| 30 | ( No. 2 ) it is possible ( though by no means certain ) that threat of a breach of a penal statute does not amount to unlawful means for the purposes of intimidation unless the statute itself gives rise to a civil remedy . |