Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depositors ' funds are placed with HM Treasury , authorised banks , local authorities and building societies in Great Britain ; Tyndall does not lend to other customers . |
| 2 | Mr Ridley said in 1987 that it could not lend to those who seemed unlikely to be able to service their debts — He went too far : technically , it could . |
| 3 | He was not reacting to this latest development , but to something that was going on outside . |
| 4 | There may be a limited exemption for non-profit-making bodies and foundations , provided that the data is used only ‘ as part of their legitimate aims ’ and ‘ on condition that they relate only those members and corresponding members who have consented to being included therein and that they are not communicated to third parties ’ . |
| 5 | Our minds wander to an empty place that does not compare to this natural extravaganza . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , the judge had not referred to any specific provision of the Code . |
| 7 | A revised merger proposal between UB and Imperial , which involved disposing of Imperial 's Golden Wonder subsidiary , thus reducing market share in the snack foods market , was not referred to MMC and hence both bids were allowed to proceed . |
| 8 | Nor are they decentralised in the true meaning of the word : powers belonging to the centre are not devolved to peripheral firms . |
| 9 | I 'd like to , they may , they may not want to sixteen . |
| 10 | She had n't told her grandmother about Buzz 's accident ; she did not want to further distress Elinor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not apologising to other people for the behaviour of the primary sufferer . |
| 13 | My mind had not adjusted to this new sight , though . |
| 14 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 15 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 16 | Even if he or she does not answer to this title directly , there is usually one member of staff who has responsibility for supporting and assisting qualified staff with their continued professional education . |
| 17 | By contrast , for Darwin as a genealogical ( ancestry and descent ) theorist of historical biogeography , resemblances and differences are not traced to developmental advances , but to ramifying migrations and adaptive divergences from common ancestors that are more or less remote from their diverse descendants in time , place and character . |
| 18 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |
| 19 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 20 | A decision yesterday by regional councillors not to object to 500 acres of tree planting at Burnfoot farm , between Selkirk and Hawick , was described as extraordinary by the campaigners . |
| 21 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 22 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 23 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 24 | They had stumbled upon my claim to fame , a gift not given to many . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Second , the male family members , because they are male , are given a credibility — and hence power — to influence non admission not given to female members . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She flew with Maurice Dornier in the Do X flying-boat and enjoyed , it seems , many other privileges not given to other correspondents . |
| 29 | ‘ Such talents and indomitable spirit are not given to all of us . |
| 30 | Clearly assistance is not given to all kin invariably and whatever the circumstances , but are there certain relationships where it is given almost automatically ? |