Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 2 | Satisfied with attending to the symptoms of the economy 's problems , the government has not applied itself to tackling some of their causes . |
| 3 | ‘ I overheard her say to her friend that she had lost something , but she has not reported it to me . |
| 4 | The school is the type that has not adapted itself to alternative , non-academic needs and which , in general , is not sensitive to the fact that pupils are people with as much right as anyone else to be respected . |
| 5 | Mr. Wilson : The Hon. Gentleman has not added anything to my previous comment . |
| 6 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 7 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 8 | You would not say that it was a part of anything around you — it does not attach itself to things or become a particular quality that they have . |
| 9 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 10 | At least he states his beliefs as they really are , and does not mould them to electoral advantage . |
| 11 | Remember also that a vocational degree does not bind you to one particular field of employment . |
| 12 | Although Halliday does not commit himself to a functional definition of literary language , he does recognize that different kinds of literary writing may foreground different functions . |
| 13 | Conversely , taking articles with a local authority does not commit you to a career in local government . |
| 14 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 15 | She does not want you to be tried by the government . ’ |
| 16 | He is looking for an easy rapport , but he does not want it to be too easy . |
| 17 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 18 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 19 | Analysis that is performed only occasionally or perhaps in one batch does not lend itself to the statistical interpretation underlying conventional QC systems . |
| 20 | There is some disagreement about the size of the informal proletariat , which is not surprising given that its informal nature does not lend itself to the gathering of statistic , but most commentators see it representing about 40–60 per cent of the economically active population . |
| 21 | The Rottweiler is basically a calm , confident and courageous dog with a self-assured aloofness that does not lend itself to immediate and indiscriminate friendships . |
| 22 | Article 3(4) areas — zone Defavorisee hors montagne — a zone comprised mainly of land that can not be cultivated and which does not lend itself to intensive production . |
| 23 | But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action . |
| 24 | The evidence , then , does not lend itself to the ‘ Labour must abandon its class roots ’ thesis of electoral advancement . |
| 25 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 26 | The system of health district administration does not lend itself to local initiatives , since the districts do not relate to any natural geographic catchment areas . |
| 27 | Moreover , ‘ unknown ’ heroin use does not lend itself to the more usual sampling procedures such as random sampling , saturation sampling and dense sampling . |
| 28 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 29 | It does not lend itself to the earlier analysis of symbolism which identified distinct abstract signifiers and concrete signifieds , since it simultaneously operates at both levels . |
| 30 | Such a position does not lend itself to anthropological analysis , since one of the objectives of the discipline is to learn something of value from the practices of the people one is studying . |