Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 2 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 3 | He realises that he does not have to conform to the laws which have been set down by his community . |
| 4 | At this stage , we have an opportunity to ensure that the legislation will allow their voices to be heard through formal channels so that they do not have to resort to the usual practice of writing to the appropriate organisations . |
| 5 | The tide of ideas on the Left was flowing in the Communists ' favour and they did not have to resort to the often artificial tactics of " penetration " used since the early 1920s . |
| 6 | But we do not have to refer to the para-normal , our understanding of art and poetry and our experiences in mysticism are developments of new senses . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 8 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 9 | If Cooke P. had been aware of the true position he could not have denied to the petitioner an appeal to the Board as of right on the ground that the cancellation issue remained alive . |
| 10 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 11 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 12 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 13 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 14 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 15 | In fact , by the year 2000 the number of school leavers will not have returned to the 1970 level and is predicted to continue to fall to an all-time low in 1993/4(2) . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Without him I would not have got to the Friends ’ School as a boarder . |
| 17 | He was just pointing out little do 's and don't 's that might not have occurred to the eager amateur . |
| 18 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 19 | And the successful formalization of data can open up questions for research , and types of evidence , which would not have occurred to the research community without the effort to present the data in computer-friendly form . |
| 20 | Doctors do not have to stick to the schedule fee but can choose to bill the Medicare administration directly , rather than the patient . |
| 21 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 22 | We are all for safer streets if we do not have to contribute to the cost . |
| 23 | Like SunSoft ( UX No 414 ) , Cunningham says companies that might not have agreed to the effort in 1991 or 1992 are certain to be driven into the arms of the ABI 1993 by the impending Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 24 | 3 The quickness of this action is because the impulses do not have to travel to the brain , only the spinal cord . |
| 25 | Patients are seen within one week , do not have to travel to the hospital , and , if requiring surgery , are operated on promptly and privately . |
| 26 | So they do n't have to go to an advertising agency or a graphics designer to have it all drawn up we 'll do that for them . |
| 27 | He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England . |
| 28 | Mind , I stayed at the house and did n't have to go to the graveside , but I can still see the procession of people . |
| 29 | But you do n't have to go to the farm in person : good butchers all over the country will be selling Derek 's bronze birds — call the number below to find out whether there is a stockist in your area . |
| 30 | No , because we do n't have to go to the legal office or to school to teach for 50 hours a week in between ’ . |