Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 2 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 3 | If you do not want to go to the police , ring Sunday Life on Belfast 331133 ext 4316 and your message will be passed on to the McDermotts . |
| 4 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 5 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 6 | I do not want to return to a world in which the lights go out , there is no money in the country , we have to turn to the International Monetary Fund , and investment in the leading industries has to be cut back . |
| 7 | Rain did not want to explain to the others . |
| 8 | I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour . |
| 9 | Oh something that Dr did you not want to speak to the team about John ? |
| 10 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 11 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 12 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 13 | A contract of hire is a species of bailment and although it is readily distinguishable from sale in that general property is not intended to pass to the hirer , there are important public policy issues in a consumer hire context , which dictate that the owner be subject to similar liability to that visited upon the seller . |
| 14 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 15 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 16 | Thus the argument is that the victim 's right to autonomy and freedom of sexual choice does not need to yield to the principle that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; it would be so simple ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the man and woman ) for the man to ascertain the facts here . |
| 17 | However , in such cases one will often not need to progress to the follow-up sessions of therapy which would be needed by those others who are trying to overcome a particular problem . |
| 18 | They do not need to belong to the same phase . |
| 19 | Kopyion had tried to persuade him that he did not need to come to the hoverport . |
| 20 | Supporting cast DJ Renegade and secondary shouter Blue Eyes provide hardy back-up ; previous single ‘ Mind Of An Ordinary Citizen ’ , the breakneck ‘ Forward ’ and a dangerous tear through manifesto track ‘ Survival Of The Hardest Working ’ to close , are the muscular set 's highlights , and the moment where Blade gets our own Chris Hughes onstage to photograph him with his fans is cute — QED , this jolly , gentle , reassuringly chubby little geezer does not need to pander to the male hormones and the baser instincts of his audience to get noticed . |
| 21 | Why did lads like Trevor Williamson not want to go to the Oval ? |
| 22 | A MOTHER lost her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against corporal punishment in school yesterday , but the judgment is not expected to lead to a reintroduction of that form of disciplinary action in Britain . |
| 23 | Even following recession , energy demand is not expected to return to the levels of growth originally predicted . |
| 24 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 25 | The issue is not expected to go to a vote . |
| 26 | Consider someone deciding not to try to go to the theatre . |
| 27 | We can not guarantee to deliver to the person . |
| 28 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 29 | To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock . |
| 30 | The arms do not appear to extend to the middle of the disk as in Asteroschema inornatum . |