Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But cooperation between genes did not stay limited to cellular biochemistry . |
| 2 | I would agree that the doors of the English department should not remain closed to theoretical challenges , and in this book I am trying to respond to them . |
| 3 | " I can not remain married to a man who is known to be a homosexual . " |
| 4 | Although socialism looks shattered now , the voters will not remain loyal to conservatism for ever . |
| 5 | Without such market intelligence a company can not remain sensitive to its market . |
| 6 | The citizens of Massalia in their turn could not remain insensitive to the surrounding civilization . |
| 7 | Unlike other cereals , rye is cross-fertilized and does not remain true to type . |
| 8 | I arrived at my quarter at what time I do not know due to me being very intoxicated and when I awoke some hours later I discovered the following ’ . |
| 9 | While it is apparent that members of an organisation will always be affected by a treaty concluded by the organisation in the sense that they can not act contrary to it , the controversial question was whether they could be formally bound by it . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) Mark any point that at the time of perusing the abstracted deed does not appear clear to you by scoring the margin heavily against your note , or in any other manner that will catch your attention . |
| 11 | The current area may not appear attractive to staff , possibly because of high house prices , and so firms may want to move to help their recruitment or perhaps reduce their staff turnover levels . |
| 12 | The fact that unemployment did not result prior to deflationary policies suggests that real wage rises did not exceed those required to adjust scrapping to the pace of accumulation and labour supply . |
| 13 | After that , Dinah should disappear for a little ; they must not grow accustomed to her , and he himself had a leading part waiting which demanded full passions ; that of Tamburlaine . |
| 14 | A standard paragraph may not always reflect the tone required to deal with a particular enquiry ; it may not be quite appropriate to particular circumstances and it may not feel right to the recipient . |
| 15 | Consequently , the composition of authorities reinforced conflicts of loyalties : many members did not feel accountable to the RHA who appointed them but to local constituencies . |
| 16 | However , he says , he does not feel pressurised to ‘ test ’ ASB rulings before anyone else . |
| 17 | Although the overall picture which emerges in this essentially exploratory study will not feel new to Social Services practitioners — that is , that the financial costs of caring are considerable even in the better off three-adult households , and the majority of two-adult households are living in poverty — the detail of the data adds both emphasis and new angles . |
| 18 | It did not feel unreasonable to her , that she felt no sorrow . |
| 19 | they may not feel open to accepting that person into the family , very aware of having to make a conscious effort to put aside prejudices and stereotypes in order to get to know , like and accept him or her . |
| 20 | After a long fight to beat inflation , the government does not feel sympathetic to these demands . |
| 21 | It was the end of the ST–18 , General Aircraft did not have the money to build another one , and perhaps did not feel inclined to , with the lukewarm interest they had experienced . |
| 22 | A taxi driver , teacher or taxidermist need not feel inferior to anyone with a high profile , high rating , high budget ministry . |
| 23 | The silence and emptiness of the scene did not become apparent to her until she turned into the drive of the house and realized there were no other cars parked there , no gaily clad groups tripping towards the garden , no jazz band to summon them nor hired flunkeys to greet them , no pop of champagne corks nor buzz of conversation , no bunting , no balloons , no merriment of any kind . |
| 24 | The pores in the skin are a classic example : they ‘ can not become perceptible to us by themselves , but yet their presence in the skin can be deduced from sweat ’ . |
| 25 | Those with experience stress how important it is that the carer and the dependant should not become indispensable to each other or never spend time apart . |
| 26 | Quite what type Rex Cunningham was did not become clear to Harry in the course of their meal together that evening . |
| 27 | Neither found the BF a suitable vehicle for their increasingly anti-semitic views as the organization did not become hostile to Jews before 1932 . |
| 28 | It is important that dogs do not become accustomed to sleeping in your bedroom . |
| 29 | ’ It did not sound good to me . |
| 30 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |