Example sentences of "not [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why not stay to lunch ? |
| 2 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 3 | Depositors ' funds are placed with HM Treasury , authorised banks , local authorities and building societies in Great Britain ; Tyndall does not lend to other customers . |
| 4 | The story , in brief , is that in colonial times the British banks would not lend to Sri Lankans , except to the very wealthy or very influential . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A return for loss of use of the money is still required and if no return were made then buyers would not lend to the government and would lend elsewhere , for example . |
| 7 | And , unlike Mrs Thatcher , he did not rush to conclusions . |
| 8 | White Stilton is a very young , immature Stilton and does not compare to the traditional blue variety , although I like it in salads and for cooking , where its slightly sharp flavour is penetrating . |
| 9 | Our minds wander to an empty place that does not compare to this natural extravaganza . |
| 10 | It is not your blame , and I will not spare to you what is mine . ’ |
| 11 | The fact that our conceptual scheme is inseparable from the idea of such particulars , he might argue , does not testify to their existence per se . |
| 12 | My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces . |
| 13 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 14 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 15 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 16 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 17 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 18 | ‘ We accept that some of the gypsies , the traditional travellers , do not want to be settled and wish to remain mobile . |
| 19 | The bigger nations , for their part , have already developed systems of takeover supervision , and do not want to be encumbered with another layer of M&A bureaucracy . |
| 20 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 21 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 22 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 23 | Maggie did not want to be a crazy person . |
| 24 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 25 | They will not want to be inhibited by arms control treaty commitments . |
| 26 | EFTA does not want to be a ‘ kindergarten ’ for East European countries embarking on the path to market economies , but the looser 23-nation Council of Europe — to which Hungary has already sought entry — might be asked to play this role once democratic elections are held in individual east European countries . |
| 27 | But it 's emotionally draining living here with someone who does not want to be here . ’ |
| 28 | Most of our local people do not want to be tied into packages , ’ says assistant manager Tracey Johnson . |
| 29 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 30 | The government wants to tighten immigration controls , but it does not want to be seen as anti-Semitic . |