Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chuckled inwardly , thinking that maybe the boy was not altogether lost to him . |
| 2 | In some ways not altogether opposed to the hygienist school ( they did not very much approve of cuddling , although as early as 1932 Ian Suttie had protested against the ‘ taboo on tenderness ’ ) , nevertheless a basic interest in the child 's natural intellectual and social development , together with a less inhibited approach to sexual function , opened the door to greater permissiveness generally . |
| 3 | It is true that the section does not expressly refer to proceedings by way of injunction as such ; but , as I have previously said , the breadth of the section is such as to embrace injunction proceedings , brought under the power subsequently conferred by section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 , when such proceedings are necessary . |
| 4 | Thus if the clause does not expressly refer to negligence , the clause may still exclude liability for negligence provided that ( 1 ) the wording is capable of covering negligence and ( 2 ) there is no other head of liability to which the clause could apply . |
| 5 | But in one or two areas the corporate development is not wholly related to these . |
| 6 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 7 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 8 | Thus we have a situation where data is not transformed into information , ie what staff need is information that addresses a specific need or objective of their job , and what typically they receive is a mass of data not properly tailored to their needs and so difficult to penetrate that it falls into disuse . |
| 9 | It is important to emphasize that ‘ creative accounting ’ does not properly refer to ‘ illegal accounting ’ : there is or was no support for illegal accounting . |
| 10 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 11 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 12 | Secondly , the techniques , although not widely developed to date , may culminate in the creation of more productive plant and animal crops that could help alleviate food scarcity problems in developing countries by increasing the viability of traditionally based agroecosystems , thus obviating the need for the cultivation of new lands . |
| 13 | This provision is not widely known to farmers , largely because the Departments have never taken sufficient trouble to spell it out . |
| 14 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 15 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 16 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 17 | ( 2 ) A partner who retires from a firm does not thereby cease to be liable for partnership debts or obligations incurred before his retirement . |
| 18 | I wonder whether Christ would not rather go to Calvary again than to suffer the unfaithfulness of some of his friends . |
| 19 | Who would not rather own to theft and deception within the Church 's writ , rather than put his neck into the sheriff 's noose for murder ? |
| 20 | Whichever way we look at these figures , whether we believe they represent a real increase in the rate of sexual violence or not , the decreasing conviction rate indicates that the state has not effectively responded to demands that sex crimes be treated more seriously . |
| 21 | When moving around the surface of the Earth , one can not fail to be impressed by the diversity of all that one sees , and it is easy to imagine that there is an infinite complexity of different ‘ things ’ not apparently related to one another . |
| 22 | We have also encountered patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France who were not apparently linked to any previously described ethnogeographic cluster of this mutation but bore it , suggesting the existence of separate foci . |
| 23 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 24 | Not all called to Zaire , Brazil , etc , but we are called to SUPPORT and PRAY in specific and informed ways for those who are , and we at home must get out and reach those in our own community . |
| 25 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 26 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 27 | When acting for management , it is important to ensure that the ratchet is not entirely geared to the vagaries of the stock market in the event of a flotation , but also reflects the profitability of the company . |
| 28 | And the audience of a state radio station is not entirely limited to that state . |
| 29 | He liked her , she was fun , but not entirely suited to Carter 's chaste outlook . |
| 30 | Though not entirely restricted to Friends , it was an approach particularly appealing to people in whom quietist instincts remained strong both before and after the direct political involvement exemplified by the election of Joseph Pease to parliament in 1832 . |