Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging .
2 If we are very angry or excited , we tend not to listen to what other people are saying .
3 Members tend not to listen to each other .
4 There is much hypocrisy practised against homosexuals and I hope not to contribute to it , but it is not all on the one side .
5 I now turn to traits which seem not to contribute to the fitness of the individual even in their present form .
6 But his fiancee may think that all time not allocated to necessities such as work should be spent together .
7 He 's you know not talking to me now .
8 the trends , compared to the previous study , in the rates of migration out of the Province of highly qualified students ; What sorts of students decide not to return to Northern Ireland , electing to take up employment elsewhere ?
9 I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie .
10 Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy .
11 Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered .
12 Try not to start to leeward of a group of yachts or they will probably sail over you .
13 If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route .
14 The rest have been ‘ screened out ’ — denied refugee status — and if they choose not to return to Viet Nam under a ‘ voluntary repatriation program ’ they may face indefinite detention in Hong Kong , or an increasing threat of forcible return to Viet Nam .
15 As a glance at most family photo albums will show , there are many aspects of their lives which people choose not to reveal to their friends .
16 ‘ I do not apologise to you , nor to the murderous bastard next to you !
17 This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are often ill-equipped or lacking in motivation and so do not perform to the best of their abilities .
18 ‘ You do not speak to me like that .
19 Do not speak to me of proof .
20 Do not speak to him .
21 Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so .
22 Inside Cambodia , Khmer Rouge guerrillas do not appear to be planning any big offensives against the towns .
23 Therefore , the day-by-day changes in the timing of rhythms seen in the aged do not appear to be due to day-by-day irregularities of habits , and this suggests an internal cause due to the body clock .
24 In Numbers 11 certainly the people do not appear to be faced with starvation .
25 But about 4 p.c. of Down 's syndrome children are born with either mosaic Down 's syndrome or inherited Downs and these conditions do not appear to be covered on the policy .
26 Some differences have been noted which do not appear to be trivial .
27 Some of the earliest plants do not appear to be the most primitive , and vice versa .
28 Thus in the Framingham Study , triglycerides do not appear to be an independent risk factor .
29 The theory seems to have a middle class bias in that it assumes that all criminal and rule-breakers accept and cherish middle-class goals , but many delinquent activities do not appear to be aiming for material gains .
30 Certainly , organised , structured delinquent gangs do not appear to be the norm in Britain today .
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