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 . |