Example sentences of "not [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor are they decentralised in the true meaning of the word : powers belonging to the centre are not devolved to peripheral firms . |
| 2 | There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners . |
| 3 | By contrast , for Darwin as a genealogical ( ancestry and descent ) theorist of historical biogeography , resemblances and differences are not traced to developmental advances , but to ramifying migrations and adaptive divergences from common ancestors that are more or less remote from their diverse descendants in time , place and character . |
| 4 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 5 | Yet this radical worker , formed in the revolutionary school of before 1848 , was to make his mark on labour history as the cautious , moderate and above all efficient administrator of the greatest of the ‘ new model ’ skilled unions , the Amalgamated Society of Engineers ; and was both a practising Anglican churchman and ‘ in politics a sound and consistent liberal , not given to political quackery in any form ’ . |
| 6 | Second , the male family members , because they are male , are given a credibility — and hence power — to influence non admission not given to female members . |
| 7 | This may be unfair on her , but it probably helps the Community to have Mrs Cresson threatening to block Japanese exports if ‘ reciprocal access ’ is not given to European goods in Japan . |
| 8 | She flew with Maurice Dornier in the Do X flying-boat and enjoyed , it seems , many other privileges not given to other correspondents . |
| 9 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 10 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 11 | We 'd never produce budgets without erm having thoroughly discussed them with the Treasurer and saying to the Treasurer 's Department of the County Council , which is a very conservative department I have to say ( with a small c ) ; it 's not given to wild flurries of excitement and imagination . |
| 12 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 13 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 14 | She is not given to grieving . |
| 15 | Although not given to dramatic expressions , he found himself thinking : End of Act One . |
| 16 | For ‘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ’ , another poem , a different problem , Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds on an emblematic , almost mystical level : The paradoxes are as bewildering as the mystery of the Holy Trinity : Mysterious and desirable though such a union may be , it is not given to human beings , and in the Sonnets it does not take place . |
| 17 | They were not given to silly pranks at any time , let alone a quarter to two on Sunday morning . |
| 18 | ‘ Trust in God … is not taught to human beings by God . |
| 19 | This feature is also evident in their natural habitat ; they are found most often in areas which are not exposed to strong currents , except perhaps briefly when the tide turns . |
| 20 | Unpredictable and volatile exchange rates are an incentive for resources to be shifted towards the non-traded goods sector which is not exposed to international competition and is largely unaffected by sizeable and unanticipated exchange rate changes . |
| 21 | American interests demanded a friendly and stable Middle East , one which was not exposed to Soviet interference or encroachment , and from which supplies of oil — especially to Western Europe — were assured . |
| 22 | Ideally , they should be kept in the open where they get good light , but are not exposed to severe winds . |
| 23 | Attempts have been made to control parasitic bronchitis by grazing systems designed to ensure that young susceptible cattle are not exposed to large numbers of infective larvae . |
| 24 | They are not limited to ictal episodes and can also occur peri-ictally and interictally . |
| 25 | Second messenger gated channels are very widely distributed , they 're certainly not limited to excitable tissues . |
| 26 | Two principal ( albeit contradictory ) difficulties arose : the belief of the governments of some member states ( including the UK ) that any such procedure should be voluntary , and the fact that Vredeling was not limited to collective representation of employees through trade unions . |
| 27 | This is not limited to religious beliefs , communal rituals or shared traditions . |
| 28 | This method could probably be applied widely , as it is not limited to strong photodissociating systems and does not , like absorption , require a third state to which excitation is caused in the probe step . |
| 29 | As in the High Court the power is not limited to personal injury cases . |
| 30 | The differences of opinion which characterized the regime 's political " families " were not limited to domestic issues . |