Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this Keynesian demand management could not dispel much of the economic uncertainty faced by business . |
| 2 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 3 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |
| 4 | The experience of the Modular Course suggests that what must be avoided is ‘ Exocet thinking ’ : review systems do not stay healthy in fire-and-forget mode — they degenerate into a perfunctory ritual . |
| 5 | If it was then the case , as William Weber wrote , that ‘ La musique ancienne returned to dominate … as never before ’ in the actual repertory , matters of performance practice , by contrast , certainly did not stay static . |
| 6 | They decided to capitalize on their success by putting up prices/ The official reason , worth of Pravda in hits heyday , was that champagne could not stay abreast of rising demand . |
| 7 | But cooperation between genes did not stay limited to cellular biochemistry . |
| 8 | As Charlie was forbidden the A.R.R.U. , he did not stay pale-green long . |
| 9 | And then the moment came , when the children could not stay quiet . |
| 10 | ‘ That is the reason why everywhere in the world where people are suffering and where men , women and children are in danger we can not stay quiet , ’ he said . |
| 11 | As most women — and indeed , most men — do not stay 40 years with one employer , they usually receive less than this . |
| 12 | The canal did have an ‘ official opening ’ last May , but it did not stay open for long . |
| 13 | A leading City property investor said yesterday : ‘ Well-designed buildings in this area do not stay empty long — there is always strong demand . ’ |
| 14 | Dexter watched the man 's annoyance drain away : he was the sort who could not stay angry for long . |
| 15 | His reception by the sisters was heart-warming , and there was regret all round that he could not stay any time , that haste was vital . |
| 16 | Can you not stay another day to sail round the island ? ’ |
| 17 | He felt that he could not stay another night in the house . |
| 18 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 19 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 20 | Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty , if at all . |
| 21 | He uses three premisses : that houses , mountains , and rivers , are what we perceive by sense ; that what we perceive by sense are ‘ our own ideas or sensations ’ ; and that ideas can not exist unperceived . |
| 22 | He concludes from these that houses , mountains , and rivers can not exist unperceived . |
| 23 | Much of what is now recognised as social work did not exist 30 or 40 years ago , and what did — child care work , work with mentally ill people and some other matters — was practised on a much smaller scale , away from the glare of the media . |
| 24 | This is not to say that there do not exist important statistical problems which need to be overcome and a major part of this project is directed towards these more econometric issues . |
| 25 | He had vague memories of a brother who apparently did not exist any more . |
| 26 | Following the signing of the non-aggression accord , President Roh stated in a televised speech that " there do not exist any nuclear weapons whatsoever anywhere in the Republic of Korea " . |
| 27 | I do n't understand , because the address does not exist any more . ’ |
| 28 | It has been suggested recently by a press commentator that without the CNAA there would be no polytechnics , and undoubtedly if the Council did not exist some similar body would be necessary to give the new institutions the opportunities they need for their full development . |
| 29 | Most organisations do not lend 100 per cent of the purchase price on old properties . |
| 30 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |