Example sentences of "[not/n't] now [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall not now make the point that contradictions and tautologies are often socially acceptable ; the important point is that we can only see that there is a contradiction in ( 29 ) because , as users of the language , we know how to interpret the rules of intensional combination , and those rules have not been broken . |
| 2 | Faldo said at Wentworth yesterday that he made the decision because he feels he can not now finish at the top of the European order of merit by playing in Spain . |
| 3 | I will not now detail the reasons for failure with the first three women — we lost some seven selected conceptions — but go straight to the one with whom we succeeded . |
| 4 | She might not now think of this as the action of a deflated bully , but the symptoms are classic . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you do not now rule out the possibility of murder ? ’ she said . |
| 6 | She could not now shrug her shoulders . |
| 7 | Even a disastrous industrial slump would not now bring a major return to the countryside or substantial growth in the relative importance of agriculture . |
| 8 | As a consequence of rule 12 an order for costs can not now lead to a taxation other than on a standard basis or indemnity basis . |
| 9 | Suddenly there were too many women realising that their happiness had to be taken at the expense of their men 's — men who had promised so much and could not now deliver the goods ; just like her father five years before . |
| 10 | THE Soviet team Stroitel Kiev , who were to play in this year 's World International Club Championships at Crystal Palace next week , will not now do so after the organisers refused their demand for £1,900-a-game appearance money . |
| 11 | Local authorities that could have taken them before can not now do so . |
| 12 | A training organisation which normally recruited 20 young people at Easter and can not now do so saves the Government £7,000 . |
| 13 | Identify UP projects that will end as of 1993–94 and any planned projects which may not now go ahead . |
| 14 | The Muirend Triangle thanks mainly to the work done by Mr. Ferguson and his committee will not now go ahead . |
| 15 | The Muirend Triangle thanks mainly to the work done by Mr. Ferguson and his committee will not now go ahead . |
| 16 | On the same day the government announced that although Part II of the Football Spectators Act , which gave powers to the courts to impose restriction orders on those convicted of football-related offences , would be implemented as soon as possible , Part I of the Act which proposed a national membership scheme would not now go ahead in view of the advice given in the report . |
| 17 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 18 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 19 | According to Committee secretary Nigel Peace , the finalised version of the report , which had been expected to be issued in October , will not now appear until the end of November at the earliest : this makes the original proposed deadline of 31 December 1992 for compliance with the code too tight for companies to meet . |
| 20 | Could my fondness have kept you steady I should not now appear before you in this solemn manner . |
| 21 | The YF-22 was conceived in the days of the cold war , and many of its exotic features were developed to defeat predicted Soviet advances that may or may not now materialise . |
| 22 | And , if taxed by such as Sylvester , he probably would not now admit it in so many words . |
| 23 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |
| 24 | Does the Under-Secretary understand that if the Government had not embarked on the wholly cynical and two-faced policy of enticing schools with surplus places to opt out , the children at Stratford school would not now face chaos ? |
| 25 | It was also necessary formally to sever its links with the Odiham Agricultural Society so , on 19 April 1791 , a letter was sent to the Society , saying that the College would not now persist in the Odiham plan of sending youths to France to be trained . |
| 26 | These laws may have originally been decreed by God , but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it . |
| 27 | However , subject to further consideration by the House of Lords , this does not now represent English law . |
| 28 | Merseytravel finance director John Wilkinson said he did not now expect another toll increase to be even considered for another 12 months . |
| 29 | Because most of us have ignored non-European cultures in the past does not now mean that European and European/American culture have become less valid or that we must be tempted to rewrite history twisting facts to suit our present crisis of confidence . |
| 30 | The sweets called marshmallows do not now contain any of the substance of the plant , being made up of gum , egg-white , flour , sweetening , colouring and so on . |