Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | d ) Changing conceptions of professionalism — finally , it should not pass without comment that the traditional concept of professionalism on which successive generations of solicitors have been reared was not uncommonly perceived to have been undermined by the dominant political and economic ideology of the last decade , with its emphasis on consumerism and market forces . |
| 2 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |
| 3 | Police said the house , at Little Chart , was isolated and a prime target for burglary , but could not comment on reports that the break-in was the eighth the home-owner had suffered . |
| 4 | A university spokesman said last night he could not comment on speculation that Mr Powell , who was studying for a BSc in applied biology , had been anxious about sitting his first year exams . |
| 5 | David Pipe , the Jockey Club 's Director of Public Affairs , would not comment on suggestions that Her Honour had been administered a fast-acting tranquiliser . |
| 6 | An officer from a large rural district considered to be quite a ‘ difficult ’ patch observed , for instance , that he was ‘ sure the blokes in [ the city nearby ] , where there are many polluting discharges into relatively fishless rivers , would not worry about things that 'd cause great concern to Stewart and Fred ’ [ two officers in very rural catchments with potable supply rivers ) . |
| 7 | We would not know from Polybius that he was a contemporary of Ennius , Plautus and Terentius . |
| 8 | Any design can be created in any of these seven formats and it will not matter on bit that you have used the Fair Isle option to draw a four colour jacquard design . |
| 9 | The major one is that the Act 's accountancy regulations will not relate to charities that are limited companies . |
| 10 | Plants like pansies will flower for longer , but even those that flower for a long time anyway , like African and French marigolds , will look neater and tidier if dead-headed , and the dead flowers will not detract from flowers that are still blooming . |
| 11 | Through them , it is possible to argue , as Foucault concluded from the design of the Panopticon , a whole type of society may emerge , a society based on the protection of sectional interests through subtle coercion , whose technology is used to preempt what people can and can not do in buildings that they use or occupy . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important difference is that the buyer can not complain of defects that a reasonable examination ought to reveal . |
| 13 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |
| 14 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 15 | The most modern interferometers can obtain spectra in shorter times , but even so they can not deal with samples that decay in seconds , let alone milli- , micro- or nanoseconds . |
| 16 | While one can not say with certainty that such images ‘ teach ’ boys to be aggressive in class , there is on the other hand little there which would permit boys to be quiet and accommodating , the attributes valued by the harassed classroom teacher . |
| 17 | There is only one proviso ; the programs have been tested and used a number of times , but we can not say with certainty that they are bug free . |