Example sentences of "not [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those which do not exist are effectively discarded because they are not stored in the list , however they could be regenerated from the graph should that become necessary at some future stage . |
| 2 | Where statistically significant differences do not exist is between high-achieving men and high-achieving women . |
| 3 | It is in my opinion axiomatic that a boundary which does not exist is ipso facto incapable of being re-aligned , but can only with ju justification be created de novo . |
| 4 | Analogously one might say " that the Earth is round is a fact " , " that Ruritania does not exist is a fact " . |
| 5 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 6 | Salt marshes , too , would not exist were it not for the tides . |
| 7 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 8 | We will say that exactly what did not exist was a causal link between the operation of the mechanism , or anything else whatever , and the bar 's coming out . |
| 9 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 10 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 11 | By the end of the day Harriet was not surprised when the girl went to bed early , pleading a headache which her mother did not think was entirely due to gin and tonic at ten thirty in the morning . |
| 12 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 13 | The proposition that there are no laws which Parliament may not make is one which has been uttered frequently . |
| 14 | What we do not want is lessons laid down by law . |
| 15 | What we most certainly do not want is a dog with high fearlessness and high sharpness . |
| 16 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 17 | On savings , the one thing that we do not want is a return to the Labour Government 's policies of the 1970s . |
| 18 | The one thing I did not want was an internal . |
| 19 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 20 | What he did not explain was the logical conclusion that before Whinfield and Denmark Street controlled their budgets they offered a similar service to other surgeries . |
| 21 | What it does not convey are the undulations , the surprising humps and bumps more redolent of a seaside links . |
| 22 | One person I do not fancy is Luke Skywalker |
| 23 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
| 24 | With my wife 's reluctant agreement ( she did not fancy being left on her own with our two year old son for over a week ) , we started to plan our journey . |
| 25 | What John Rennie does not consider is the buying power of the audience to the Royal . |
| 26 | The one sphere of crime that the Government will not consider is its underlying causes . |
| 27 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 28 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 29 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 30 | Our ideas about faith were taken from my readings of Unamuno , and in this poem from one of the essays , ‘ Faith , Hope and Charity ’ , from The Tragic Sense of Life : ‘ A faith that does not doubt is a dead faith . ’ |