Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] not [vb infin] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coonts may not have got lost once in three months of eyeball navigation around the Lower 48 , but his writing could do with a position fix . |
| 2 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 3 | Boardroom upsets could not have done other than harm to the playing side of the club , he went on . |
| 4 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 5 | It is beyond dispute that advances in medicine and improvements in living conditions have enabled individuals who at previous times would not have survived severe illness or chronic handicaps to live on , perhaps with some disability , into their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades . |