Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] not [vb infin] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadow National Heritage spokesman Ann Clywd was also pleased with the Government 's plans but warned they must not put pools staff out of work . |
| 2 | At first I thought I could not have children because of my age . |
| 3 | Tess now felt she could not stop things happening , and agreed passively to whatever Angel suggested . |
| 4 | She said she would not blame teachers for concluding that their profession was being utterly deprofessionalised after Mr Lang 's suggestion that schools could be run by parents and local busy-bodies . |
| 5 | ‘ The North said they would not hold talks during the … exercises , ’ the source said . |
| 6 | Newspapers said they would not report matches and carried a barrage of irate letters . |
| 7 | A police spokeswoman said they could not confirm reports of a second bag snatch from a another woman 's car just a few minutes later . |
| 8 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 9 | IBM Japan said it will not consider measures that would force employees out despite its economic woes because of customary lifelong employment in Japan . |
| 10 | It said 56 per cent of those asked believed the president had misled the public during last year 's election campaign when he said he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his programmes . |
| 11 | ( A few months later , president George Bush underlined the non-equivalence of ‘ women ’ and ‘ American citizens ’ : explaining why the US saw fit to invade Panama , he said he could not tolerate assaults on ‘ the wife of an American citizen ’ . |
| 12 | He said he could not release details of the amount of money involved as it was confidential information . |
| 13 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |