Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] [to-vb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not fail to see that all , men , women and children , wore nothing in the tropical heat but a band — in the case of the women this was quite ornate — around their middles , leaving everything else uncovered . |
| 2 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 3 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't like to say that such an idea has never occurred to him , but , if it has , I suspect he is having second thoughts . |
| 5 | But I think we 'll update not so much is over public authorities would probably take your advice , but I 'm thinking of people who are not public authorities who might in a way suffer , that your advice may cause them some expense , and they might choose to delay it , and well I am guilty we ca n't afford to do that this year , so it never gets done . |
| 6 | Although it will not do to assume that political developments in different nation states will ever be sufficiently ‘ synchronised ’ to avoid entirely the problems of advancing the socialist project in one country , or a restricted group of countries , this consideration does point to the vital need for maximum international coordination in the pursuit of socialist objectives . |
| 7 | We can not afford to assume that all governments , ail public servants , will always be benign and free from corruption . |