Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , changes in the proportion of people married in particular age categories does not appear to have contributed to any significant decline in population increases . |
| 2 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 3 | The Society is essential to our being , Medau work would not have become established in this country and can not be carried on without it . |
| 4 | If we 'd seen it coming sooner then er we would perhaps not have got started on all the many schemes are actually on site . |
| 5 | Like every other class and institution , the nobility was tested in the crisis of 1808 and the French invasion : it does not seem to have failed in this test as completely as has been asserted . |
| 6 | One can speculate why , with so much in common , Greeks and Jews do not seem to have spoken to each other . |
| 7 | Ruth did n't want to get drawn into all that again and besides , his tone had n't indicated anything more than a passing interest . |
| 8 | I ca n't wait to get rid of that carpet , I am sick of seeing it |
| 9 | I did n't hear that either , do n't expect to get dressed like this and get out in it ? |
| 10 | Terry did n't appear to have thought about this before and he puzzled over it , staring into his bitter and a bag of smoky bacon crisps . |
| 11 | I do n't like getting rid of that that thin carpet right underneath . |
| 12 | Some days I did n't bother to get dressed at all . |
| 13 | You know , it does n't seem to have affected in that erm respect , no . |
| 14 | It had been four years since Jessamy had seen her , and she did n't seem to have changed at all . |
| 15 | Miguel Rafaelo did n't seem to have thought of that . |