Example sentences of "by [noun] who [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manor is set right in the middle of Horncastle and has a large and colourful garden , much admired by passers-by who can not help but pause at the usually open corner gate in the garden wall . |
| 2 | Condition is relatively immaterial , as those that do not appeal to collectors are often bought by visitors who can not afford the full price of an up to date guide . |
| 3 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 4 | It was a large , rather forbidding and gloomy building , called Battersby Grammar School , and it was on the fringe of that decayed , desolate , once-grand grey fringe that surrounds the centres of most cities ; the houses in this area , large and terraced and of some dignity , had been long abandoned by the middle classes , and were now occupied by families who could not afford to live anywhere else . |
| 5 | CONCERN has been expressed that emergency calls are being answered by people who may not understand local accents . |
| 6 | Housing benefit was never payable in addition to income support , but was used in place of it by people who would not have qualified for income support , such as people living in a room run by a close relative , the long-term disabled and various other categories of people under pensionable age who were not eligible . |
| 7 | Some were canonised and others — like Eckhart and Tauler — were hounded by the Church , but all were seen to be of enormous importance by their contemporaries , even by people who could not follow them into the inner world . |
| 8 | Scorn will heaped on the book by people who can not think of the countryside as anything other than a marketable resource , or those who think they are being environmentally perceptive because they call a gate a peripherial access point and a path a mountain access route . |
| 9 | An even lower profile is provided by teachers who may not set foot in the classroom at all but who may spend considerable periods of time in discussion with colleagues on ways in which the curriculum can be made more accessible to all children in the class , including the least able . |