Example sentences of "not [vb infin] it [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extremely unlikely that if the House of Lords did not exist it would be invented in its present form . |
| 2 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 3 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |
| 4 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 5 | The issue is philosophical , but it is so central to the analysis of behaviour that I do not think it can be avoided . |
| 6 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 7 | Although in these circumstances the ethnographic method is the best way to obtain trust , it does not ensure it will be won from every respondent in the field . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I actually , in my usual optimistic spirit , do not believe it will be lost , in the end , because we 're facing such a strange collection of critics and would-be voters who contradict each other . ’ |