Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [adv] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 2 | Today she was here , lost in the beauty of the music of love , and Dr Rafaelo might well not have existed . |
| 3 | Turning to Naas Botha just as he was preparing to kick off the second half , Bishop remarked , ‘ We 're in for a hell of a 40 minutes , Naas ’ — just what sort of hell Botha would rather not have found out … |
| 4 | Derek decided that in the position that Rory was standing , plus the possible cover defence from the Australians , that a try for England would probably not have been scored , so he simply awarded a penalty kick . |
| 5 | Miller said Rainey would clearly not race again this season , which means the world crown will go to another American , Suzuki rider Kevin Schwantz . |
| 6 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 7 | N F U and C LA could surely not have been oblivious of the fact that this shortage was one which farmers and landowners , in their role as councillors , had been responsible for creating . |
| 8 | The medical evidence establishes that but for the accident , Fred would probably not have committed suicide . |
| 9 | The enforcement of anything like a just peace in Bosnia and Croatia would indeed not have been easy . |
| 10 | The temperatures deeper into Jupiter will certainly not fall below 170 K. Thus , although the measured value of 170 K is only at a pressure of 1 bar , the pressure-temperature path on the molecular hydrogen phase-diagram as we descend to higher pressures never crosses the line ending at the critical-point . |
| 11 | Mr Kaye will now NOT have to appear before magistrates . |
| 12 | Joan Cooper can still not see properly . |
| 13 | Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ . |
| 14 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 15 | Overseas investment firms dealing in the UK will generally not need authorisation if they do not have a UK office and deal only with other professionals and large institutional clients . |
| 16 | for example , the Act says that governors are to be responsible for disciplinary procedures for staff , and a collective agreement which gave this function to the LEA could therefore not apply . |
| 17 | The argument readily connected up with the thought that the existence of God is necessary : God could not not -exist . |
| 18 | The House of Lords would certainly not have survived had it not been reformed by Harold Macmillan 's Life Peerages Act of 1958 . |
| 19 | But the Ontological Proof is religious , it 's moral , it 's about how God ca n't not exist . ’ |
| 20 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 21 | But if England lose the second Test , they will need a new captain as well as a new-look team Gooch would surely not survive any longer . |
| 22 | Abraham 's previous experience of God would certainly not have led him to suppose child-sacrifice would please him . |
| 23 | Without the resources of the Oxford department in the following three years , Florey would probably not have been able to bring penicillin to clinical fruition . |
| 24 | Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about . |
| 25 | The postmodernists rejected this viewpoint , however , as excessive romanticism , but Peto would surely not have cared . |
| 26 | And anyhow , Cara would probably not have lasted more than two minutes in her job in the journalistic field had she not grown a few hard edges . |
| 27 | Some AMEs will however not find it worthwhile continuing , faced with such costs . |
| 28 | Looking out over the Brussels skyline , it occurs to me that Carter may well not have that many more opportunities to have the last laugh on a scale like this . |
| 29 | ‘ The NRA would just not respond to the access problems while we had the lease , ’ said Robin . |
| 30 | She felt disloyal in not telling Jenny of Matthew 's inconsequential fickleness , and yet Jenny would probably not believe her if she did tell . |