Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 2 | If he had n't agreed to appear we could not have raised the cash to make the show . ’ |
| 3 | When Tim helps clients to decorate they have to accept they will not end up with a ‘ decorated ’ house in the London sense of the word . |
| 4 | How much better to engage someone to help who can not claim official credit for himself when the matter is solved . ’ |
| 5 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 6 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 7 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 8 | THREE more Lloyd 's syndicates , with a combined capacity of £282 million , are poised to announce they can not close their 1989 accounts and will have to ‘ run them off ’ , exposing names to a stream of claims without premiums . |
| 9 | THREE more Lloyd 's syndicates , with a combined capacity of £282 million , are poised to announce they can not close their 1989 accounts and will have to ‘ run them off ’ , exposing names to a stream of claims without premiums . |
| 10 | The old days of taking on board every issue and then establishing a committee to handle it can not continue . |
| 11 | Introducing young people to society and encouraging them to express themselves should not create conflict , as long as there is a co-operative understanding within the family or community . |
| 12 | John has found much to do which will not require to be again done in N.S.W. I still hope we may not exceed two years in our absence and I think John is as anxious as myself on the subject . |
| 13 | When asked by a government committee what people were to do who could not afford 5s. a week rent for a room , her answer was , ‘ I should have thought that when the cost of living rose the wages must necessarily rise , or something more efficient be done . |
| 14 | Therefore , to excise it would not imply any reversal of Britain 's opt-out . |
| 15 | There is no efficient safeguard to ensure you will not find such a person loitering in your entrance hall when you come home . |
| 16 | People are led to believe they might not get their mail if they use the townland . |
| 17 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 18 | Many locals were angry that the pilot and his electronic warfare officer ejected from their crashing plane too soon to ensure it would not hit buildings at Barton Hartshorn , near Buckingham . |
| 19 | I , I , I find it difficult to believe he would not have known that . |
| 20 | It is no use whatsoever introducing bait at irregular intervals , for the lesson we are trying to teach them will not sink in if we give them time to forget in between each baiting session . |
| 21 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 22 | If he ca n't afford to smoke he should not smoke . |
| 23 | First , those who come to the Park to enjoy it can not do so , because of all the traffic . |
| 24 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 25 | I believe he came to see it would not do . |
| 26 | And he seems to think I may not get any worse , but we sha n't know for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 27 | I was beginning to think I would not see you today . |
| 28 | He was beginning to think he could not bear to sell it . |
| 29 | Slave lines showed a propensity to innovate ; and in any case Abdulkarim seemed to think it would not matter crucially what his widowed sister 's daughter might do . |
| 30 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |