Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrust of his invasive tongue was unbelievably erotic … it was frightening , and exciting , and even the grim memory of Mortimer could n't shake off the shivers of reaction in her stomach . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 3 | The citizens of Leicestershire need not feel shame . |
| 4 | Lacking comparable communications , the northern division of Buckinghamshire could not match the wealth of the Chilterns and other arable regions . |
| 5 | Both the defendants and the Bank of England , while not expressly acknowledging the link , invite the court to proceed for present purposes on the assumption that without the defendants ' breach the Bank of England would not have issued the section 39 notice in its present form . |
| 6 | Princess Anne is remarrying in Scotland because the Church of England wo n't marry her . |
| 7 | The Osborne report went further , arguing that the Church of England should not consider lesbian issues ‘ without considering its own social culture of male/female power relationships . ’ |
| 8 | The young man , whose name was Merbury , was eager and inexperienced , and took it for granted , as an honest man well might , that his story of complete and shattering victory , of the capture of so many of the active nobility of Scotland , and of a bright lustre added to the name of Percy and of England could not fail to be pleasing to his sovereign . |
| 9 | In his electoral speeches , Boris Yeltsin had emphasised that the president of Russia should not belong to a political party . |
| 10 | ‘ The Countess of Anjou ca n't hurt you now . |
| 11 | I said that one day we should be back , and that in the meantime our affection for the people of Burma would not fail . |
| 12 | Quebec also received recognition of its status as a " distinct society " , together with a guarantee that its share of seats in the federal House of Commons would not fall below 25 per cent . |
| 13 | Second , we should recognise that a two-party dominance in the House of Commons may not reflect the pattern of electoral support in the country at large since our first-past-the-post electoral system makes it difficult for third parties to break through into parliament in proportion to their support in the country . |
| 14 | And I tell you that you are Peter , and on this rock I will build my church , and the gates of Hades will not overcome it … |
| 15 | The OverDrive , P24T , version of Pentium will not ship until early 1994 . |
| 16 | She was a forceful and charismatic speaker , and her avowal in a July 1936 radio broadcast on the outbreak of the Civil War that " Fascism shall not pass , the executioners of October shall not pass [ no pasarán ] " became a battle cry for the Republican forces . |
| 17 | It was not just the natural fear of a cruel crucifixion : suffused with the divine life , the person of Jesus could not die in any ordinary sense . |
| 18 | Given that the appalling tragedy in the Horn of Africa will not end until there is peace , and given the changes in the pattern of the United Nations ' work in recent years , which our Government have so actively supported , does the Minister think that we are now reaching a stage where British troops could be deployed under a United Nations banner in humanitarian action as a precursor to effective aid ? |
| 19 | We were also given cause to laugh by a comment made by a prominent Unionist MEP at a Twelfth demonstration in Armagh who said something along the lines of ‘ The people of Ulster will not tolerate Dublin rule ’ . |
| 20 | Palafox was a great aristocrat , known to be a friend of the deposed Ferdinand and anything but a democrat ; but , as his brother made clear , the future hero of the siege of Saragossa could not master the people on any other terms . |
| 21 | Europeans had heard travellers ' tales of how natives of different parts of China could not understand each other 's speech , but could communicate by writing . |
| 22 | The wreck of Braer will not cause the oil industry to ground its plans to expand . |
| 23 | Christ 's feet in ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service , are ‘ unoffending ’ which may mean without sin , but might also mean just harmless or inoffensive , devoid of power in a way paralleling Origen 's sexual impotence ; the apparent presence of God need not guarantee Christ 's power . |
| 24 | Cases like that of Gómez can not remain uninvestigated and those responsible should be brought to justice in order to prevent such atrocities occurring . |
| 25 | As the mass of the inhabitants of Camberwell could not afford to move further out to the wealthier suburbs , most families stayed put . |
| 26 | In deference to German wishes , the EC agreed that recognition of Bosnia should not take place from yesterday , April 6 , a date still remembered in the Balkans as the anniversary of the Nazi invasion in 1941 . |
| 27 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 28 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 29 | Version 6.0 of Pick will not have a very long life , however — by the summer , versions 6.1 will be in beta test . |
| 30 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |