Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally Carol Jones , arriving in a great hurry , apologized but could not stay as she was doing the payroll . |
| 2 | In my view on the facts as found by the judge this issue does not arise since she was not able to make a genuine decision . |
| 3 | In the end each successive British government was obliged to trust the Americans , and to hope that circumstances would not arise when it disagreed with American policy . |
| 4 | ‘ It may not arise because I may not be staying . ’ |
| 5 | If that is right , the difficulty to which we have referred does not arise and we need not grapple with the implications of sub-rule ( 3 ) . |
| 6 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 7 | Some linguistic abilities may not be detected , not because the child is not able to demonstrate them , but simply because the occasion did not arise where they were required . |
| 8 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 9 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 10 | This problem does not arise if there are independent directors on the board of the vendor company who are responsible for making decisions . |
| 11 | The issue of sampling adequacy does not arise if our analysis is based on the whole of the text under consideration . |
| 12 | In this a group of friends form a syndicate to create the Hopkin myth , inventing biographical details ( ‘ a near genius living in the country with a romantic proletarian background , possibly a dipsomaniac mother and so on ’ ) for a painter who does not exist but whose paintings they churn out in a fashionable style ( ‘ with dots , crescent shapes and bright colours ’ ) and exhibit in a sensational first exhibition . |
| 13 | As far as John was concerned the Girls did not exist once they gave up dancing . |
| 14 | ‘ Evil can not exist where there is love , ’ said the Book . |
| 15 | The glass ceiling does not exist because they do n't let it . |
| 16 | THE North-South divide may not exist as we thought . |
| 17 | But the pot of gold simply does not exist as he has already discovered in trying to pay for Labour 's initial promises . |
| 18 | not to attempt to solve problems that do not exist or whose solution rests with human reorganization . |
| 19 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 20 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 21 | I 'm not out to if they 're going to claim on this diesel then that 's up to them but I 'm not going to have our lads or anybody else blamed for something which definitely does not exist and I shall tell as soon as I erm I meet him to have a chat with him again that he 's going along the wrong lines . |
| 22 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 23 | Then Blackadder could not think whether he had noticed the screen naturalist because his mind was primed with Ash 's image , or whether it had worked independently . |
| 24 | I do not think that Her Majesty 's inspectorate can look at that case . |
| 25 | Then somehow she was spreadeagled along the seat and he was half-kneeling , half -lying on top of her and suddenly she did not think that what was between her legs was his finger . |
| 26 | But we all we can do is reflect the position of women in society , and I do not think that what 's we 're about and I do not think it 's what the parliamentary Labour party . |
| 27 | He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there . |
| 28 | If Labour Members do not think that their party is the most cynical shower alive , I can give them a classic example from my county . |
| 29 | The comparison between Matisse and Picasso is true and present and I do not think that one can look at Matisse without thinking of Picasso and vice versa . |
| 30 | I do not think that one can be sufficiently environmentally friendly from one year to another . |