Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 2 | The only thing that Trolls can not survive is fire . |
| 3 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 4 | But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below . |
| 5 | What the media should not do is cause friction and division within society and especially it should not encourage opposition or resistance to government decrees . |
| 6 | One area where it er absolutely does not work is sex . |
| 7 | All that liberals can not tolerate is pretension to infallibility . |
| 8 | if it existed , would also have been a causal circumstance for c , and , we might add , would not have been part of a causal sequence including cc . |
| 9 | In the morning she wondered if her inspection of the villa 's water-works might not have been part of a dream and looked carefully to confirm that the letter to Signora Kettering was still in her handbag . |
| 10 | This would not have been part of the usual flight to Los Angeles . |
| 11 | ‘ I had too much respect for Yule Craig and would not have been part of anything that let him down . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll do for me , I 've always voted Labour , ’ said the fan , who may or may not have been colour blind . |
| 13 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 14 | Dinosaurs could not have been moribund because they were still diversifying into new orders . |
| 15 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 16 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 17 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 18 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
| 19 | Altogether I probably interviewed about five hundred persons ( members , parents , deprogrammers , anti-cultists , media etc ) , but not all these interviews were conducted in a systematic way — that is to say , they were with people with whom I happened to make contact , and may not have been representative of the Unification population as a whole . |
| 20 | ‘ Without your action there would not have been blood , Coptic blood , on the streets . ’ |
| 21 | An example where the latter part of s.3(1) did not apply is Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 ( DC ) . |
| 22 | The only concession I could not get was leave to see him alone , but it 's plain I should have got nowhere with him even so . |
| 23 | What courage can not afford is recklessness . |
| 24 | The only thing we do n't know is motive . |
| 25 | The one thing he could n't do was sell or get rid of them . |
| 26 | What the bird could n't do was measure the impact of the raid on Libyan morale . |
| 27 | What you wo n't feel are shock waves blasting through your body . |
| 28 | Perhaps the other girl did n't mind being part of a deal over a vineyard . |
| 29 | ‘ What you do n't like is commitment , ’ said Emily . |
| 30 | Except that she did n't like being fuel for his amusement . |