Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 2 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 3 | These women do not feel called to the seclusion of their sisters inside the enclosure , who never leave their convent , but feel called to serve them and act as essential intermediaries between the cloistered nuns and the world . |
| 4 | Although by his own admission , Nicholson had ‘ done all the drugs ’ he did not become addicted to any . |
| 5 | Catholic priests came to the Acadians from New France , and tried to make sure that the Acadians would not become reconciled to British rule . |
| 6 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 7 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 8 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 9 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 10 | Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions . |
| 11 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 12 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
| 13 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 14 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 15 | You would not have gone to them with a theory of the death of Jesus — you would have gone to them with great wonder saying : ‘ It is incredible , but our Lord is alive . |
| 16 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 17 | He would not have gone to Munich himself , he said , but he praised Chamberlain 's courage for acting differently . |
| 18 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 19 | She would not have gone to bed and she knew it . |
| 20 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 21 | If Cooke P. had been aware of the true position he could not have denied to the petitioner an appeal to the Board as of right on the ground that the cancellation issue remained alive . |
| 22 | Feherty took 40 for the same stretch then declared ‘ I have only just got over influenza and I should not have travelled to Portugal . |
| 23 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 24 | While manufacturers go to great lengths to produce the many excellent ‘ artificial ’ diets without which the fishkeeping hobby would certainly not have developed to today 's high standards , it is up to the fishkeeper to look more closely at the food requirements of his fish and provide what is necessary . |
| 25 | Modern science is critically dependent on high-performance computing ; studies of the world 's changing climate , structural engineering , and medical imaging simply could not have progressed to their present state without access to the sort of computing power that can only be provided by parallel machines . |
| 26 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 27 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 28 | Kubrick presumably thinks that scientists , engineers and astronauts are dull dogs , a perception ( or rather , opinion , since it 's often untrue ) that he may not have imparted to Clarke . |
| 29 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 30 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |