Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genius is precisely the word one does not feel tempted to use . |
| 2 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 3 | And even if they are , he does not feel bound to like them . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , never with any heart to deprive you , ’ protested Herluin , ‘ but in compassion for a monastic house brought to ruin might she not feel bound to exert herself to deliver ? |
| 5 | Julian did not feel called to reform the church or to take part in public life : she remained a loyal daughter of Mother Church and stayed in seclusion for the rest of her life . |
| 6 | Like Hsu , Fitzgerald had been a pupil of Malinowski , but he did not feel compelled to turn the Min Chia into Chinese . |
| 7 | Unfortunately that was insufficient to keep Ballingall employed , for the General was not on good terms with Ballingall , and clearly did not feel compelled to serve Lord Melville , and it was the latter whom Ballingall chose to blame for his misfortunes , complaining of the injustice of this treatment when ‘ Lord Melville never had a more staunch friend , nor strinuous supporter in the district of these Boroughs ’ . |
| 8 | Also on the visiting critics ' itinerary were such exotica as a barbecue dinner and a visit to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ; your correspondent , a native Texan , had not been to the rodeo since 1961 , when he shook Roy Rogers 's hand , but none the less did not feel compelled to spice up this report with such familiar Texas seasoning . |
| 9 | He writes that this evidence , together with several other timings in crucial copies and printer 's proofs of the score , reveals that ‘ during Mahler 's lifetime , performances of the Adagietto by the composer as well as by his close colleagues averaged about eight minutes … if Mahler 's timings reflected only his mood at a particular concert one could understand that some conductors might not feel compelled to follow his tempos . |
| 10 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 11 | The one thought I could not tolerate kept bubbling to the surface : had I really swallowed it ? |
| 12 | The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts . |
| 13 | Without himself he would have died , for which else , of them all , would not have stopped running after such punishment ? |
| 14 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 15 | Secondly , on the broader ground that the legislature could not have intended to give power to a court of summary jurisdiction to control nuisances from such works . |
| 16 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 17 | The list could be expanded to incorporate any treaty which provides for mutuality , reciprocity , or where the personal identity of the other party is important , for then , by definition the parties can not have intended to allow assignment . |
| 18 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Now these and similar comments would require careful scrutiny if the thrust of the argument were to the effect that Parliament could not have intended to establish an inquisitorial régime of this kind in relation to serious or complex fraud alone . |
| 20 | The point is , of course , that B might not have intended to communicate the assumption expressed by [ 15c ] . |
| 21 | After temporary repairs the ship set out for the United States on a voyage it would not have made had the collision not occurred . |
| 22 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 23 | However great the risks of parting with one 's collection , Gould could not have hoped to carry with him from Hobart the enormous quantities of skins , skeletons , eggs , nests , plants , and seeds he had amassed . |
| 24 | No Englishman could now have presented himself in Vienna without attracting the attention of the Grand Army , and with his accent he could not have hoped to pass for Austrian . |
| 25 | It will not have escaped notice that minuses predominate towards the right hand side of the table . |
| 26 | Roderick Random need not have elected to travel from Newcastle to London by road . |
| 27 | ‘ I would not have wanted to see either player carted off to hospital because of a tackle like that which was dangerously high . |
| 28 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |
| 29 | Zuwaya said they would not have wanted to win an election that way ; and some Magharba — admittedly few , the majority being unquestioningly jubilant — said that just ends had been achieved by improper means . |
| 30 | If there were one team in the First Division that Forest would not have wanted to face without Pearce it would be Manchester United , who have , in Lee Sharpe , Ryan Giggs and Andrei Kanchelskis , three of the best wingers in the country . |