Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 2 | The alternative may be the public compliance combined with private doubt of the boy who could not accept that the Earth was round . |
| 3 | I 'm thinking of the other poor chaps who might not feel that they 're getting cut glass decanters . |
| 4 | In such circumstances one can not assume that there is a single goal , such as profit maximization , that represents the interests of the firm . |
| 5 | Given that you can draw all sorts of amazing objects you might not think that you need to edit them much but IntelliDraw has some powerful editing tools . |
| 6 | The Shah himself could not believe that Hassan would throw him out . |
| 7 | The Primitive Methodists , whose work was mostly amongst working people , admitted with a sorrow they could not hide that ‘ the growing worldliness of men needs a faithful and independent ministry ; the increased educational facilities and the advance of science challenge us to put the best talent we can produce into the pulpit ’ . |
| 8 | Without such concepts I can not see that human infants could acquire a language ’ ( 1982 : 47 ) . |
| 9 | Until almost the last day I could not believe that we were really leaving Abyssinia for good , that we should not be coming back . |
| 10 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
| 11 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 12 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 13 | This was ‘ due entirely to the schoolmasters who will not permit that children in their schools use any but the proper names ’ . |
| 14 | A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity , whether he travels or not ; but one of superior talent ( which without impiety I can not deny that I possess ) will go to seed , if he always remains in the same place . |
| 15 | On a first consideration one would not think that there would be appreciable stresses parallel to the crack surface but on reflection it will be seen that this must always be so . |
| 16 | With the best will in the world I can not imagine that a meat man would have the time , or that an un-horsy policeman would risk life and limb to scrub the mud from the hooves of every animal which roughly fits the description of a stolen one . |
| 17 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 18 | ( Often the term is used in a rather derogatory way , as ‘ mere housekeeping ’ — albeit then mainly by male biochemists who may not recognize that housekeeping is a pretty serious business ! ) |
| 19 | what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed , but because it 's a retrospective analysis you can not say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours . |
| 20 | Although the discussion of this process is beyond the scope of this book we must not forget that the whole outline of history is sketched in The German Ideology for two purposes and not for itself . |
| 21 | And this is a useful contribution I can not believe that the book jacket blurb was seen by Barry Gale ; it informs us that ‘ In 1859 , when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , he had no more evidence in support of his theory than did the creationists … ’ which is a caricature of Gale 's quite unexceptionable thesis . |
| 22 | ‘ In the meantime we must not forget that we have tough targets to meet for the current year . |
| 23 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 24 | Public dispositions raise additional questions , for where there is a public interest we need not suppose that all was left to regulation by the remedies of private law . |
| 25 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |