Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change . |
| 2 | So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud . |
| 3 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 4 | Nevertheless I could not believe that Parliament intended such a construction because it will produce what I regard as such unfair and absurd results . |
| 5 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 6 | Again , tonight we could not prove that there was a hound . |
| 7 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 8 | His acceptance of the condition was made with an easy mind — he did n't feel that distributing a newspaper , even a banned one , would be considered a particularly heinous offence for a young girl , and anyway he could not imagine that he would be in any danger himself if he admitted knowledge of the basket 's contents . |
| 9 | It is true that you are sitting etc. , you believe that you are sitting etc. , if you were not sitting etc. you would not believe that you are , and if you were sitting etc. you would believe that you are . |
| 10 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 11 | However , although ‘ action ’ is to be construed liberally I can not accept that it is wide enough to embrace a non-legal process such as a statutory demand . |
| 12 | After complaining they had focused too much on the warring Wales ' angle , the official was challenged : ‘ Surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Eventually I said angrily that ‘ surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 14 | And perhaps , today we would not say that men actually hate women , but there are n't is n't much obli , er evidence of their respect . |
| 15 | The gaslight flickered in the alley — and then I could not bear that he should be out of my sight . |
| 16 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 17 | If one big building society can fall foul of the rules , then you can not assume that any lender will get its advertising right . |
| 18 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 19 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 20 | If we do not know whether they are representative , then we can not claim that our conclusions have any relevance to anybody else at all . |
| 21 | but she 's had quite a lot of training in other things actually and with the man marketing department that they 've got there they might not need that the thing coming up I 've just had what 's interesting about that and what I do n't like about it is not to because I have a lot of respect for her . |
| 22 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 23 | Mr Clarke said later that no decision had been taken to do away with the pay formula , but he added : ‘ However I can not agree that firefighters should be an exception to the Government 's policy that in the current pay round the rises of all public sector employees should not exceed 1.5 per cent and that there could not be any catching up settlement thereafter . ’ |
| 24 | Yet she could not deny that her heart tilted inside her as he reached for her hand once more and assured her , ‘ I 'm as free as you are . |
| 25 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 26 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 27 | Seaside wear seemed inappropriate , yet they could not see that they had reason to mourn the passing of Sir Thomas Throgmorton . |
| 28 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 29 | She had been so pleasant since Donald 's death that there were times when he could not believe that he was planning to murder her . |
| 30 | Yet he could not believe that the KGB could have discovered his one small secret . |