Example sentences of "not but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A delegation of ten Nonconformist ministers even visited the bishops in the Tower on 10 June , saying " they could not but adhear to them as men constant in the Protestant faith " . |
| 2 | ‘ If she has indeed pointed the way , ’ said the abbot firmly , ‘ we can not but follow it . |
| 3 | Despite the attempt to treat the Pythagorean example as an exception , it can not but weaken Goody 's case . |
| 4 | Granted the systematic nature of language , the results of such a study as this can not but reflect on the quasi-nominal forms of the verb as a whole . |
| 5 | He could not but point out , however , that James 's absence had given Newcastle added confidence . |
| 6 | Whereas some sensitive clergy might feel that they could not but take account of recent scientific thinking , men of science who were churchmen would find it even harder to avoid : Faraday 's way of keeping a serene faith and active science apart was not so easy in 1870 . |
| 7 | So a historian who writes about ethnicity or nationalism can not but make a politically or ideologically explosive intervention . |
| 8 | His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted . |
| 9 | No well it 's not but trying to say |
| 10 | Teachers involved in such work could not but become aware of broad local issues as well as the hopes , fears and anxieties of individual families . |
| 11 | It can not but contribute to the impression of providential suitability of an Eastern European pope . |
| 12 | But even if they are qualified and on your establishment we can not but insist that they have a substantial teaching load as well , and I really do n't think that is any way to run a library … |
| 13 | Through observation of his own case , he became convinced that chronic muscle tension — a result of life 's physical and emotional stresses — which overlays and destroys natural poise we have as tiny children , and manifests itself in hunched shoulders , clenched jaws , a slouched or twisted spine , with , as often as not , the head held to one side , could not but interfere with the efficient functioning of the body , restricting breathing , circulation and digestion . |
| 14 | He never knew whether the gendarme understood him or not but felt relief flood over him when he was dismissed with a curt wave of the hand . |
| 15 | One can not but help notice the presence of other cultures when they come into contact with one 's own , because their influences are all-pervasive . |
| 16 | I am aware that the Institute is making efforts to bring about change , but I can not but help feel that my and my fellow graduates ' achievement is somewhat devalued by the continued willingness of the Institute to adopt almost as many new members as it can . |
| 17 | The extension of the project could not but mean bringing a mixture of the sexes to regular printing offices . |
| 18 | Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ? |
| 19 | They can not but strike one as unsuccessful , partly because ad hoc . |
| 20 | Without a shred of evidence he had employed an innuendo when what he should have said was that any normal English person could not but approve of the sight of young English lads in their uniforms , and would naturally pause to observe how they played a game . |
| 21 | Auer 's remark that " It seems to be a rash conclusion to prefer informants ' comments on co-participants ' behaviour to the analyst 's reconstructive work " ( Auer 1984b : 94 ) and Gumperz " view that " I think generally speaking we can not but use informants ' reports " ( 1971 : 112 ) . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , capitalism could not but undermine the agrarian bases of political stability , especially on the margins of , or within the dependent periphery of , the developed west . |
| 23 | ‘ John left late last night by the ‘ Potentate ’ for Sydney , without me , much to my sorrow ’ , she told her mother on 15 February 1839 , ‘ though I can not but admit the propriety of the arrangement . ’ |
| 24 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 25 | The august length of the Champs Elysées culminating in the sublime Arc de Triomphe with the eternal flame burning beneath it could not but fill me with reverential awe . |
| 26 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 27 | In oral cultures , he claims : ‘ The individual has little perception of the past except in terms of the present ; whereas an analysis of a literate society can not but enforce a more objective recognition of the distinction between what was and what is ’ ( 1968 , p. 34 ) ( my emphasis ) . |
| 28 | The relationship of literacy to these supposed changes from limited to more developed states is described in terms which implicitly tend towards determinism , despite explicit denials : literacy ‘ fosters ’ a ‘ spirit of enquiry ’ ( 1968 , p. 14 ) ; it ‘ can not but enforce ’ a more ‘ objective definition of what was and what is ’ ( ibid. p. 34 ) ; historical sensibility ‘ can hardly begin to operate without permanent written records ’ ( ibid. ) ; the existence of an elite group ‘ followed from the difficulty of the writing system ’ ( ibid. p. 37 ) ; ‘ logic ’ seemed to be ‘ a function of writing ’ ( 1977 , p. 11 ) etc . |
| 29 | There 's none that could not but agree |
| 30 | When the issue is examined in this way , one can not but agree with Brown 's conclusion that ‘ at best ( or worst ) taxation should have a relatively minor impact on the supply of labour , or work effort . ’ |