Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb mod] not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 2 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 3 | Release to college was , it was said , out of the question : they just could not be spared . |
| 4 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 5 | They thus can not be occupied . |
| 6 | The strands are so fine that they usually can not be detected by cetacean sonar , unlike the older type of multifilament cotton nets . |
| 7 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 8 | They also can not be compressed even under quite high pressures . |
| 9 | They probably would not be treated . ’ |
| 10 | Whatever is claimed of these traditional philosophical mysteries , including the claim that they enter into mental events , they surely can not be regarded as parts of them . |
| 11 | They certainly can not be turned into the stated goal of an academic programme . |