Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 2 | This is not a criticism of the theories in themselves , but if discourse analysis is to incorporate them , and to demonstrate their relevance to the language learner , it will need to test their value in interpreting language which has actually occurred ; to select what is relevant from context rather than invent a few elements of it ; to account for writing as well as speech , and to account for discourse where there is no constant feedback from the receiver who may not even be present . |
| 3 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 4 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 5 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 6 | They are also of considerable assistance to your solicitors/Counsel who may not otherwise be familiar with the locus , type of machinery involved , etc . |
| 7 | In fact , they may enable some people to play who may not otherwise be able to do so . |
| 8 | The jobless executives could be on hire for as little as £50 a week to firms who may not otherwise be able to afford to devote full-time staff to improving the skills of the workforce . |
| 9 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 10 | For example , a district county council has responsibilities to : its electors and ratepayers ( who may not necessarily be the same group ) ; the county council ; central government departments ( in particular the Department of the Environment ) and Parliament ; not to mention pressure groups such as the local Chamber of commerce and local action groups . |
| 11 | a client , who may not necessarily be a KPMG audit client . |
| 12 | This is designed for those applicants who may not necessarily possess any of the qualifications usually presented by mature students , but who show evidence of appropriate achievement either in a related professional field or through other types of intellectual endeavour . |
| 13 | The mother 's offer to cook the lunch may be a reassuring sign of the familiar to her son who may not long have departed from the parental home . |
| 14 | To this must be added the nature of the claimants themselves who may not fully comprehend the mechanics of such an appeal process . |
| 15 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 16 | The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves . |
| 17 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |
| 18 | Among ERA stockists — who may not always have it on every day — are the Bon Accord and Tennent 's Bar in Glasgow ; the Auld Hoose , Kinghorn ; the Woodside Inn , Blairgowrie ; and Betty Nicols , Kirkcaldy . |
| 19 | It aims to encourage young athletes from Hong Kong , China and Scotland , who might not otherwise reach their full potential , by bringing them together through their respective Amateur Athletic Associations . |
| 20 | In this exercise , students were : introduced to Prestel as an integral part of their course introduced to Prestel in the context of information technology using the word processing package relating the exercise to a real situation planning how to find information involved in scanning and interpreting information The library was again cooperating with a teacher in planning the exercise ; demonstrating a new source of information to students ; enabling students who might not otherwise do so , to use new technology in a way which is related to their curricular and personal needs . |
| 21 | The project coordinator Sue Torrance believes this would be a serious loss to the local community , for it has reached people who might not otherwise have received help . |
| 22 | It is also seen as a way in to paid CAB work for black workers who might not normally be economically able to volunteer but through circumstances beyond their control find that they have no choice . |
| 23 | And the traders themselves told us that , by calling weekly and establishing a personal relationship with their customers , they can rely on collecting debts from people who might not reliably send off payments , say to an H P firm . |
| 24 | Police are now anxious to trace the buyers who might not yet realise the cars they are driving are stolen . |
| 25 | This was extremely harsh on the innocent purchaser who bought goods in good faith from a mercantile agent and who could not reasonably have suspected that anything was wrong . |
| 26 | The following sections look at the outreach work that is taking place around the country to make the CAB more accessible to groups who could not otherwise easily reach a bureau . |
| 27 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 28 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money . |
| 29 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money' |
| 30 | The two stallions who could not even do the test had previously shown themselves to be intelligent by their rapid ability to learn when they were broken in . |