Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
| 2 | I do not consider those to be proper reasons for the holding of an inquest . |
| 3 | Pilate obviously did not consider this to be a threat to Roman authority and tried to have him released . |
| 4 | In accounting , we simply do not know enough to be able to measure this . |
| 5 | Naturally you should not expect this to be a full consultation , but it should give you time to see how you relate to the particular therapist concerned and how much confidence you feel in him . |
| 6 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 7 | But he did not feel silly about being so careful . |
| 8 | It was surprising that she did not feel embarrassed at being caught in floods of tears . |
| 9 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 10 | I do not believe that to be so . |
| 11 | Many technical experts in this country do not believe this to be sensible and know that similar views exist amongst their European colleagues . |
| 12 | Clearly , Devlin does not believe this to be possible , whereas Hart insists that it must be . |
| 13 | The Committee point out that a ‘ general ban on twin-tracking would deprive 3 million people of the right to be a councillor ’ ( Widdicombe 1986:112 ) and they did not believe this to be justified . |
| 14 | In practice , we do not believe this to be sufficiently important to invalidate comparisons . |
| 15 | However , care should be taken that they do not lose their exceptional hardiness and thriftiness in pursuit of greater yields , and also that they do not become extinct through being crossed with Friesians . |
| 16 | ‘ He will not become sounder by being mistrusted , ’ he said sharply . |
| 17 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 18 | Like many of the parents , Rita readily agrees with the professional maxim that ‘ It 's natural to feel shocked ’ , but she clearly does not take this to be some scientific and objective concomitant of the situation , something in her genes . |
| 19 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 20 | I can not think of any flower that does not press better for being taken apart , although of course you will have to spend time putting it back together again when you want to use it . |
| 21 | ‘ Northampton is an expanding area and wages for care assistants can not match those to be found in industry , ’ says Bill Aitken , the department 's operations manager . |
| 22 | Changes in stimulus distinctiveness might , indeed , be in part responsible for the development of different patterns of overt behaviour to the different training stimuli , but the mere fact that discrimination learning occurs can not prove this to be so . |
| 23 | Sally-Anne could not get used to being known so abruptly by her surname . |
| 24 | You must make your solicitor realize that I can not allow Norman to be hurt . |
| 25 | At such moments it did not seem better to be dead than Red , neither did it seem plausible that there was a godless conspiracy at work wherever one looked . |
| 26 | As Hargreaves ( 1988 ) points out , arts education would be greatly assisted by the development of a ‘ balanced arts ’ programme , but the necessary ground work on which this could be based does not seem likely to be financed . |
| 27 | We do not find this to be the case . |
| 28 | We do not find this to be the case . |
| 29 | Although the application of NIPPV on a general ward has been described as a difficult and time-consuming procedure for nurses we did not find this to be the case . |
| 30 | However , I must confess that I do not find this to be a serious problem at least , not yet . |