Example sentences of "not [adj] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he was not sorry that she had left . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it 's not possible but it 's happened , ’ he said angrily . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that he was not guilty when he had not decided whether to use it or not . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England . |
| 5 | But she was n't made of brass , or ice either , although she tried to close her mind to what he was doing , to the gentle , unbearable pleasure of his lips moving slowly over hers , not cruel as they had been earlier , but coaxing , first lightly and then more demanding . |
| 6 | It 's not right and I have to lie for him ! |
| 7 | Well that 's not right cos I 've got that 's wrong . |
| 8 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 9 | I think I 'll stick with Lulu — I 'm not superstitious but it 's been so good for me up until now that I 'm not going to throw it away . |
| 10 | Buchholz has shown that non-prime odd numbers can give very good results , but are not reliable unless they have no divisors less than about 19 . |
| 11 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 12 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 13 | After the president 's office had released his controversial decree without any reference to a ‘ special order ’ of rule — the provision that had most alarmed the legislature — observers said it was not clear whether he had revised the decree to meet the demands of the Constitutional Court and parliament or had exaggerated its harshness in his weekend speech . |
| 14 | They were also resistant to becoming involved , although it was not clear whether anyone had tried hard to encourage them . |
| 15 | Whether the less common B II state actually exists in solution is not clear and it has been suggested that its appearance may be linked to crystal packing effects ( 3–5 ) . |
| 16 | This method was not popular when she had to employ an auditor ! ) |
| 17 | He attempted to subcontract in Switzerland but the manufacturers were not interested and he had to start a company in the UK for the purpose . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , we 're not interested if you 've broken some internal disciplinary code . |
| 19 | Maybe he 's not interested because he has never needed a doctor . |
| 20 | It is not wrongful if he has rightfully rejected the goods for breach of condition . |
| 21 | Looking at Damian Flint , she knew he was not different because he had power : he was different because he wanted it , fought for it , and knew how to use it . |
| 22 | You 're not English and you 've never even been to England . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 24 | You realise that this world is not easy and you have to fight if you want to survive in it , like all the way , non-stop . |
| 25 | It is not appropriate that we have a blanket policy at the strategic level and the need for this particular policy it would seem to me is unproven . |
| 26 | It is not perfect but I have no time to edit it further . |
| 27 | It was held by the House of Lords that the defendants were not negligent as they had conformed to a practice approved by one responsible body of medical opinion . |
| 28 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 29 | Some clearly shared David Stockman 's notoriously low estimate of Reagan 's intellect and were not convinced that he had an adequate understanding of the intricacies of economic policy-making . |
| 30 | Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers . |