Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chance did not arise because Pascoe left in a purple-faced fury . |
| 2 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 3 | What we do wish to note is that other things being equal , the demand for bank lending will vary inversely with interest rates and that banks can not lend unless people wish to borrow . |
| 4 | That was accepting that the scheme , to which I did not think that reference had been made , might have been applied . |
| 5 | I do not think that Edwin set any great value on other people 's opinions . ’ |
| 6 | So A would be less than fully co-operative or rational if he did not think that B knew ( or could find out ) where he was . |
| 7 | The early Christians clearly did not think that Mary provided a role model for women and Christ for men ! |
| 8 | In this I do not think that Eliot exaggerated . |
| 9 | Questions must not presume that respondents have more knowledge than in fact they have , and must not lead respondents towards a particular answer . |
| 10 | Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns . |
| 11 | During a meeting held on Lake Titicaca in October 1989 , Paz Zamora was advised by President Alan García Pérez of Peru that Peru would not object if Chile granted landlocked Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific Ocean through territories formerly belonging to Peru . |
| 12 | Waco : TEXAS cult leader David Koresh said last night he and his heavily-armed followers would not surrender because God told him to wait . |
| 13 | We do not know whether angioplasty has an impact on the asymptomatic high-grade stenosis in the infarct territory . |
| 14 | She realised she simply did not know whether Amy had that sort of specialist skill . |
| 15 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |
| 16 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 17 | The results showed that 49% of farmers did not know that ADAS offered public good advice . |
| 18 | And do you not know that friars come and go … everywhere ! |
| 19 | But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ? |
| 20 | Anna shut the door again , she did not know that Mena had followed her , and walked round the house and came in by the terrace , a smile on her face . |
| 21 | She did not know that Clare had followed her round and sat watching her . |
| 22 | Sidacai would not know that Burun had been at the back of it all , of course , and either way he would owe his life to the Merkuts . |
| 23 | The girls did not know that Tess cried even more at this , and that she decided she would tell Angel all her history . |
| 24 | C informed of rights — said he did not have or want a solicitor — did not know that solicitor instructed by his family had enquired about him — whether subsequent confession should be excluded under PACE , s. 78 |
| 25 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 26 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 27 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 28 | He did not know if Sara knew about her little plantation . |
| 29 | A limited partnership is unlikely to have sufficient net assets to qualify ; for technical reasons , it would normally be funded predominantly by partnership loan and so will not qualify unless SFA agrees ( like IMRO ) that loans owing to partners can be ignored ; ( 3 ) A trustee of a trust with a portfolio of cash and FSA investments ( and so excluding land ) of at least £10,000,000 ; ( 4 ) An authorised person , an overseas person ( see page 31 above ) or a listed money market institution falling outside the above size test categories . |
| 30 | Herr Klein said he could not confirm that Mengele had returned twice to Germany during his years in South American exile — once for the funeral of his mother — but he knew that he had escaped to Argentina immediately after the war . |