Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [vb pp] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
| 2 | And though for St Bernard incarceration at Cîteaux was the equivalent of perpetual crucifixion , the criminal 's reception into the monastic order may not have satisfied everyone 's sense of justice . |
| 3 | Nuclear explosives might not have killed anyone since Nagasaki in 1945 , but the use of nuclear fuel in a civil reactor had . |
| 4 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |
| 5 | Although I recognise that they may not have pleased everybody , an aim which I think the house would agree , would be impossible to achieve , I believe they have carried out their task in an objective and impartial way . |
| 6 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 7 | She wanted to get it out , get it over and done with , and she could not have said anything worse . |
| 8 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 9 | The defendants were in breach of their statutory duty in failing to provide safety belts but advanced evidence to show that the plaintiff would not have worn one if it had been provided . |
| 10 | And I think in a way absolute equality would 've provided a problem in terms of both paving the way for industrialization because you would have created a subsistence economy and that would not have helped anybody . |
| 11 | ‘ Because it would not have solved anything . |
| 12 | You will not have added anything of your own . |
| 13 | The pathetic official Home Office reaction , that they would not have released anything they had found , only compounds their breathtaking stupidity . |
| 14 | Derek Bentley could not have taken anybody anywhere ; he could barely get himself around . |
| 15 | Whether control of these facilities by the CPSU fulfilled this requirement is debatable , but before we jump to the conclusion that we could not have expected anything else from the Soviet system , consider the chequered history of the First Amendment to the United States constitution , which reads inter alia : ‘ congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech . ’ |
| 16 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 17 | Having said that their newly-released album Going Blank Again is likely to be one of the better buys of the year and tonight 's showing should not have put anyone off . |
| 18 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
| 19 | Even when he was older and realized that the nursing home had probably not been as bad as his childishly fastidious senses remembered it and that , anyway , she could not have afforded anything better , he was still unable to forgive her . |
| 20 | Mind you it was that early so they might not have had everything sort of on the go and stuff . |
| 21 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 22 | Had it not been for Helmut 's wealth and his travels , we should not have had anything like the variety of food Mme Guérigny put on her table . |
| 23 | ‘ You could not have found one more sequestered ’ , he said , ‘ — or more lovely . ’ |
| 24 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 25 | I mean if I took your line , your , your logic and maybe I 'm misinterpreting it , er we would not have changed anything when B E S came into , to our organization . |
| 26 | ‘ I got the impression she 'd not 'ave wanted anyone to know about it . |
| 27 | by the veins , there 's always an exception to every rule and the exception to that rule in the case of the heart and the lung connection is the pulmonary artery and the pulmonary vein , you may not get asked anything about this , but just in case you do it 's as well to know , in that instance the flow is reversed , in other words the pulmonary vein takes blood away from the heart and up to the lungs , and the pulmonary artery brings the oxygenated blood back down to the heart from the lungs , if you want to have a look at the diagrams for that and look at it yourself later on , there 's no need for you to get concerned or confused about this at all , there 's no need . |
| 28 | And the Gharrgoyle trailing me need n't heave meant anything special . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't have believed anyone in the world could eat the whole of a cake that size . ’ |
| 30 | So cold and unfeeling ; Eileen could n't have imagined anyone behaving in her own son 's home as if she were a stranger , making small talk and occasionally bestowing a few words on her daughter-in-law . |